CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 04/24/20

Friday, April 24, 2020

Gonzo Weekly #387/8

Gonzo Weekly #387/8
THE UP AGAINST IT ISSUE
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In yet another singularly non-standard issue for singularly non-standard times we meet TA Guy Called Gerald, lee Martin and Tony Worthington, we read a set of remixes of classic childeren's literature, The Boy Freeman watches JoJo Rabbit, Jon muses on Fake News, we talk about the global pandemic which currently threatens the wellbeing of the human race (WE DO THAT QUITE A LOT), we see how someone living in a van has a band, and we ask about Charlie Watts' percussion, and we give you a list of free stuff which artists are generously giving away to help boost global morale at this horrible time. And much more...

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and C.J.Stone, although Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and Roy Weard, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Lockdown, fake news, Sam Wilkinson, Undying Heads, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Phil Collins, Genesis, Marianne Faithfull, Robert Plant, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Alan Dearling, Gerald Simpson, The Golden Lion, Pete Duggal, Matt Hum, Russ Marland Todmorden, Exhalers, Tinfoils, Solar, Bev, Richard Muirhead, Lee Martin, Kev Rowland, Richard Freeman, Friday Night Progressive, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Chynna Marie Rogers, Edward Dobkins Jr., Richard Lowe Teitelbaum, Andy González, Jymie Merritt, (James Raleigh Merritt), George Brock, Liu Dehai, Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE, Antônio Carlos Moreira Pires (aka Moraes Moreira), Ryo Kawasaki, Olatunji Akin Euba, Terry Doran, Guiseppi Logan, Arlene Saunders, Matthew Seligman, Gene Shay (born Ivan Shaner), Daniel Bevilacqua, Edward James Cooley, Henry Grimes, Leon Konitz, Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE, Derek Jones, Ronan O'Rahilly, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, PAART, Andy Worthington, A Life in Activism, Addyction, The Ardarna, Alexander Nakarada, The Already Dead, Gunpowder Gray, Into the Cave, Mob Rules, Blight House, Richard Freeman, JoJo Rabbit, Tony Klinger, C.J. Stone, Martin Springett, Julia Jones, A Ravelled Flat, The Salt-Stained Book, Ghosting Home

..And the last few issues are:

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.

Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson

Bigfoot History: Tennessee, Illinois & Connecticut...

Bigfoot: What Does the Government Know?

Bigfoot In Arizona: The Mogollon Monster

VIDEO - Bigfoot Sighting Encounter Interview with ...

10 Ways the Original Bigfoot Video Shaped the 70s

PODCAST - Bigfoot, UFO's, and Cryptids part 4 with...

OHIO - Strange Large Creature Lurking In Salt Fork...

FACEBOOK - Bigfoot, Aliens & UFOs: Oh My!

VIDEO - Expedition Texas: Hunting Bigfoot

PODCAST - Edward Monge Researcher Of The Unknown A...

10 Destinations Where You Can Spot Bigfoot and His...

FACEBOOK - Drone footage captures Bigfoot

Illinois Sasquatch: Bigfoot Encounters

BLOG - Bigfoot Eyewitness Episode 227

PODCAST - Bigfoot Eyewitness Episode 226

BIG CAT ROUND UP

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.

LAKE AND SEA MONSTER NEWS

The hunt for Lake and Sea Monsters is probably the most iconic branch of Cryptozoology. Following our successful Mystery Cat and BHM Study Groups, we feel that these sightings should also be archived and published in a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead

Loch Ness Monster hunters spend lockdown looking f...

Was The Loch Ness Monster Inspired By Earthquakes?...

Famed Loch Ness Monster photo published on this da...

10 Ocean Mysteries That Still Boggle The Mind - Lo...

More on the Irishman who clams to have spotted Nes...

PODCAST - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

This Week's Weird News 4/17/20 | KFI AM 640

Is this a legitimate Loch Ness Monster sonar image...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS CLOSE TO THE EDGE, DOWN BY THE RIVER

The Gonzo Daily: Friday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk

And so these strange times get stranger, and we all become ever more disconnected from any semblance of reality (Whatever that is). And today, I have had one of the weirdest experiences of my life. Last night, for some reason I have not been able to work out, I lost my wedding ring. I haven’t lost weight, and I never take it off. So why it fell off I have no idea. I was, unsurprisingly, very unhappy about.

And then, only a few minutes after having a word with Saint Anthony about the subject this morning, it turned up in the middle of a patch of floor where it had not been only a few minutes earlier.

I am still awestruck.

One thing that may cheer you up is that there is a new episode of On The Track Xtra out:
https://tinyurl.com/y77b5gb4

The eagle-eyed amongst you will probably have noticed that the Gonzo Multimedia websites have changed and are in a process of flux, so there are no individual sales links at the moment. But check out www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk for a thing of wonder. The Gonzo Books site is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authors who need personal pages. You can find it ay www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:

"These links do not work,
now but they will do so soon,
we apologise"

YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-…

Blessed be.

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/gonzo-track-of-day-…
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Daevid Allen - Only make l...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/merrell-wayne-fankh…
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser Presented with the Albert...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/04/ionas-epic-box.h…
IONA'S EPIC BOX
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/frank-zappa-sex-tap…
FRANK ZAPPA: Sex Tape Shenanegans
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/thom-world-poet-dai…
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

THE GONZO PRIVACY POLICY
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And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
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And, yes,
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AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

Our webTV show:
https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/…/a-notion-of-shopkeepers…
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

Gonzo Weekly #385/6
THE SOCIAL DISTANCNG ISSUE
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In this singularly non-standard issue for singularly non-standard times we meet Tony Henderson and his models of rock stars past and present, we hear about how Dave Brock from Hawkwind has shared his creative process across the aether, Jon muses on Morrissey, and again ask whether art is tainted by the moral behaviour of the artist, talk about the global pandemic which currently threatens the wellbeing of the human race (WE DO THAT QUITE A LOT), we see how someone living in a van who happened to be in Morocco at the start of lockdown is coping, and we give you a list of free stuff which artists are generously giving away to help boost global morale at this horrible time. And much more...

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Frontieres, AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, although C.J.Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and Roy Weard, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

This issue features:

Morrissey, Sam Wilkinson. Kev Rowland, Alan Dearling, Adam Smith, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Bob Andy (ne Keith Anderson CD), Mirna Doris (née Annunziata Chiarelli), Delroy Washington, Bert Olav Holmquist, Martin MBE (born William Wylie MacPherson), Joe Logan Diffie, Alan Merrill (born Allan Preston Sachs), Paravai Muniyamma, Jan Howard (born Lula Grace Johnson), Louie “L.A.” Kouvaris, Wallace Roney, Clementino Rodrigues (better known by the nickname Riachão), Louise Ebrel, Rafael Berrio, Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci), Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr., John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli, Adam Lyons Schlesinger, Patrick Francfort (aka Patrick Gibson), Alex Harvey (born Thomas Alexander Harvey), Helin Bölek, Karuranga Virgile (aka as DJ Miller), Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Tony Henderson, Addyction, The Adarna, The Already Dead, Alexander Nakarada, Gunpowder Gray, Into the Cave, Mob Rules, Blight House, Carl Marshall, Geordie Jackson, Dark Matters, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Thom the World Poet

..And the last few issues are:

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 60 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, one totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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Man found guilty of smuggling £50m worth of live e...

The endangered wolf that walked 8,712 miles to fin...

Why are these sharks doing the 'pipi' dance?

Fireflies face extinction risk - and tourists are ...

AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)