Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
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 on the main blog.
Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson
Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson
GOODNESS ME SAYS THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
I truly cannot believe that it has been a whole month since I became a widower. In some ways the last four weeks have been taking forever, and in other ways it has gone past in the blinking of an eye. Things are poddling on here, and I still have nothing really to report. Carl is due later, which will be nice, and Graham is going away for a few days with his family tomorrow. I am still resisting the temptation to drink too much or do anything else of that ilk, and am mostly writing or reading.
If you enjoyed ‘Fleabag’ may I suggest that you check out ‘The Duchess’ on Netflix. I enjoyed it immensely despite all the characters being young enough to be my children. Elegantly written, and often an appalling taste. What else can one ask for?
For those of you who watched the funeral at the same time as we did it and complained that you could not hear my voice, it appears that the floor microphones were switched on for the recording but not for the broadcast but you can see it with my voice restored now for the next 20 odd days at www.cfz.org.uk/corinna. an edited version with the copyrighted music removed will be up permanently on CFZtv once I am brave enough to edit it.
If you wish to remember Corinna in a formal sense, Donations to North Devon Hospice, please. They were absolutely wonderful to us all, and I cannot praise them highly enough; they deserve everything we can give them. I will certainly be doing something from the CFZ for them soon.
Many thanks to all of you who have written to me offering condolences and kindness. I am totally overwhelmed by your love and friendship. I will write back to you all, but my emotions are too raw at the moment.
But we do have a new episode of OTT
And a new edition of A&M for you
Like Marge Simpson, I never really knew what it meant, but keep on trucking!
The Gonzo Books site is now pretty well done, and there is also a new CFZ Publcations website at https://baboon.wixsite.com/website 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:
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO SQUINT
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And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
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:
This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as The psychogeography of the death of Jimi Hendrix, Mother Gong, Elegant Simplicity, Hawkwind, Bill and Ted and oodles more, animal rescue with PAART, Reminiscences from Tony Klinger, and other stuff of interest.
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Tony Klinger, and C.J Stone, but Mr Biffo, and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!
..And the last few issues are:
Issue 405-6 (Corinna)
Issue 403-4 (Covid Conspiracies)
Issue 401-2 (The Westway)
Issue 399-40 (Kosmik Ken)
Issue 397-8 (Liz Lenten)
Issue 395-6 (Diane Warren/Sharon Farber)
Issue 393-4 (Daria Kulesh)
Issue 391-2 (Little Richard)
Issue 389-90 (Ian Anderson)
Issue 387-8 (A Guy called Gerald)
Issue 385-6 (Tony Henderson)
Issue 383-4 (London Remixed)
">Issue 381-2 (Greta)
Issue 379-80 (Andrew Weatherall)
Issue 377-8 (The Future)
Issue 375-6 (Big Sean)
Issue 373-4 (End of the World)
Issue 371-2 (New Year)
Issue 369-70 (Christmas)
Issue 367-8 (Register to Vote)
Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 363-4 (Focus)
Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
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:
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.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* 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 a recently widowed old hippy of 61 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 a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG
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 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.
- University of Memphis Please Stop Using a Live Tiger as Your Mascot!
- BRAZIL: Jaguar rescue
- INDIA: Another leopard rescue
- MALAYSIA: Clouded leopard escapes
- USA, UTAH: Cougar in backyard
BIG CAT ROUND UP INFO DUMP
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.
CANADA: Grand Forks Cougar leaves dead fawn on a ...
CANADA, ALBERTA: Man charged with harassing a cougar
USA, UT: Board approves cat, cougar hunting regs
INDIA: No leopard in Madukkarai
INDIA: Tiger kills three cows in Mutharam
USA, CALIFORNIA: The return of P22
USA, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Serval missing
CANADA, YUKON: Cougar sightings continue in Piedmont
INDIA: Lion saved from electrocution
INDIA: Tiger found dead
INDIA: Two rusty spotted kittens brought to SGNP
UK ZOO: West Midland Safari Park confirms white ti...
UK ZOO: first Amur tiger habitat in UK
SOUTH AFRICA: Leopard Walking Across Lodge
INDIA: Bera's free-roaming leopards
MEXICO: Woman sparks outrage after walking her pe...
UK ZOO: UK's 'worst zoo' to reopen
USA, Tenessee: Tiger spotted
NEW ZEALAND: The Canterbury Big Cats
USA, ALASKA: Lions in Anchorage
USA, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Serval home
USA, TENNESSEE: deputy's encounter with possible ...
INDIA: Man killed by leopard
UK: Girl, 16, mauled by mountain lion being kept i...
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 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.
THYLACINES IN THE NEWS
Garry Linnell: The mogul, the tiger, and the million-dollar bet that never paid out I'd just told him I wanted to offer a $1.25 million reward for the capture of a thylacine, the legendary marsupial believed to have fallen extinct more than ... | ||||
National Threatened Species Day It is held each year to commemorate the sad death of the last thylacine known to be alive in 1936. This Threatened Species Day was marked with a ... |
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