Wednesday, June 02, 2021

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS

 The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

Today, Graham is in town buying a new printer and getting some groceries. Sarah is doing clever things around the house making things better and nicer, Louis has proudly shown me the latest version of the new website which will be up sooner rather than later, and I am sitting here in my armchair surrounded by computer things, doing my best to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st-century when I was quite happy living in the late 19th. The telephone hasn’t stopped ringing and I have been sober for two weeks.
Bah!
The latest episode of On the Track went up on Saturday and features the gang returning to the Forest of Dean and the latest nonsense about the Loch Ness monster being a cetacean stiffy, is currently the second fastest set of viewing figures that we’ve ever done. So we must be doing something right.
It features:
- Mike Davis in the studio
- The singing dog of North Devon
- The team return to the Forest of Dean
- Hunting for big cats in the Forest
- Could this be a big cat den?
- Carl recaps the FoD project
- Dr. Charles Paxton at the WW
- Whale Penises - an explanation for some long-necked sea serpents?
- Schlong necked sea monsers
- Could this be an explanation for the Loch Ness monster?
- Topography of Inverness examined
So, if you want to attend a visual entertainment consisting of hard science and a smattering of weird shit, interspersed with us dicking about in an increasingly surreal manner, check the latest episode out:
And here we have another shameless plug:
My book ‘Wild Colonial Boy’ is the story of my early life in Hong Kong, and how I first became interested in Natural History, and more specifically cryptozoology, and there are several very little known cryptozoological mysteries discussed therein. It is very much like a darker analog of Gerald Durrell’s memoirs of his childhood in Greece, and I would’ve called it “My Family and other Sociopaths” if it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t want to be sued either by Durrell’s estate, or my family. You can find out more and buy it signed from the link below:
C’mon, make a curmudgeonly old bugger happy.
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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:
Gonzo Weekly #443/4
THE CHICKEN SUIT ISSUE
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 Discordianism, New World Ordure, Del Bartle founder of The Sid Presley Experience, Wounded Buffalo Beats, Anarchy in Hebden Bridge and oodles more...
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, and Mr Biffo, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and C.J Stone, but Mr Biffo, Tony Klinger 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 443-4 (Rubber chicken)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 439-40 (Prince Phillip)
Issue 437-8 (Yes)
Issue 435-36 (Hawkwind)
Issue 433-34 (Freda Payne)
Issue 431-32 (Kosheen)
Issue 429-30 (Ocean Aid)
Issue 427-8 (2021 ia Bosch)
Issue 425-6 (Paul McCartney)
Issue 423-4 (KLF)
Issue 421-22 (Christmas)
Issue 419-20 (John Lennon)
Issue 417-8 (gIG)
Issue 415-16 (Phideaux)
Issue 413-14 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 411-12 (Extinction Rebellion)
Issue 409-10 (Covid)
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

 

  • FAIRY DUST
  • LINDWORM: WATER CREATURE OF SCANDINAVIA
  • MURRAY MONSTER
  • NAIN ROUGE
  • BLACK DOGS IN BRITAIN
  • CRYPTIDS OF ASIA
  • ANSWER TO MYSTERY OF LOCH NESS
  • BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA MAY INCREASE
  • PREHISTORIC ANIMAL CARVINGS
  • PURPLE-RINGED GROUND DOVE MAY SURVIVE
  • UFOs - NEWS ABOUT THEM ON THE HORIZON
  • ACCOUNTS OF REPTILIAN ENCOUNTERS
  • WHAT CRYPTIDS ARE IN WYOMING?
  • MONSTER OF LAKE TOTA
  • GHOST COWS
  • OGOPOGO VIDEO
  • SAZAE-ONI: JAPANESE YOKAI
  • TWO NEW SPECIES OF FLYING SQUIRREL
  • DID JOHN KEEL MAKE STUFF UP?
  • UK'S PARANORMAL TRIANGLE
  • BIGFOOT IN OHIO
  • IS THE ATLAS BEAR EXTINCT?
  • BEWARE OF THE MERMAIDS
  • WAS A MEGALODON PHOTOGRAPHED?
  • FONTANA MONSTER SIGHTINGS
  • OKLAHOMA BIGFOOT BOUNTY
  • CANADA'S BERMUDA TRIANGLE
  • TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER WITH UNKNOWN CRYPTID
  • ENCOUNTER WITH A KAPPA
  • DO PHENOMENA ON SKINWALKER RANCH FOLLOW INVESTIGAT...
  • SEARCHING FOR BIGFOOT
  • UNIDENTIFIED ANIMAL IN MINNESOTA
  • BRIAN McCLEARY AND THE SEA MONSTER
  • WAS IT A MEGALODON?
  • CHOCOLATE FROG SPECIES DISCOVERED
  • UNUSUAL ANIMAL IN INDIA
  • BIGFOOT SIGHTING & ELECTRONIC EFFECTS
  • ARE THERE FAIRIES IN YOUR HOME?
  • GHOSTS IN WORLD WAR I
  • BLACK ANNIS
  • PAMOLA - LEGENDARY BIRD OF MAINE
  • NOT TIGER KINGS
  • FIVE BIGFOOT THEORIES
  • RAMIDREJU - SPANISH LEGENDARY BEAST
  • BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS ON TAPE
  • MERMAIDS IN TEXAS?
  • AGROFORESTRY AND WATER CLEANING
  • BEAST OF BUSCO'S HOME FOR SALE
  • FAIRY RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANIMALS
  • BEAR LAKE MONSTER
  • BURRA HAAF MONSTER
  • TRINITY GIANT SALAMANDER EXPEDITION
  • FLORIDA'S SKUNK APE
  • CONSPIRACY THEORY: CANNIBAL CAVES
  • THERMAL IMAGING OF POSSIBLE BIGFOOT
  • 'NOT DEER' REPORTED BY COLORADO WITNESS
  • GALAPAGOS TORTOISE NOT EXTINCT
  • YEREN: BIGFOOT OF CHINA
  • OGOPOGO
  • WORLD'S ONLY (KNOWN) BROWN GIANT PANDA
  • WHAT IS THE IEMISCH?
  • MYSTERY MONSTERS AT MARK TWAIN NATIONAL FOREST
  • DID NAVY FILM UFO SPLASHDOWN?
  • JONATHAN DOWNES ON RECENT CFZ DEVELOPMENTS
  • MINIATURE "NAZCA LINES"
  • BAT BENEFITS
  • HEADLESS BIPEDAL BEING
  • CRANES IN IRELAND
  • THE BOOBRIE
  • 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.

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.

    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


  • BBC: Harambe: Gorilla photo to be sold as an NFT f...
  • Cat with tuna can stuck around its neck is finally...
  • Wild Justice 62 - a breach of the general licences?

  • 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)