FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED I HAVE A NEW RECORD OUT

Jon Downes – BiPolar

It is available on iTunes, Spotify etc. which is mildly exciting because this is the first time I have been on these stores. I don't expect many people will buy it, but for the record the tracks are all written by me and are:

1. Because I said So
A dystopian D'Oyly Carte view of the world. What happens when G&S meet The Buzzcocks
2. Harbour Lights
These days if a schoolteacher called a small child an imbecile there would be hell to pay
3. Monkey Boy at the circus
Politicians - who rattled the cage? Have you noticed that the trend towards women politicians and politicians from minorities means that you cannot criticise them without being accused of sexism or racism? Pah!
4. I know where you live
A nasty revenge fantasy with a twist in the tail
5. I don't give a damn about you
Well, do they? Probably not
6. (I want to believe) in the protocols
I have a friend who believes in all the most ridiculous conspiracy theories going. This one is for him. Anyway I don't think anyone else has managed to get the Trilateral Commission and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into a song, and make it rhyme before
7. The gorillas are coming but where is Barry Mooncult?
What if the man with the wooly hat in the library, who is shouting at an unseen assailant, was once famous? Would you care?
8. No matter who you vote for (the government always wins)
The title is self-explanatory, and is a rant against Thatcher, Blair et al. An object lesson for everyone who votes for selfish reasons
9. Somewhere to hide
Alan Jules Weberman (born May 26, 1945), better known as A. J. Weberman, is an American writer, political activist, gadfly, and popularizer of the terms garbology and "Dylanology". He is best known for his controversial personal confrontations with the musician Bob Dylan and for his 30-year involvement with the Yippies, a counterculture movement of the 1960s
10. The seventeenth duckling
The title came from Richard who gleefully pointed out that Elizabeth Bathory wasn't from Romania. The rest is typical manic depressive feeling sorry for myself, but with a nice line about Homo superior
11. The Ugly City
Four in the morning, can't communicate, and the internet has been down for hours. In comes an email. Is it what you have been waiting for? No it is a mis-spelled missive trying to sell you viagra
12. Twilight over England
Continuing the noble JD tradition of having the title song of the album on the next one. Yes I know the title was cribbed off William Joyce. Yes I know the chorus was stolen from Skrewdriver. No I am not a Nazi

JON ON BLOGTALK RADIO LAST NIGHT

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Many thanks to Bruce and the guys, I enjoyed myself immensely. BTW I don't come in untiil about 20 minutes in because of a techie cock up

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• Offline/Online/Offline/Online Etc, Etc — Nick's way of saying Happy Holidays...
• Unbelievable: A Monstrously Good Tale! — A new graphic novel from Simon Wyatt...

From CFZ Australia:

• Rogue human-killing sharks 'only in Hollywood' — No scientific basis for Jaws...
• Mystery surrounds discovery of 25 dead ponies — A gruesome find in New South Wales...
• Tasmanian beach yields familiar fossil — A 250-million-year-old Dicynodont...

From CFZ Canada:

• Introduction-Canadian Water Monsters — Detailed analysis from guest blogger Dale Drinnon....

HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Mail April 1954

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/12/daily-mail-april-1954.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1938 the first modern coelacanth species was discovered off the South African coast.
And now the news:

Looking for benefits in birdsong
Frankincense tree facing uncertain future
Will Antarctic Worms Warm to Changing Climate?
Invisible fungi crucial for rainforest diversity
Concern at poaching of Kerry red deer
Journey's end as red kite is found poisoned

Dear little fellow:http://www.arkive.org/coelacanth/latimeria-chalumnae/video-06.html

TWO HEADED BABY IN BRAZIL

A two-headed baby born in Brazil is reportedly healthy

A Brazilian woman has given birth to a two-headed baby boy and doctors say the newborn appears to be in good health. Maria de Nazare has decided to name the pair, who share a heart, lungs, liver and pelvis, Emanoel and Jesus.

"When doctors scanned her they realized that the baby had two heads and that a normal birth would be a great risk both for mother and baby," hospital director Claudionor Assis de Vasconcelos told Brazil's O Povo newspaper. "The caesarean took an hour because the baby was sitting down."

"Despite all the problems we have as a small interior hospital we managed to save both mother and baby, which was our aim," he said. "And for us it was a great surprise to find out that the child was in really good health."

De Nazare was expecting twins and only found out about the two-headed child minutes before doctors advised her to have a caesarean birth in order to save both her life and that of her baby. Along with two heads, the 9.9 pound newborns have separate spines.

In some two-headed births where one brain is less developed, one head is removed in order to save the child's life. But rarer cases like this one, where there are two functioning brains, complicates the decision making process for doctors.

"If both their brains are functioning, how are we going to choose which head to remove?" said Neila Dahas, director of the Santa Casa hospital. "We are not considering the possibility of surgery. What we've got to think about at this moment is to maintain the children in good condition and see how they will develop."

Conjoined twins sharing a body, but with separate heads, are extremely rare but not without precedent. This is the second such birth in Brazil this year. However, the other child died after a few hours because of a lack of oxygen to one of the child's heads.

There have been at least 14 dicephalic conjoined twins born over the past 200 years.

CFZ CANADA: An introduction to Canadian Water Monsters (Guest blogger Dale Drinnon)

CFZ Canada had put up an article earlier thisyear in which it was stated that Plesiosaur fossils had been found in thedeposits left behind by Glacial Lake Agassiz. This would be unusual for severalreasons, not the least of which would be that the lake would be pretty much perpetual icewater. I had also discovered something about Lake Monsters in North America during my studies of the reports, most of which I shall explain later in this article.....Read all about it