Trucker proposes on the shores of Loch Ness - and his fiancée's name is NESSIE
Is the Loch Ness Monster close to being discovered
by THIS expert? ... To get to the historic castle, they needed to sail along
Loch Ness on Sunday ...
Friday, September 02, 2016
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
Trucker proposes on the shores of Loch Ness - and his fiancée's name is NESSIE
BLOODY HELL IT'S THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
I am on the want today. Is there anybody out there reading this who has any
knowledge or experience of setting up a succesful Patron campaign. The only time
I ever did it it was a massive and spectacular disaster. As you may have read On
The Track, our monthly webTV show is on the way back. I have been planning to
bring it back for a while now.. but with the advent of the charming and
beautiful Miss Chloe Gray who now works in my office (see below) and is probably
the best assistant I have ever had, I have decided to bring it back. When,
where, how, exactly, I'm not sure yet. There will be some changes to the format
and it will be given a stylistic reboot in order to mark the fact that it is no
longer just presented by a tedious old hippy, but is presented by a sassy young
lady with attitude. But never fear : it will not be dumbed down, it will be as
anarchic as ever, and will be featuring regular input from our man in Ohio –
Colin Schneider. It is not about the money, but if it can generate an income
stream via Patreon or sponsorship, it means that we will be able to do more with
it.
Whilst on the subject, if there is anyone reading this who would like to do
some video segments for it, please email me or buzz me on Facebook. And by the
way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to
make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
And now for the news................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart - Three Mul...
Jon Anderson at Yestival 94
A young Steve Ignorant with Vi Subversa from The P...
Coming this weekend
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #197
In this issue we say goodbye to a gracious and very talented lady: Gilli
Smyth of Gong. Doug goes to see Brian Ferry, Alan goes to see what the British
Library has to say about Punk, and explains Futurology and Free Cultural Spaces,
while Jon waffles on about stuff.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to
do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
Michael Moorcock, Dave Bainbridge, Celestial Fire Band, Gong, Bart Lancia,
The Who, Stick Men, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Gillian "Gilli" Mary
Smyth, Machali, Tom Searle, Matt Roberts, Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix,
CBE, DL, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Rob Ayling, Billy James,
Matthew Watkins, Alexandria Krysinski, Brian Ferry, Alan Dearling, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Futurology and Free Cultural Spaces, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Queen, Keith
Richards, Joy Division, Neil Nixon, Johnny Cash, The
Beatles
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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 an
old hippy of 57 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, 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, his
bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of
social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat, and the
adventurous kittens?
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Bigfoot In New Mexico News Report (Video)
New
Mexico is abuzz with bigfoot rumblings while Jeff Meldrum is visiting the
state for a confernce on bigfoot in New Mexico. There have been quite
a ...
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN - 31 B.C. - The Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Sluggy McSlugface no more: sea slug named for fly-...
Storms devastate monarch butterflies' forest habit...
Fisherman hands in giant pearl he kept under the b...
Cuttlefish found to have number sense and state-de...
What conservation isn’t: Eating endangered lemurs ...
One of the World's Oldest Tigers Has Died
Humans caught the common cold from camels, scienti...
Beetles pollinated orchids millions of year ago, f...
Novel molecular clues behind nocturnal behavior
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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)
Thursday, September 01, 2016
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS AN IRRITABLE OLD SOD
The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
As you may or may not know, I have had a whole string of teenage girls
working for me over the past few years, mostly as students. Some have been
better than others. One I remember told me that "I have a bit of an attitude
sometimes" to which I replied "not when you are working for me you don't". She
left a few days later. Another was playing me up so badly when I was meant to be
giving her extra tuition that I sent her into the office to wait for her mother
telling her not to speak to her "elders and betters" like that. She never came
back. Others have been lovely, and have great things ahead of them. I am pleased
to say that the latest incumbent, Miss Chloe Gray is of the latter school.
Dear Chloe was here yesterday and toiled massively. Together we put
together the latest CFZ Newsletter and sorted both hard copy and ebook versions
of the last two issues of A&M - something we should have done weeks ago. She
shows a real aptitude for what we do and is truly the best assistant that I have
ever had.
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
And now for the news................
Eric Burdon Interview
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Erik Norlander - "Surr...
MJ12 US review
GREGG KOFI BROWN IN RUSSIA
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #197
In this issue we say goodbye to a gracious and very talented lady: Gilli
Smyth of Gong. Doug goes to see Brian Ferry, Alan goes to see what the British
Library has to say about Punk, and explains Futurology and Free Cultural Spaces,
while Jon waffles on about stuff.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to
do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
Michael Moorcock, Dave Bainbridge, Celestial Fire Band, Gong, Bart Lancia,
The Who, Stick Men, Brian May, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Gillian "Gilli" Mary
Smyth, Machali, Tom Searle, Matt Roberts, Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix,
CBE, DL, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Rob Ayling, Billy James,
Matthew Watkins, Alexandria Krysinski, Brian Ferry, Alan Dearling, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Futurology and Free Cultural Spaces, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Queen, Keith
Richards, Joy Division, Neil Nixon, Johnny Cash, The
Beatles
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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 an
old hippy of 57 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, 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, his
bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of
social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the infantile orange cat, and the
adventurous kittens?
THE GUARDIAN: Time for some honesty about the badger cull
FROM THURSDAY'S GUARDIAN:
Most scientific experts agree that data from the initial trial badger culling areas in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset do not justify further extension of culling (Scientists criticise badger cull extension, 31 August). In ignoring this advice, and extending culling to five new areas, the government risks not only wasting much money but also giving farmers false hope that the approach will contribute to reducing TB in cattle. The initial trial areas were set up to test whether free-range shooting could be done humanely and at the same time reduce badger populations by at least 70% – the figure previously established as the level needed to achieve a significant reduction in TB in cattle.
The government was able to announce last year that it had achieved its culling targets, but only because they were based on unrealistically low badger population estimates – not on the central or best estimate value, but on the lowest bound value of the statistical margin of error around this estimate. This was simply a fudge. In none of these exercises did it achieve a 70% reduction based on the most likely population estimate. As Professor Woodroffe, one of the scientists involved in the original 10-year badger culling trials, put it: “Setting the targets in this way gives a small possibility of reducing badger numbers by 70%, but a much smaller reduction is much more likely.”
Non-achievement of culling targets not only risks the whole exercise being futile but might actually increase the infection rate in cattle due to the wider ranging of surviving badgers within the culling areas.
Bovine TB has been declining since the introduction of stricter pre-movement testing of cattle in 2007-08, so it is difficult to tell what effect the culling is having on disease incidence within and around the culling areas. Nevertheless, contrary to anecdotal evidence from farmers, the only detailed analysis published so far showed no significant effect over the first two years.
An honest government would admit that the culling methodology doesn’t work and abandon it altogether. Failing this, an alternative would be to complete the initially planned four years of culling in the existing areas, basing targets on the most realistic population estimates, and then to follow up with a detailed analysis of the results before deciding whether to extend or discontinue culling.
Dr Francis Kirkham
Crediton, Devon
Most scientific experts agree that data from the initial trial badger culling areas in Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset do not justify further extension of culling (Scientists criticise badger cull extension, 31 August). In ignoring this advice, and extending culling to five new areas, the government risks not only wasting much money but also giving farmers false hope that the approach will contribute to reducing TB in cattle. The initial trial areas were set up to test whether free-range shooting could be done humanely and at the same time reduce badger populations by at least 70% – the figure previously established as the level needed to achieve a significant reduction in TB in cattle.The government was able to announce last year that it had achieved its culling targets, but only because they were based on unrealistically low badger population estimates – not on the central or best estimate value, but on the lowest bound value of the statistical margin of error around this estimate. This was simply a fudge. In none of these exercises did it achieve a 70% reduction based on the most likely population estimate. As Professor Woodroffe, one of the scientists involved in the original 10-year badger culling trials, put it: “Setting the targets in this way gives a small possibility of reducing badger numbers by 70%, but a much smaller reduction is much more likely.”
Non-achievement of culling targets not only risks the whole exercise being futile but might actually increase the infection rate in cattle due to the wider ranging of surviving badgers within the culling areas.
Bovine TB has been declining since the introduction of stricter pre-movement testing of cattle in 2007-08, so it is difficult to tell what effect the culling is having on disease incidence within and around the culling areas. Nevertheless, contrary to anecdotal evidence from farmers, the only detailed analysis published so far showed no significant effect over the first two years.
An honest government would admit that the culling methodology doesn’t work and abandon it altogether. Failing this, an alternative would be to complete the initially planned four years of culling in the existing areas, basing targets on the most realistic population estimates, and then to follow up with a detailed analysis of the results before deciding whether to extend or discontinue culling.
Dr Francis Kirkham
Crediton, Devon
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
This
Bigfoot Documentary Looks Great!
From
youtuber Trace Unknown - Quest for Bigfoot: An Unknown Species. Filming
for the first season has now been completed. Editing in process.
John
Bindernagel - Wildman: My Search For Sasquatch
AVAILABLE
FOR DOWNLOAD SEPTEMBER 7th!! A short clip from my upcoming Bigfoot
documentary WILDMAN: MY SEARCH FOR SASQUATCH.
This Company Is Trying to Raise $15 Million
to Find Bigfoot
BigFoot Project Investments, which focuses on
finding and documenting proof of Bigfoot, filed for a public stock
offering on Tuesday. The company is ...
This Company Is Trying to Raise $15 Million
to Find Bigfoot
BigFoot Project Investments, which focuses on
finding and documenting proof of Bigfoot, filed for a public stock
offering on Tuesday. The company is ...
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