Journalist, scientific researcher, and famed skeptic Benjamin Radford has written numerous articles and six books on topics ranging from urban legends to various paranormal phenomena, all the while ruthlessly championing critical thought. On the heels of releasing two books last year (Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore and The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes with Robert E. Bartholomew), Radford will make a handful of appearances at Dragon*Con this year bringing a much needed voice of reason and sanity when it comes to discussing urban legends and all things supernatural. Before making his way to Atlanta Radford took a few minutes to talk a little bit about what he does.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
Both my email accounts are down at the moment. Being a sunday it doesn't really matter and I expect that they will be restored tomorrow. If you really have to get hold of me email me c/o corinna@cfz.org.uk. Otherwise I shall be largely having a day off!
HOWEVER...
It's only emails (could be worse)
so I still do this stuff in verse
and send it out by dint of wife
who is the best thing in my life
Here is something I found for you
an album by album overview
of the Caped Crusader (for goodness sake man)
you know I'm talking about Rick Wakeman
I've always collected Rock and Roll tat
(I admit I'm rather proud of that)
which is why I still post al this guff
about collectible Hawkwind stuff
Something that's always bound to please
is the Gonzo 'Lost Broadcast' DVDs
so come on guys, get in the groove
and check out this stuff 'bout 'The Move'
Martin Stephenson, what a bloke
he sings some songs then tells a joke
there's an article that I've found here
about his illustrious career
Michael the rock and roll Marquis
is someone whose quite dear to me
his new CD is one to last
and here he is in a podcast
'The World Poet' Thom Woodruff
writes all sorts of groovy stuff
I'm almost embarrassed that sometimes
he will read Jon Downes' awful rhymes
I've been writing this for what seems years
so thats enough for now, my dears
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
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
- These are today's news stories. I am afraid that Oll's header and footer are lost somewhere in the aether until my
- email service is restored.
- Conn. town settles dispute over girl's pet bunny
- Sea Lights Help Seals Hunt in the Dark
- FLESH EATING GULLS DEVOUR WHALES ALIVE
- Billions of Tons of Methane Lurk Beneath Antarctic...
- Scientist Creates Test, Treatment for Malaria-Like...
- Can Blue Tits Can Save Our Conker Trees?
Friday, August 31, 2012
LINK: Hayley writes - Steve Feltham has the hump from the latest Nessie photo
I wrote previously that skeptics were being too quick to label the latest Nessie photo as a hoax without any supporting evidence, and how this was illogical behaviour. Yesterday a comment was left on my post by Steve Feltham about the photo and how he’d discovered that it was not a genuine photo containing something unidentifiable, or something naturally occuring that had been misidentified. Steve said
That was my first impressions of Georges photograph [quoted in this blog post], pubished exclusively by the Inverness courier. I have since then spent a lot of time getting to the bottom of what actually went on here…. i can quiet catagorically, with no fear of him ever daring to sue me, that George Edwards has deliberately punted a photo that he know to be of a fibreglass prop from a documentary as a real picture of something unexplained… no question. I now have this hump, i also have film of it being used in the water, and i also have film of it on the DECK OF HIS BOAT!
I sat in shock for a moment or two before processing what I had just read before rushing onto the Facebook page as instructed where I found a timeline of Steve’s discovery written out before me. I personally know what it is like to believe something is genuine only for doubt to start creeping in when you think about the subject a bit more. Steve posted several photos on his Facebook wall on August 19th showing a Fibreglass hump that had been used in a Documentary by National Geographic for Channel 5 called ‘Truth behind the Loch Ness monster”.
LINK: Is Bigfoot On The Loose In The Ohio Woods?
The person filming appears to be riding a motorbike or scooter down the forest path, taking in the scenery.
Then all of a sudden, ‘Bigfoot’ crosses the path from left to right, holding what appears to be a stick in his right hand.
The unnamed rider immediately veers off into the bushes before turning the bike around and driving off in the opposite direction.
Do you believe? Free tickets to anything you want if you capture Big Foot and bring him/her to the Q104 Studios…ALIVE! LOL
Read more HERE
Then all of a sudden, ‘Bigfoot’ crosses the path from left to right, holding what appears to be a stick in his right hand.
The unnamed rider immediately veers off into the bushes before turning the bike around and driving off in the opposite direction.
Do you believe? Free tickets to anything you want if you capture Big Foot and bring him/her to the Q104 Studios…ALIVE! LOL
Read more HERE
LINK: Bigfoot Trackway Found in the Cotswolds of England
Bigfoot News | Bigfoot Lunch Club: Bigfoot Trackway Found in the ...
By Guy Edwards
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, an area 25 miles (40 km) across and 90 miles (145 km) long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Recently a local ...
“They went over some really rough ground but there was quite a distance between each print almost as if they where avoiding the really wet mud,” -- Melanie Aston, teacher and print witness
Read on...
By Guy Edwards
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, an area 25 miles (40 km) across and 90 miles (145 km) long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Recently a local ...
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| Cotswolds footprint next to a size 7 welly (boot) |
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in southwestern and west-central England, an area 25 miles (40 km) across and 90 miles (145 km) long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Recently a local English paperm announced the discovery of a trackway that seemed to have very large steps and strides.
Recently a local English paperm announced the discovery of a trackway that seemed to have very large steps and strides.
Read on...
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