ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

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

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

• Princess Diana and an Alien Big Cat — A very weird and conspiratorial tale...

From CFZ-USA:

• THE MAN WHO DIDN'T SHOOT BIGFOOT
• DO BEARS FIGHT BIGFOOT?
• DOGMAN INVESTIGATION IN PENNSYLVANIA
• NEXT TYPE OF PET
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• BLACK PANTHER REPORTED IN QUEENSLAND
• IS THIS A YETI FOOTPRINT?
• NEW DOLPHIN FOSSILS
• TINY HORSES
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• MOOSE - A CRYPTID DISCOVERED
• WATER MONSTER IN SCOTTISH FIRTH
• DOGMAN SIGHTING IN PENNSYLVANIA
• CHUPACABRA IN PUERTO RICO
• APES - WILL THEY LEARN TO SPEAK? (see picture above)
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• PTEROSAUR OVER MISSISSAUGA
• BURRONJOR - AUSTRALIAN DINOSAUR?
• ALLEGED BIGFOOT FILM
• INTERPLANETARY EXCHANGE
• ALIENS ON THE MOON?
• AZUAY STUBFOOT TOAD NOT EXTINCT

THE GONZO HEN HOPS HA!

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme

 

There once was a kitten called Squeaky

whose antics verged upon the freaky

as I tried to write blogs

she terrorised the dogs

so I gave up trying to be geeky

 

cos Sundays I do the blogs in rhyming

whilst outside the church bells are chiming

but if noises erupt

or otherwise interrupt

it screws up my whole sense of timing

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Chinese Hymn 詩歌 - 風雨念香...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-chinese-hymn.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_6.html

Yes, “Clear Days” from Time and a Word (1970): YES...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/yes-clear-days-from-time-and-word-1970.html

GONZO WEEKLY #146

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/gonzo-weekly-146.html

PLAYLIST: Strange Harvest #2

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/playlist-strange-harvest-2.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #146

www.gonzoweekly.com

 

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Bee and Flower, The Wombats, Joy Division, Fruits de Mer, Insect Ark, Pink Fairies John Martyn, Ringo Starr, David Bowie, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!

 

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#146) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Dana Schechter from Bee and Flower  on the front cover together with an interview with her inside, Doug looks at ELP, Lee dances with The Wombats, Jon muses about Fruits de Mer Records and reviews a book about Ringo Starr, John looks at the legacy of the English Underground on YouTube including music by John Martyn and the Pink Fairies. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the second of four Strange Harvest radio specials from the folk wot bring you Strange Fruit, and there is the latest episode of Canterbury Sans Frontières featuring Gong and Matching Mole. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padua for an intercession, 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:

 

Fruits de Mer, The Beach Boys, Miley Cyrus, Meat Loaf, Prince, Alan Lomax, Brinsley Schwarz, Mega Dodo, Galahad, Lana del Rey, Barbara Dickson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Owens Boomer Castleman, Joy Beverley, Wes Craven, Rick Wakeman, Hugh Hopper, The Pirates, Ducks Deluxe, The Pirates, Wilko Johnson, Dr. John, Johnny Winter & Uncle John Turner,  Billy Cobham, Brand x, Pete Sears, Frank Zappa, Bee and Flower, Dana Schechter, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Lee Walker, The Wombats, John Brodie-Good, Caravan, Hawkwind, Gong, Pink Fairies, John Martyn, Roy Weard, Lemmy, Yes, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Bring me the Horizon, David Bowie, Neil Nixon, Les Baxter, Midvinterblot

 

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo142.html

Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo141.html

Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo140.html

Issue 139 (Raz cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo139.html

Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo138.html

Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo137.html

Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo136.html

Issue 135 (FNP cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo135.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

* 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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…

 

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten 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, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 kitten?

GONZO WEEKLY #146

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Sunday

ON THIS DAY IN 1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Ant communication: Secrets of the antennae

Mako Shark Phones Home, Revealing Epic Journey

Fishermen discards could increase prevalence of tu...

Nine elephants die in three poaching attacks

Lizards can stomach island living

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)

RICHARD FREEMAN SENT THIS: Here's why crocodiles are 100 times deadlier than sharks

Bas Leenders/Flickr
Submerged crocodile in Indonesia.

The world is obsessed with sharks. Just look at the popularity of horror flicks like Jaws and the less critically-acclaimed but surprisingly popular movie, Sharknado.

But when Bill Gates posted an infographic ranking the world's deadliest animals to his blog in 2014, one statistic really caught our eye: Crocodiles are 100 times deadlier than sharks.

Numbers of fatal encounters with wildlife are extremely hard to tabulate, given that most places have inadequate reporting. But according to wildlife ecologist James Perran Ross of the University of Florida, officials estimate that crocs kill about 1,000 people per year — 100 times more than the 10 people sharks kill per year.

Read on...

Help needed to document endangered black-footed ferret numbers

Help needed to document endangered black-footed ferret numbers Sept. 3, 2015

Volunteer spotlighting opportunities begin later this month

SELIGMAN, Ariz.  – The Arizona Game and Fish Department is seeking dedicated volunteers to help document endangered black-footed ferret numbers. As part of the black-footed ferret recovery effort, Game and Fish personnel will be conducting two fall spotlighting events, which is the method used to document the population of this elusive, nocturnal and endangered carnivore. The dates of the two efforts are Sept. 24-28 and Oct. 22-26. Those wishing to assist can volunteer for one night or multiple nights. The efforts will be conducted at the black-footed ferret recovery area in Aubrey Valley, west of Seligman. “Volunteers play a vital role,” said Jeff Pebworth, wildlife program manager for the department’s regional office in Kingman. “We don’t have the personnel to fully staff these events, and the program’s continued success depends on people remaining involved.” Twice thought to be extinct, a small population of black-footed ferrets was discovered in 1981. Only 18 were left when captive breeding efforts began in 1985. In 1996, Arizona’s Aubrey Valley was selected as a reintroduction site. The last two spotlighting efforts revealed lower-than-expected numbers, which puts increased importance on the upcoming fall events. “The numbers were lower, but we don’t know why,” Pebworth said. “We tested for plague, and all of those tests were negative. There’s a possibility the animals have expanded their range, or that good precipitation the last few years has the grass too tall to see the ferrets. “These fall efforts follow the breeding season, so we’re hoping the count will rebound.” Volunteers can witness the processing of the animals, which allows researchers to understand population, longevity and movement throughout the range. Volunteers must be able to stay attentive from sunset to sunrise and be willing to learn how to use a Global Positioning System (GPS). A parent or guardian must accompany any youth under 18. "This is an opportunity to see the amount of effort involved with this reintroduction,” Pebworth said. “Not to mention the chance to see an animal few others have ever seen in the wild.” Those wishing to volunteer, or needing more information, should e-mail azferret@azgfd.gov by Sept. 21 for the first  effort and by Oct. 19 for the later opportunity. Please write “Fall Spotlighting” with “September,” “October” or “Both” in the subject line. They also should indicate which night(s) they are available and include their full name, a contact phone number, and whether anyone will be attending with them. Additional information will be sent following contact, including meeting location and times. Volunteers also should note any of the following equipment they can bring: GPS, clipboard, headlamp, pen, binoculars, walkie-talkies, 4x4 vehicle (please list passenger capacity), compass, or a spotlight that is either rechargeable or plugs into a cigarette lighter. The weather can be cool, so volunteers need to dress appropriately. “It remains critical we continue to document ferret numbers and understand how this population is holding up in the wild,” Pebworth said. “Events such as this help direct us in regard to what needs to happen next.”

The Arizona Game and Fish Department prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, or disability in its programs and activities. If anyone believes that they have been discriminated against in any of the AGFD’s programs or activities, including employment practices, they may file a complaint with the Deputy Director, 5000 W. Carefree Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85086-5000, (602) 942-3000, or with the Fish and Wildlife Service, 4040 N. Fairfax Dr. Ste. 130, Arlington, VA 22203. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation or this document in an alternative format by contacting the Deputy Director as listed above.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TRIES HIS BEST

The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday

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Young Jessica is an excellent assistant and a real boon in the office. However she has one serious drawback. She was only born in 1997, and unfortunately does not come from a household where experimental music is the norm, we have several confrontations a week. This week that’s gone, for example, she told me, her voice rich with emotion, that if I ever played her Robert Wyatt again she would phone Child Line! What on earth can an old fool like me do in the face of such teenage intransigency.

I am actually dictating this to her, and when we got to the end of the last paragraph, I explained what ‘intransigency’ means.

She glared at me.

“I am not stubborn!” she spat at me stomping her foot, only proving my point.

Earlier this year I read Marcus O’Dair’s excellent biography of Robert Wyatt, and was struck by a very telling quote from Wyatt’s wife, Alfreda Benge. She was commenting on the practice of ‘Wyatting’. According to Wikipedia:

The verb "Wyatting" appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of playing unusual tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers, in particular Dondestan. Wyatt was quoted in 2006 in The Guardian as saying "I think it's really funny" and "I'm very honoured at the idea of becoming a verb." However, when asked if he would ever try it himself, he said: "I don't really like disconcerting people, but even when I try to be normal I disconcert anyway." However, Alfreda Benge said it made her angry "that Robert should be used as a means of clever dicks asserting their superiority in pubs ... It's so unlike Robert, because he's so appreciative of the strengths of pop music. So that, I think, is a real unfairness. The man who coined it, I should like to punch him in the nose."

Now, personally, I am very fond of Wyatt’s music and don’t understand why anybody would find it grating to the ear. On the other hand I think some of the dubstep that has been played to me over the years by some of the young people in my extended family is a bloody awful row. when I was young I always thought my father was a bad tempered, curmudgeonly old sod by rejecting all the music that my generation made out of hand. I hope that I’ not quite as bad but I think that my chances of liking Skrillex are about as likely as Jessica whistling Dondestan on the way to work.

POSTSCRIPT: An earworm, sometimes known as a brainworm, is a catchy piece of music that continually repeats through a person's mind after it is no longer playing. Phrases used to describe an earworm include musical imagery repetition, involuntary musical imagery, and stuck song syndrome. Guess what piece of music I have managed to embed in Jess’s cerebral cortex? All together now: “Palestine’s a country, or at least it used to be”….

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Raz Band - Cars &...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-raz-band-cars.html

COMING TOMORROW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/coming-tomorrow.html

Barbara Dickson at The Plough

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/barbara-dickson-at-plough.html

Yes’ symphonic rock still progressive

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/yes-symphonic-rock-still-progressive.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

Gonzo Weekly #145

www.gonzoweekly.com

Hawkwind, Twink, Stackridge, Alice Cooper, Robert Plant, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#145) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Dave Brock from Hawkwind cutting his birthday cake (picture courtesy Brian Tawn) on the front cover together with a round up of what is coming up for the Grand-daddys of Space Rock, We also have an exclusive interview with Twink about his new album - a sequel to the legendary Think Pink, and a look at the history of Stackridge to tie in with the band's last ever gigs. Doug looks at Alice Cooper, Lee at Half Man Half Biscuit, Jon muses about Robert Plant. Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column. And there is a radio show from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the first of four Strange Harvest radio specials from the folk wot bring you Strange Fruit. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and water opossums with something to lose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials planning to pray to St Anthony of Padua for an intercession, 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:

Robert Plant, Kenney Jones, Rufus Wainwright, The Who, Barbara Dickson, Bob Dylan, The Zombies, Steve Hackett, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Russell Henderson, Rick Wakeman, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Twink, Alice Cooper, Stackridge, Ade Macrow, Lee Walker, Half Man/Half Biscuit, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Dave Brock,

Lemmy, Motorhead, Jess Heard, Bee and Flower, Beatles, Elvis, Haight-Ashbury, Neil Nixon, William Basinski, Huldre

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo142.html

Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo141.html

Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo140.html

Issue 139 (Raz cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo139.html

Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo138.html

Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo137.html

Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo136.html

Issue 135 (FNP cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo135.html

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

* 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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten 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, and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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 kitten?