Wednesday, October 10, 2012
RICHARD FREEMAN RECOMMENDS
Check this out - a song about the Jersey Devil by a band who sounds like 'The Very Things'
CRYPTOLINK: Serpents in the Waters of Time - Historical Accounts of Sea Serpentry
Even in modern times, stories of sea monsters fascinate us and taunt our minds with incredible possibilities. Could it be that tremendous reptiles–dinosaurs, in essence–could still exist on our planet, and inhabit the darkened waters of our ocean’s depths?
A classic story related by the marine scientist Lionel Walford in 1963 would indicate that something along these lines appears to be the case. In July of the aforementioned year, Walford and his company claimed to have seen a 50-foot-long, undulating serpent-like creature, observed as it swam near the surface only a few miles off the New York shoreline. “It resembled a transparent sea monster. It looked so much like jelly. I could see no bones and no eyes, nose, or mouth. But there it was, undulating along, looking as if it were almost made of fluid glass.”
What was the creature that Walford and his crew had seen? In many ways, the translucent quality the animal possessed is reminiscent of what are known as leptocephalus, the scientific name for eel larvae. However, the larvae form of the eel is never known to grow to such great sizes, let alone the parent animal when fully grown. In other instances, the animals are far more serpentine in both color as well as appearance, the likes of which we often find in historical accounts that leave us wondering whether dinosaurs might not actually exist in our very midst.
INAPPROPRIATE CORNER: Gay porn pops up in priest’s slide show for parents
DUBLIN—The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland said Monday it’s investigating how a priest offering a presentation to parents on their children’s upcoming first Confessions instead ended up showing them a computer slide show of gay porn.
The leader of Ireland’s four million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, said the priest involved insists he didn’t know how the explicit images got on the memory stick he intended to use for his PowerPoint presentation to families at St. Mary’s Primary School in the Northern Ireland village of Pomeroy.
DALE DRINNON: A whole slew of posts at all Dale's blogs
JD: This gets a little complicated as I left off posts which should have gone up yesterday:
New on Frontiers of Anthropology
And New at The Frontiers of Zoology:
New on Cedar and Willow, another piece of the 1988 picture falls into place:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/10/and-god-created-woman-1988.html
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/10/and-god-created-woman-1988.html
And an update and clarification on certain earlier postings at the C&W Blog:
Benny has a blog entry up on William Wilkerson And the Hollywood Trocadero:
JD: And today's posts are...
New On Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/10/two-or-three-pieces-added-so-called.html
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/10/amberellas-and-galaxy-gals.html
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/10/amberellas-and-galaxy-gals.html
WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's Fortean bird news
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.GOODNESS ME
Following yesterday's wholesome and uplifting story I have just received this photograph. Apparently Lee will meet his nemesis whilst dressed as Superman!
TODAY'S 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 should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012, Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.Here is the latest tranche of news...
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
Corinna is home, as is mother and the two
new Chinese toads. Even Prudence has stopped sulking. So we are back to normal.
The CFZ exhibition in Barnstaple starts at the
end of next week, the BBC have just interviewed me about the Loch Ness Monster,
the lovely Jess Heard will be here imminently and
Michael Des Barres has a new single out. Life as normal
really...
Michael Des Barres: Amor Prohibido. God, this is
brilliant. I heard this first the day after it was recorded, and I love it
to death. Somehow it has even more power than the
English language version. Check it out, and then go buy it at iTunes...http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-des-barres-new-single-remember.html
Our daily visit to the abode of Thom the World
Poet. Today he takes us for a walk by Walk by ocean, river, desert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
As regular readers will know, I am very fond of the music of Cap[tain Beefheart and am not averse to using the excuse that there is a Beefheart volume in the Lost Broadcasts series as an excuse to post a link to a retrospective look at one of his classic albums.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-40-year-itch-captain-beefheart.html
I am very fond of Helen McCookerybook and I hope to be talking to her later today about various projects of hers. Today, however, I have half inched various bits from her blog about a new club she is starting. Herewith Club Artyfartle. I might even try and get a gig there myself..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/helen-mccookerybook-club-artyfartle.html
I found this video interview with Rick Wakeman's son Adam yesterday, and was so interested that I shamelessly used the fact that his dad is a Gonzodude to repost it here today.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/classic-rock-rick-wakeman-fanpack.html
Whilst on the subject of things Wakemanesque, those jolly nice people at Classic Rock are putting out a Rick Wakeman fanpack based around the Journey to the Centre of the Earth album.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/classic-rock-rick-wakeman-fanpack.html
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 Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1971 London Bridge was reopened... in Lake Havasu City, Arazona in the
United States of America. The bridge was sold by the city of London because it
could no longer cope with the amount of traffic expected to cross over it, it
was bought by Robert P. McCulloch as a tourist attraction for his planned city
and transported in sections to the city where it would span a specially
constructed canal. Although a nice bridge, rumour has it that the Americans
originally thought they were buying the iconic Tower Bridge and only discovered
their error far into the sale process. Whatever the truth they must have been
happy with their purchase in the end as it attracted thousands of people to live
in the newly built city and continues to be a big draw for tourists.
And now
the news:
- When in Japan, see dugongs, eat dugong cookies
- A Reptilian Repast-Small Art Shop Near Simpang Siu...
- Onset of Flu Season Raises Concerns About Human-To...
- Do Animals get depressed?
- Parrot-like dinosaur described
- River Turtle Species in Missouri Still Suffers fro...
- Rare white sea turtles hatch in New Smyrna Beach, ...
The
TV movie “A Bridge Across Time” used the relocated London bridge as a plot
device allowing the ghost of Jack the Ripper to be pitted David Hasselhoff in a
battle of wits (The family friendly editorial policy of the blog prevents me
from saying what kind of 'wits' exactly but it begins with the letter 'F')
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