CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 08/21/13

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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 took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS WISE BEYOND HIS YEARS

For the first time, Ronan Coghlan has stayed for a few days after the Weird Weekend. For those of you who are not familiar with him, you really should be. He is an elderly Irish academic with the most impish sense of humour that you can imagine. He has been a staple of the Weird Weekend since 2004, and it is always a joy to be with him. He finally left for Northern Ireland this morning, and, after about a fortnight of visitors, only the people who live here are left. The house seems very big and quiet, rather than tiny and crowded...

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Liam Davison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-liam-davison.html

Judge Smith at the Weird Weekend
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/judge-smith-at-weird-weekend.html

Easy Riding with Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/easy-riding-with-stephen-stills-and.html

Rick Wakeman and The Muppets
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/rick-wakeman-and-muppets.html

MERRELL FANKHAUSER: Local musician revisits Hendrix’s ‘Rainbow Bridge’...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/local-musician-revisits-hendrixs_21.html

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* 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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* 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 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 orange cat?