CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 10/16/13

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: California oarfish

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. This post, however, is particularly interesting and the author should be congratulated....

http://fox8.com/2013/10/15/giant-sea-serpent-found-by-snorkelers/

CRYPTOLINK: Hunt continues for the Tasmanian Tiger

A scientist has raised the hopes of those who believe the Tasmanian tiger is still alive.

Tasmanian wildlife biologist Nick Mooney has written a chapter for a new book on thylacines, stating there is a slim chance they are still out there. The thylacine had a bounty put on its head early last century and was declared extinct in the 1930s.

Mr Mooney says after decades studying and searching for the animal he cannot say it is definitely gone. "I think there's enough opportunities in Tasmania for a very, very narrow chance that the animal's there," he said.

"It's probably gone, it just might be there."

Read on...

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.

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 are 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.

NEWSLINK: The cat's meow

NEWSLINK: BIG CAT POLL: US charity appeal

DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot, wildman, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs and a visit to the singular universe of Cedar & Willow

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/10/bigfoot-news-from-robert-lindsay.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/10/an-exemplary-wildman.html

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/10/interesting-situation-arising-from.html

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-dinogal-team.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/thelma-white_14.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/thelma-white-pictures.html

New at Benny's Other Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/captain-amercia-67-singer-who-wanted-to.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/untitled-fantasy-art.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/our-house-on-google-maps.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/editorial-cartoon_15.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/mlle-marie.html

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS OVER THERE SOMEWHERE

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

It's quite odd being carless, but the really weird thing is that, at the moment at least, it doesn't impact on our lives that much. Corinna has an appointment in Barnstaple so she went in on the bus, and I am doing this week's shopping online. Apart from that things are much the same. I am sure that we will get a car sooner rather than later, but I am waiting until the right one comes along. I am just approaching the magnificently peculiar climax of the Illuminatus Trilogy, and I expect to have finished it today or tomorrow. I am enjoying it massively, but will be glad when it is over because I have been reading it solidly and have a backlog of other things to read...

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_16.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Roger McGuinn
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-its-alright-ma.html

ON THE RADIO: YES keyboardist Rick Wakeman had to choose between YES and BOWIE…we know he chose YES, but why?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/yes-keyboardist-rick-wakeman-had-to.html

ON THE RADIO: Vangelis' synth techie
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/vangelis-techie-on-radio.html

FAIRPORT CONVENTION: Winter Tour Dates
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/fairport-convention-winter-tour-dates.html

Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels Comes to Life in Green Umbrella at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/frank-zappas-200-motels-comes-to-life.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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.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 54 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?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1869 the Cardiff Giant (a large model sculpted from gypsum that was purported to be a fossil of a gigantic man) was dug up as part of a very profitable hoax.
And now the news:

Real Dragon Over Truro, England on Oct. 11, 2013

London Zoo newborn Sumatran tiger cub found dead

Planet Attenborough shaped our world view

Cameron signals the return of fox-hunting

Sharks devour dolphin in Falmouth Bay: VIDEO (via ...

Exposing myths: Chinese connections in African ivo...

Giant Amazon Fish Species Discovered

Rare Blood-Engorged Mosquito Fossil Found

Me, talking about “Giant Spams”, apparently (Max Lake, as he is called by the press, thought he would be funny and change the title page of the power point display from Scams to Spams). :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlcHCK3y9U