Tuesday, November 10, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPES FOR THE BEST

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
 
I know that I have sad habit of repeating myself in these columns. I quite often write that “today is a weird day”, but today is. I was woken at about half past seven by a flamboyant young man from the BBC wishing me to comment on some breakfast show or other about allegations in one of the tabloids that Bigfoot had just been photographed in Sussex. Well, as regular readers of my drivel will know, sightings of British man beasts are of particular interest to me. I have even seen one myself – at Bolam Lake, Northumberland back in 2003. Such things are, of course, zoologically impossible but these grotesque oddities turn up now and again, and I admit that I do find them fascinating so, despite being half asleep, I decided to do the interview, and stayed awake for half an hour. I wish I hadn’t, because after the spooky music and the chatty nonsense of the presenter I was only on air for about a minute before I was cut off mid sentence so they could go to another story. I then went back to sleep and over slept. The BBC are not top of my friends list today.
 
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Gonzo Weekly #155
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Pink Fairies, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#155) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has the legendary Pink Fairies on the cover and in depth coverage of their recent London and Wolverhampton gigs inside. Doug goes to see Dungen,Jon critiques a fascinating new Biography of the Beach Boys, Dave McMann looks at the new Frank Zappa Roxy movie, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another from Mack Moloney. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
 
Nelson deMille, Pink Fairies, Noel Gallagher, One Direction, Glenn Frey, Keith Richards, Quadrophenia, Tom Jones, Barbara Dickson, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Wilson, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Mihai Alexandru, Constantin Ignat, Adrian Rugena, Vlad Telea, Lauentiu Varlan, Tommy Overstreet, Raul Rekow, Nucleus, The RAZ band, Mark Murdock, Brand X, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Tim Rundall, Jeremy Smith, John Brodie Smith, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Dave McMann, Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Dead Fred, Ian Abrahams, Xtul, The Beach Boys, Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, Wham!, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Prince, The Beatles, Kiss, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, AndersonPonty, Rick Wakeman, Geoff
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
 
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:
 
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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: 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 young lady called Jessica. 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?

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.


  • NEWSLINK: Rare tiger shot dead by hunter who claim...
  • ARTICLE: Threatened cheetahs: why saving big cats ...


  • ARTICLE: How to Find Cheetah Poop, and Other Stori...
  • FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

    What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

    Well, everything, actually!

    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.


    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




    INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Nov. 9, 2015)-- Do you believe in Bigfoot? Tales and sightings of the hairy creature have been around for years, and despite ...

    Huffington Post UK


    A British dog walker photographed a Yeti over the weekend… in Sussex. The creature, dubbed the 'British Bigfoot,' was first spotted by Caroline Toms' ...

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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  • 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)