Monday, August 15, 2016

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.






THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS OVER IN THE CORNER

The Gonzo Daily - Monday
 
And so the madness continues. The swathe of surreal horror that seems the be typifying 2016 is blossoming bigtime, with horrific family problems plaguing several of my doughty helpers for this weekend’s festivities. If I ever didn’t believe in the shenanigans of the Cosmic Joker, I sure do now. Loki seems to be stalking the lanes of Hartland and Woolsery riding a unicycle and brandishing a bloody great chainsaw in one of his hands, and possibly a whoopee cushion in the other. How does he still manage to ride his unicycle? He is a deity, so he moves in mysterious ways.
 
Now, while I am here, please let me apologise to everyone who is expecting an email from me. British Telecom have still not got their collective finger out. I can receive emails but not reply to  them, and so most of my emails are being sent by Corinna at the moment. Bloody Hell!
 
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
 
And now for the news................
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Georg Friedrich Handel...
John Lennon interviewed by Bob Harris (1975)
ME1 TV Talks To... Hawkwind
Al Atkins interviewed by Metal Assault - Part 1 - ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Magazine #195
 
The good people of Seaton pay tribute to Dave Brock of Hawkwind, Doug goes to see LCD Soundsystem, Jon muses on legendary unreleased music and wonders why so much of it is crap, Alan visits Ladies Day at the Festivals, and we look at a new book on Crass
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night  Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
Dolly Parton, Tony Iommi, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples, Adam Lambert, Gregg Allman, Jack White, Rolling Stones, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Padraig Duggan, William Edward "B. E." Taylor, Richard Fagan, The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, LCD Soundsystem, Alan Dearling, Kosfest, Ladies Day, Julia Quinn, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Xtul, Crass, Elton John, Elvis, Bob Marley, Alberta Casey
                                                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
 
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:
 
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
 
 
* 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.co.uk
 
* 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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




Georgia Bigfoot captured alive! Footage from CNN
Georgia Bigfoot captured alive! Footage from CNN.


Radio Host Shares His Bigfoot Encounter Story
Dave Schrader is the host of Darkness Radio, and Fill-In host for Coast To Coast AM. Dave talks to a lot of people who have bigfoot stories to tell, but ...


Bigfoot Team Finds Themselves In A Dangerous Situation
The Trail To Bigfoot team has something thrown at them in the deep swamps of Florida, and suddenly realize they are surrounded.

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1057 - Macbeth, the King of Scotland, was killed by the son of King Duncan. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years’ d...
  • Pipistrelle flies 2,500km to show bats can match b...
  • Baby whale stranded in New Zealand harbour for 20 ...
  • Long-studied Alaskan wolf pack may be dead after y...
  • Side swim style saves shark energy
  • Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to ...
  • Scientists have discovered why snakes are so


  • 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)