Thursday, May 04, 2017

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS




A never before seen photo of a Tasmanian tiger and her pups in a travelling zoo has emerged online. Rose Lewis uploaded the 1920s photo from her ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Wildhorse Lake Bigfoot Video Commentary
Parabreakdown takes a look at an interesting piece of footage. A family taking photos near Wildhorse Lake see something in the distance they can't ...

New analysis of Todd Standings bigfoot footage to be done by Jeff Meldrum and Bill Munns
Here is part two of the Todd Standing interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum on Bigfoot North radio. The two bigfoot researchers discuss some very.

Father & Son see Bigfoot near Mogollon Rim
A collection of campfire stories of the Mogollon Monster, Arizona's Bigfoot as told by the Locals of Northern Arizona Continue Reading >. Search ...

Bigfoot Cam Results In Oklahoma
Robert Dodson shares the latest results from his research location in SE Oklahoma. This time it's the footage from the hanging bigoot cam. Take a look ...

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.







DAN HOLDSWORTH: A welcome mobile phone application

https://guardianproject.info/2017/02/24/combating-fake-news-with-a-smartphone-proof-mode/

Jon,
This would be quite nice to see on mobile phones.

What it does is uses modern encryption to demonstrate that what the camera on a phone is recording is what the sensor saw, and that this hasn't been diddled about with in any way.

If there's a bit of uptake of these sorts of apps, then the days of the insert-a-ghost camera apps are numbered.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES SOMETHING INTERESTING

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
 
I would like to say that I am staggered by the behaviour of the British newspapers. But I’m not. Although I have been a journalist for many years, it is not a career path of which I boast and I basically agree with Robert Heinlein, who wrote “if you have to write, do it in private and wash your hands afterwards”.
 
This week Her Majesty’s Press was full of stories announcing that “the Loch Ness Monster has been found” and “conclusive proof of Nessie”.
 
This is all because a young lady visiting Loch Ness took photographs of a blurry something near the edge of the lake. Truthfully, it could be anything, although it is better than many so-called Loch Ness Monster photographs in that it is not an obvious fake!
 
But, what is it? Truthfully, I have no idea, but it certainly isn’t conclusive proof of anything.
 
And now, here is the news:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Sons Of Fred - I'l...
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Frank Zappa - Lost Interview - Hendrix, UFOs & Sex...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Magazine #232
THE COR BABY THAT'S REALLY STRANGE AND WEARD ISSUE
 
And so, in this week's peculiar issue, We interview Roy Weard about his remarkable new album, Alan discusses rhythms of the world, John waxes lyrical about Moonalice and we send the legendary Richard Strange to a desert island. Graham explains the latest twists and turns in the saga of Hawkwind and Jon discovers that Every Record tells a Story! and learns about the horrific world of Internet Vigilantes.
 
Groovy huh?
 
It’s all free!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and Strange Fruit. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. 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:
 
Frank Zappa, Every Record Tells A Story, Deep Purple, Don Airey, Queen + Adam Lambert, Elton John, The Kills, Gruff Rhys, Clinic, Nadine Shah, Fat White Family & Wild Beasts, John Cale, Nick Cave, Damon Albarn, Michael Jackson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Leo Baxendale, Frank Dostal, Calep H. Emphrey Jr., Robert Maynard Pirsig, Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Alan Dearling, Marco Faddo, Trilok Gurtu, Jan Garbarek Group, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Grateful Dead, Rhythm Devils, Brian Jones, Denis Kigongo, UzBand, David Byrne, John Brodie-Good, Moonalice & Doobie Decibel System, Kev Rowland, Solitary, Ape Shifter, Artemiy Artemiev & Karda, Axel Rudi Pell, Barock Project, Richard "Kid" Strange, Doctors of Madness, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin Springett, The Beatles, Cocteau Twins, Franz Ferdinand, The Who, Pink Floyd, Neil Nixon, Cut Chemist, Gorillaz
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
 
 
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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?

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.


NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1471 - In England, the Yorkists defeated the Landcastrians at the battle of Tewkesbury in the War of the Roses. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Recovering species must be celebrated or we risk r...
  • Genetic evidence points to nocturnal early mammals...
  • Sea Urchins Launch Their Weird Mobile Jaws to Scar...
  • Hunt Kicks Off for 'Teddy Bear' Marsupial and Othe...


  • 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.)