Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Rattlesnake roundup

 Dear Sir/Madam,

The Rattlesnake Roundup. 

How we can all help.


At this time of the year we campaign against and oppose one of the cruelest events on the planet.  Do please get involved and let's do whatever we can to get this practice outlawed once and for all.

Please click onto the link below.  In this there are a number of contacts for you to write your letters to.  Pass this onto your friends and get them to do the same.  


https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/74da12_bf697224f52641a79bf076eae61a411e.pdf


These snakes have no voice of their own but we can speak for them so let's give them all the help we can.

Thank you. 


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Robert Piller...

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. 

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 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.

HALF WAY THROUGH THE WEEK SAYS THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

 The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

I truly can’t believe the year is a quarter gone already. Despite the fact it is rather chilly today, spring is definitely with us, and as the lockdown restrictions are slowly being dismantled, things are edging back to normal whatever that is. I am nearly halfway through editing next weekend episode of on the track, and I’m not going to spoil any surprises but it’s a doozy.
I would like to say thank you to everybody who has bought my new book. For those who are unaware, ‘Wild Colonial Boy’ is the story of my early life in Hong Kong, and how I first became interested in Natural History, and more specifically cryptozoology, and there are several very little known cryptozoological mysteries discussed therein. It is very much like a darker analog of Gerald Durrell’s memoirs of his childhood in Greece, and I would’ve called it “My Family and other Sociopaths” if it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t want to be sued either by Durrell’s estate, or my family. I sincerely hope that none of them are reading this blog post.
You can find out more and buy it signed from the link below:
C’mon, make an elderly hippy and his little dog a happy (occasionally sappy) chappy and a waggy yappy (seldom snappy, occasionally crappy)…
And if you want to attend a visual entertainment consisting of hard science interspersed with us dicking about in an increasingly surreal manner, check out the latest episode of On the Track…
AND TODAY'S NEWS...
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AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #433/4
THE JIGGY ISSUE
This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as Hawkwind, Rew Starr, Mike Mac, Kunt and the Gang, Billy White vs Pheend Supreme, Jah Wobble, Youth, Celeste, Brewer's Daughter, Zion Train, Lila Iké, Fergus McCreadie: , Gardening Club, Covid dystopias, and more....
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, and Mr Biffo, there is a column from Kev Rowland, but C.J Stone, Mr Biffo, Tony Klinger and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!
..And the last few issues are:
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 a recently widowed old hippy of 61 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1492 - King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra edict expelling Jews who were unwilling to convert to Christianity.

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


  • Africa’s elephants now endangered by poaching, hab...
  • Here comes the Sun Bea

  • 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)

    Tuesday, March 30, 2021

    THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG


  • A MYSTERY APE?
  • 60-FOOT MONSTERS
  • BOOGER BEAR
  • WHAT'S IN MUCKROSS LAKE?
  • IRKUIEM - THE MONSTER BEAR
  • WELSH LAKE MONSTER
  • MERMEN AND HUMANOIDS IN CASPIAN SEA
  • HIGH STRANGENESS AND BIGFOOT
  • ALBERTA ENERGY AND BIGFOOT MOVIE
  • MONSTERS OF ALASKA FOLKLORE
  • ANOTHER LOOK AT PUKWUDGIE
  • OCTOPUSES BUILDING UNDERWATER 'CITIES'
  • BIGFOOT AND THE FISHING TRIP
  • TROLLGADDA - MYTHICAL PIKE OF SWEDEN
  • GHOST HUNTERS MEET BIGFOOT
  • IS THIS A BIGFOOT THUMB BONE?
  • BLIND AND HANGING SNAKES
  • CRYPTID BEAST STALKS FAMILY
  • FIFTH SIGHTING OF NESSIE IN 2021\
  • IS THE YETI REAL?
  • WATER LEAPER
  • NEW ERMINE SPECIES DISCOVERED
  • CHESUNCOOK LAKE BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER
  • LAKE POWELL MONSTER
  • SEA MONSTER PURSUES SHIP
  • SHEEPSQUATCH
  • COULD HUMANOID ALIENS EXIST?
  • MOST AUSTRALIAN WILD DOGS ARE PURE DINGOS
  • SEARCH FOR SOUTH ISLAND KOKAKO
  • HOW THE IBERA SEEDEATER EVOLVED
  • FAIRY SIGHTING IN COLORADO
  • TERRIFYING HUMANOID ENCOUNTER
  • DOGMAN CAUGHT ON VIDEO
  • BIZARRE HUMANOID ENCOUNTERED IN SWITZERLAND
  • FLOATING ALIEN HUMANOID
  • SEARCHING FOR ORANG PENDEK AND ORANG GADANG
  • TWO NEW SPECIES OF ENDANGERED SCREECH OWLS
  • UNKNOWN MICROBE SPECIES IDENTIFIED
  • PRIMATES AND DINOSAURS
  • TOK
  • CREATURES OF CHINESE BESTIARIES/MYTH
  • MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM
  • ANCIENT TREE CLIMBING KANGAROO
  • MYSTERY BEAST ON MAINE TRAILCAM FILM
  • BONEYARD FOR BIGFOOT KILLS?
  • ARCTIC LION
  • AFRICAN ELEPHANTS ENDANGERED
  • 5 LAKE MONSTERS AND A SPECTER
  • LOCH NESS MONSTER ON LAND
  • MONSTER IN KANSAS SINKHOLE?
  • OCTOPUSES MAY DREAM
  • NEW GIANT FISH DISCOVERED
  • 'HUMAN-FACED' DOG
  • WAS THIS A FAERIE ENCOUNTER?
  • A LOOK AT THE GRIFFIN
  • BRAZIL HAS MOST UNKNOWN ANIMAL SPECIES
  • CREEPY HUMANOID INCIDENTS
  • CLOSE OBSERVATION OF BIGFOOT
  • LEGEND OF THE PUKWUDGIE
  • TIRIARNAQ - UNKNOWN KIND OF BEAR?
  • LAKE WALGREN MONSTER
  • PORTRAIT OF NUNDA?
  • ALIEN SIGHTING
  • SCARY BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS
  • THE LITTLE PEOPLE
  • STELLER'S SEA EAGLE IN TEXAS
  • WHEN WILL WE DISCOVER ALIENS?
  • BIGFOOT IN MAINE
  • TINY CAVEMEN/UFO ABDUCTION/FAIRY FOLKLORE
  • METAL MAN OF ALABAMA
  • GREEN-EYED HUMANOID
  • MERMAIDS REPORTED WORLDWIDE
  • CHUPACABRA HELD AT MILITARY BASE?
  • Monday, March 29, 2021

    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. 

    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 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.

    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN CONTINUES ALONG MY MERRY WAY

     The Gonzo Daily: Monday

    Thank goodness the moon has passed her zenith (or is it apogee, I can never remember?) because I’m beginning to feel normal again, or address as normal as I ever do. I have a mild head cold and a touch of sciatica, but that is par for the course, and I am only too pleased to be getting on with life again. I would like to publicly thank Graham for looking after me this weekend. I truly needed it.
    I would like to say thank you to everybody who has bought my new book. For those who are unaware, ‘Wild Colonial Boy’ is the story of my early life in Hong Kong, and how I first became interested in Natural History, and more specifically cryptozoology, and there are several very little known cryptozoological mysteries discussed therein. It is very much like a darker analog of Gerald Durrell’s memoirs of his childhood in Greece, and I would’ve called it “My Family and other Sociopaths” if it wasn’t for the fact that I didn’t want to be sued either by Durrell’s estate, or my family. I sincerely hope that none of them are reading this blog post.
    You can find out more and buy it signed from the link below:
    C’mon, make an elderly hippy and his little dog a happy (occasionally sappy) chappy and a waggy yappy (seldom snappy, occasionally crappy)…
    And if you want to attend a visual entertainment consisting of hard science interspersed with us dicking about in an increasingly surreal manner, check out the latest episode of On the Track…
    AND TODAY'S NEWS...
    FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN MY DAY JOB: On The...
    The influence of Black music on The Beatles: Mark ...
    GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Rain
    BADFINGER: Take in the good memories
    THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
    YES: Visual biography
    --------------------------------
    AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
    Our webTV show:
    And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
    And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
    Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
    I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?
    AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
    Gonzo Weekly #433/4
    THE JIGGY ISSUE
    This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as Hawkwind, Rew Starr, Mike Mac, Kunt and the Gang, Billy White vs Pheend Supreme, Jah Wobble, Youth, Celeste, Brewer's Daughter, Zion Train, Lila Iké, Fergus McCreadie: , Gardening Club, Covid dystopias, and more....
    And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, and Mr Biffo, there is a column from Kev Rowland, but C.J Stone, Mr Biffo, Tony Klinger and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!
    ..And the last few issues are:
    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 a recently widowed old hippy of 61 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?