Wednesday, July 07, 2021

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SLEEPS

 The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

I am in a remarkably good mood today for no particular reason. I have nothing of any interest to report, and nothing much to say. But I hope the good mood lasts
Documentary - The Beatles Made on Merseyside
My Favourite Progressive Rock Epics
Word Podcast 398: Flat Rabbit, Mandible Rumpus ......
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Fairport Convention - "Mat...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
The latest episode of On the Track went up on Saturday and we are very proud of it:
Another potpourri of Phortean Phun:
- Archie pitches a movie
- Jon reveals the worst thing about his job
- the gang return to the Forest of Dean
- We have a bunch of trailcam footage
- Charlotte unboxes
- Carl looks at thylacine jaws
So, if you want to attend a visual entertainment consisting of hard science and a smattering of weird shit, interspersed with us dicking about in an increasingly surreal manner, check the latest episode out:
And here we have another shameless plug:
’Wild Colonial Boy’ is the story of my early life in Hong Kong. It is 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 I could have got away with it. Find out more and buy it signed from the link below:
C’mon, make a curmudgeonly old bugger happy.
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 #453/4
THE SPLINTERED 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 Pete Townshend, The Who, Billy Elliot, Splinter, The Fall, Simon Wolstencroft, Haynesy & JD, Syd Barrett, Mike Tiano, Nick Haynes and much more...
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and C.J Stone but 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:
Issue 449-50 (Cary Grace)
Issue 447-8 (Gardening Club)
This alphqanumeric issue disappearede into the aether
Issue 443-4 (Rubber chicken)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 441-2 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 439-40 (Prince Phillip)
Issue 437-8 (Yes)
Issue 435-36 (Hawkwind)
Issue 433-34 (Freda Payne)
Issue 431-32 (Kosheen)
Issue 429-30 (Ocean Aid)
Issue 427-8 (2021 ia Bosch)
Issue 425-6 (Paul McCartney)
Issue 423-4 (KLF)
Issue 421-22 (Christmas)
Issue 419-20 (John Lennon)
Issue 417-8 (gIG)
Issue 415-16 (Phideaux)
Issue 413-14 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 411-12 (Extinction Rebellion)
Issue 409-10 (Covid)
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?

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 LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

 

  • HUGE SEA SNAKE ON AUSTRALIAN BEACH
  • MYSTERY COCKATOO
  • ADARO
  • VOICES OF BIGFOOT
  • DID IT COME FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION?
  • DO ALIENS EXIST?
  • IMAGES ON NATIONAL PARK CAMERAS
  • WATERS AROUND ANTARCTICA
  • DEAD YOWIE REPORT
  • MONSTERS OF THE SEA
  • IRIZIMA
  • GERESUN BAMBURSHE
  • SQUIRREL ON THE RAMPAGE
  • BIGFOOT IN COLORADO
  • KARL SHUKER AND MYSTERY CATS
  • CRAWLER HUMANOID
  • REVENGE OF THE DOG
  • TUMBLEWEED CREATURE
  • THREE CRYPTID CATS
  • MONSTERS IN THE GREAT LAKES
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY MONSTER
  • WHERE DID INSECT WINGS COME FROM?
  • BLACK DOGS
  • NEW BOOK ON DRAGONS
  • TRULY OUTLANDISH CASE
  • SOMETHING STRANGE IN INDIANA
  • NEW NAVIGATIONAL SENSE DISCOVERED IN BIRDS
  • BARBEGAZI
  • DID BIGFOOT DAMAGE SHED?
  • RADIOACTIVE PORCIDS
  • GIANT ANIMALS
  • THUNDERBIRD PHOTO
  • VULNERABLE CATS
  • WILD MEN IN TENNESSEE
  • JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
  • BLANKETS OF COBWEBS
  • DID ALIENS ANSWER NASA MESSAGE?
  • GOULD'S MOUSE ISN'T EXTINCT
  • MOKELE-MBEMBE: THE LAST DRAGON?
  • PATTERSON-GIMLIN FILM
  • IS NESSIE A GIANT SALAMANDER?
  • SNAWFUS
  • PHANTOM HIKERS
  • LOCH NESS MONSTER COULD BE REVEALED
  • LEGEND OF THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
  • HIBAGON - CRYPTID OF JAPAN
  • DIAMOND ISLAND MONSTER
  • ONE BEE'S CLONE ARMY
  • MICHIGAN BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
  • BIGFOOT PELTS CABIN
  • DID BIGFOOT CHASE A MAN?
  • BIRD ILLNESS IN INDIANA
  • MALIBU BEACH HUMANOID
  • MYSTERY ANIMAL WITH TRUNK
  • LAKES ILIAMNA AND CLARK: THEIR MONSTERS
  • MOOSE-HORSE HYBRID
  • ANOTHER EPISODE OF "ON THE TRACK"
  • ZANA SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY HUMAN
  • WAS BIGFOOT SEEN IN NEW YORK STATE?
  • UFOs AND BIGFOOT IN THE NORTH-WEST
  • NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


    Wild Justice 68


    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)