HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Mirror 25.10.67

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/05/daily-mirror-251067.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1990 the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric diseases.

And now the news:

• Australian officials investigating shooting of Wed...
• Motorists warned of risk of deer on roads – Especi...
• With massive dinosaurs towering above, tiny female...
• Rare Tyrannosaurus skeleton to be auctioned
• Rio+20 summit leaders 'must improve nature protect...
• Nearly One Tenth of Hemisphere's Mammals Unlikely ...
• Fish Guts Could Say Which Species Survive Climate ...
• Locating Lice as They Hitch-Hike With Birds for Li...
• Trout and Vineyards Compete for Water in Wine Coun...
• Large Mouths Drove Island Snakes to Gigantism
• Spiny Marine Fish Discovered in Sweden

Almost as shocking as the fact that it took until 1990 for the WHO (the UN not the popular music group) to accept that some folks are just gay and not mad is this 1960s public information film from the USA (this really is a genuine American public information film!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY8i2Im34Hc

IS THIS PEARL BORDERED FRITILLARY UNUSUAL?

Or is it an unwitting victim of photoshop?

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6230&start=1000

KARL SHUKER: Ebony encounters of the serpentine kind

http://karlshuker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/ebony-encounters-of-serpentine-kind.html

LINK: You'll never guess what I saw on my OBX vacation

...But simply looking for a sea creature does not make one appear. And for the first time, I understood the myth of the Loch Ness Monster - why people believe they have seen it. We are desperate for magic.

Then, to my right, among the whitecaps, I spotted a brown body making its way through the waves. It looked giant skimming the surface.

Read the full article...

A VERY ARCANE REQUEST

Are there any British comic book buffs out there? I am looking for a hi-res scan od Desperate Dan's neice Katie. If you can help, please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk

I'M THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

Another jolly day on the Gonzo Daily. My postbag was interesting this morning as it included the new Anthony Phillips album and the new Comus album.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-postbag.html
I am seriously looking forward to listening to both of them.

I spent much of yesterday afternoon listening to the new release from Ant-Bee, which is beguilingly good, and effortlessly sucks you in to its own schizoid soundscapes. Bizarrely there must be noises on there that I can't hear because Prudence (the dog) didn't like the album at all. She grunted in a bad tempered manner and waddled off to sleep in the kitchen.

Today's Blogpostings are many and various:

We have a real exclusive first of all with the third part of our interview with Erik Norlander, star of stage, screen and synthesiser:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/exclusive-erik-norlander-interview-part_16.html

Celtic rockers Iona have a new newsletter out:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/news-from-iona.html
And for those not in the know here is a brief glimpse of them on stage:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/iona-just-in-case-you-wanted-to-know.html

Mimi Page does get some very peculiar things written about her:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/mimi-page-peculiar-review-from-sweden.html
And she also has a remix contest thingy going on:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/mimi-page-remix-contest.html

We have a link to an interesting Chris Squire interview:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/link-interesting-chris-squire-interview.html

And a link to an insightful Troy Donockley review:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/link-interesting-troy-donockley-revies.html

And finally my old mucker Graham Inglis is let loose on the new Hawkwind album. But he did that weeks ago! I hear you complain. Aah yes. But that was a review for the novice - this is a review for yer hardcore Hawkwindophile:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/05/are-you-old-enough-to-have-gone-to.html

We will be back tomorrow, and this weekend watch out for an interview with Ant-Bee - possibly the most peculiar ensemble on Gonzo (and that is against some very strong opposition)...