LAKE AND SEA MONSTER NEWS
The hunt for Lake and Sea Monsters is probably the most iconic branch of Cryptozoology. Following our successful Mystery Cat and BHM Study Groups, we feel that these sightings should also be archived and published in a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead
MOST NESSIE SIGHTINGS IN THIRTY YEARS
SOUTH CAROLINA LAKE MONSTER
Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.
Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson
`CHINESE "BIGFOOT" TRACKS
BIGFOOT ON TRAFFIC CAM
HOOD RIVER SIGHTING
THE GO0NZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS BACK IN THE JUG AGANE
And so today we lumber into some semblance of readiness for the new year. I didn't actually stop over the so-called Festive Season, taking only a day here and a day there, but even now we are shockingly behind. The newsletter (due yesterday) the new magazine (due tomorrow) and a placeholder episode of OTT (due yesterday) will be out soon, although I am not promising when. However, today, Corinna and Graham and I have an inaugural meeting with the Funeral Director (I gather than they do not like to be referred to as 'Undertakers' anymore) and so less is likely to be accomplished on the Home Front than I would have liked, but I suspect that this is going to become a familiar scenario as January progresses.
Thank you to all of you who have sent kind words and prayers to us following Mother's death. They are very much appreciated. Please forgive us for keeping a low profile at the moment.
YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-ta-is-colourful.html
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-tangerine-dream.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Tangerine Dream -- Pha...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/01/interview-with-hawkwind-hrh-prog-2018.html
Interview with Hawkwind HRH Prog 2018
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/01/sometimes-i-feel-less-than-useless-at.html
"Sometimes I feel less than useless at these sessi...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/01/auditioning-for-frank-zappa.html
AUDITIONING FOR FRANK ZAPPA
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html
THE GONZO PRIVACY POLICY
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
Gonzo Weekly #369/70
THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE
This is another of those issues in which I have been overtaken by events. Corinna was unexpectedly and urgently admitted to hospital on Thursday afternoon, and subsequently has operations on both her kidneys. If her obs improve markedly she may be out on Monday but we are not counting on it.
Her latest blood results show no change, but whether or not there should have been changes twelve hours after the operation I cannot comment. She appears to be in good spirits. Once again, thank you for all your kind comments and support I am going to try and keep the blogs and things going, and I hope that you will forgive me both for the lateness of this issue, and for the fact that the news pages, radio shows and the clickable links are missing.
I will keep everyone posted about what is happening, and I would like to think that the next issue of this magazine will come out more or less on schedule
Many of you have told me to forget about everything else but Corinna until she is out of hospital, but leaving things that need to be done is bad for my mental health, so I will work as much as I can, as much for my own sanity than for any other reason. But again thank you for all that you have done for us.
Love and a Happy Christmas.
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Fronieres AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Srange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Mr Biffo, and one from C J Stone, and one from Neil Nixom but Roy Weard, is on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, 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!!!
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-351-2-fvxuatzgf.html
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 60 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 his lovely wife Corinna and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
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