February 5, 2008, is Super Tuesday. What is being called a historical, nearly national, primary for American politics will be a great day for pinback button collectors. But where are the humorous cryptid collectibles? I have conducted almost 50 years of investigating cryptozoology throughout America and the world, and devoted a sizable amount of time in preserving popular culture cz items along the way. I’ve picked up every tangible object I could obtain on Bigfoot and a universe of varied cryptids, needless to say, and now they are in the museum, or awaiting display in storage. Little known to most [...]
New Subspecies Discovery in Nepal
Nepali scientists have recorded a new subspecies of bird – Nepal Rufous-vented Prinia – at Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) recently. Photo Courtesy: BCN According to Bird Conservation Nepal, the bird first recorded by chairperson of Nepal Rare Birds Committee (NRBC) Suchit Basnet and ornithologist Badri Chaudhary on April 1, 2005 at Koshi Tappu. The birds have now been identified as Rufous-vented Prinia, bringing Nepal’s total bird list to 862 species. Belonging to Prinia burnesii species, the new bird has been named Nepal Rufous-vented Prinia or Prinia burnesii nipalensis scientifically. Basnet said, “This must have been the most exciting bird [...]
Super Bigfoot Sunday?
Actually, Bigfoot does not seem to be part of Super Bowl Sunday for 2008. The game is in Arizona, so even the “off-the-field” media attention is not on any version of the Southwestern Sasquatch. Or even Skinwalkers. The news organizations could have interviewed some locals (Natives and others) in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah on Skinwalkers, couldn’t they? But noooo. Right after the game, the news organizations will turn their cameras back in the direction of the “Super Tuesday” (also called “Super Duper Tuesday” and “Super Tsunami Tuesday”) primary races. As far as cultural cryptofiction impact, the superbad film Strange [...]
Last Weekend for ABSM’s 30% Discount, Postpaid
The sale ends in five days. Time is running out to get this huge HARDBACK book directly from me, autographed, for $10 cheaper than it will cost to buy it online or in stores right now, plus with free postage to any American address. Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life has been republished in hardback by Cosimo during January 2008. You can secure your copy at a deep discount through February 5th (some people have told me they needed to get their first-of-the-month checks). The choice is yours. You can obtain this 525 page book [...]
Hunting Utah’s Giant Beavers and Loch Ness Otters
Okay, you can’t watch wall-to-wall pre-game coverage of the Super Bowl, can you? You shouldn’t take in too many replays of every debate spark that flew last week, should you? Tired of the nonstop football and election articles, internet highlights, and television analysis ~ not to mention what’s up with Britney lately? Take some time to revisit the lake monsters, folks. They miss you. There is a brand new review of The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003) published by epinions. It is always encouraging to read intelligent critiques [...]
Nyet Strange Wilderness, Si Lara Croft and The Mummy
Talk about a movie drowning in its own swampy mess! I jokingly call for and strongly petition Bigfoot to be removed from this movie, for heaven’s sake, because Bigfoot does not deserve this film. That wasn’t funny, was it? Well, neither is this movie! This may be the worst film to have a Sasquatch in it since the biker flicks made for the drive-in outdoor theaters during the 1970s. The reviews are in and they are not pretty. MSNBC captured it straightforwardly in their review’s headline, “Strange Wilderness scrapes bottom,” and then their subheadline, “Screenwriters seem to have no time [...]
Water Horse Invades Japan
I have a feeling that the promotion of Water Horse in Japan is being handled much differently than it was in the USA, where the creature was treated as if it could be your bathtub pet. Here is video of the amazing hologram that was recently created off Tokyo to acknowledge the release of the film in Japan. Sources: Odaiba; Endgadget; The Anomalist.
Opens Today: Strange Wilderness
Strange Wilderness opens on February 1, 2008. How it will play in comic cryptofiction cinematic history remains to be seen. Do you think there is any reason that this often-delayed movies was slotted for Football Super Bowl weekend for release? Is there not much hope this will be the comedy blockbuster it was once forecast to be? Did you like it? Does it work as humor? How does the search for Bigfoot come off in the film? Inquiring minds want to know. The plot is about animal enthusiasts who try to help the ratings of their TV reality animal show [...]
Fiji Lordomyrma Discovered
Lordomyrma vanua Lucky & Sarnat 2008: Fiji image by A. Lucky & E. Sarnat The discovery of new insects are a dime a dozen, so to speak. I tend to agree with Bernard Heuvelmans that an animal has to be large enough to have an impact on humans, visibly, to be a cryptid. The cryptids we deal with daily are usually domestic cat-sized and bigger. However, I was struck by the attractive nature of the above new ant discovery and felt it was worth sharing its photograph here. As the Myrmecos blog (link below) mentions, Zootaxa contained a short paper [...]
New Giant: First Elephant-Shrew In 126 Years
Grey-faced sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis. Photo credit: Francesco Rovero. “This is one of the most exciting discoveries of my career,” said Galen Rathbun of the California Academy of Sciences. Rathbun’s and Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento, Italy, Francesco Rovero’s discovery is published in the February issue of the British-based Journal of Zoology. Although there is unquestionably much left to be discovered about life on Earth, charismatic animals like mammals are usually well documented, and it is rare to find a new species today—especially from a group as intriguing as the elephant-shrews, monogamous mammals found only in Africa with a colorful [...]
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