Showing posts with label Sasquatch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sasquatch. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

BIGFOOT'S BLOG'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! BIGFOOTER TO RETIRE?


Well, today is the
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
of our humble
BIGFOOT'S BLOG!

A whole year, in which we could have written at least one book with this material, and gotten rich and famous, for sure. But no, we persisted in obscurity, eventually gaining over 13, 000 web hits on our oblique Bigfoot musings and goofy Sasquatchian rantings. It's been a fun ride so far, and we thank you ALL for reading!

Frankly, we now grow a bit tired of The Bigfoot Wars, of Bigfoot Controversy, of the constant Blobsquatches, of all of that. We never want to hear the word, "massacre," again! It's been a full ten years now since we began to take a more serious interest in Sasquatching, since we had our first potential Encounter. We still love Bigfoot, but...

BUT NOW, we are thinking we might just retire...
 ...into UFOlogy!!!
 At least a stranger weirdo book nerd is more likely to meet an available woman companion in that field!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!
Here's hoping that 2010 is a better year, with no recession, no wars, nor human cruelty, and no... no Bigfoot massacres!

Best to all of you OUT THERE,
Steve
Bigfoot Books, Willow Creek, CA
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"Anybody who says that agencies of the United States government are not witholding information about flying saucers are either lying, ignorant, or both."
-- Stanton Friedman, UFO Researcher

Image to left: Found on the internet, original source and artist UNKNOWN.














The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial, by denying the truth of the documents that have leaked. By attempting to show them as fraudulent, as bogus of some sort. There has been a very large disinformation and misinformation effort around this whole area. And one must wonder, how better to hide something out in the open than just to say, 'It isn't there. You're deceiving yourself if you think this is true.' And yet, there it is right in front of you. So it's a disinformation effort that's concerning here, not the fact that they have kept the secret. They haven't kept it. It's been getting out into the public for fifty years or more.

--Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

NOW, TAKE A STEP BACK AND THINK ABOUT HOW THE ABOVE QUOTE MIGHT APPLY TO... SASQUATCH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO AND PRESENTATION IN MAINSTREAM CULTURE!


Images above: two classic cinematic saucers and one "ancient astronaut" from the Renaissance.

STILL OUR FAVORITE RADIO SHOW, since 1989:
COAST-TO-COAST A.M.! (And yes, they DO have Bigfoot on there.)


Oh Lordy, but do we ever miss THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS!

A friend of ours, perhaps concerned, sent us the following message. We quote:
Steve, To find true happiness, you really need to find yourself a woman who is as versed in Bigfootology as you. Where and when was the last credible sighting of Bigfoot in your esteemed opinion?
Where was the last credible sighting of a woman Bigfootologist?

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Bigfoot Miscellany 1: Simpsons Sasquatch, Trinity County Statuary, Gimlin Art

Bigfoot on the Simpsons!

In the Simpsons TV show's first season Homer and Bart go feral, dressing in leaves and roaming the forest. Then Homer decides to eat honey... from the hive. Needless to say, he becomes a Bigfoot after rolling in some mud to escape the bees' attack, and enters the annals of tabloid journalism history. Actually, this episode displays well the way hype and hyperbole, rather than reason, dominate the coverage of the Sasquatch topic.











Not quite the Patterson-Gimlin Film!











Poor Homer. Now he knows how Bigfoot feels!











It appears as "raw video" on the news. Blatant tabloid exploitation!!
Watch it HERE online... OOOPS! UPDATE: They've removed that video from the site. Try this one instead, "I MARRIED BIGFOOT"



And now some images gathered on the way back from the Yakima Bigfoot Round-Up....
TRINITY COUNTY, DEL LOMA: Bigfoot is known to roam in Trinity, just east of Willow Creek on Highway 299. Keep your eyes out for the creature along the roadside. A fishing Bigfoot and a bigfoot sign are found at a campground and RV park there.


BIGFOOT RAFTING puts in rafts there, too. It is a good starting point for a trip downstream that includes "Hell Hole," a wicked rapid.

Coming on in to Willow Creek one may visit the fairly recently opened BIGFOOT CONTRACTOR'S SUPPLY. They have a few BF curios in there.

BONUS FEATURE:
Here is some interesting rope artwork that old-time cowboy BOB GIMLIN made; here a piece given out as a doorprize at the Yakima event. Very cool! A sort of cowboy lariat Native American dream-catcher, with bandana, boot and... inverse pentagram!

All for now. The next Bigfoot Miscellany will cover more BIGFOOT HUMOR, plus images from the Squatchy little Siskiyou town of HAPPY CAMP.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Ape Canyon by Jon Olsen, brief film review; plus Zombies of Eureka Update




Some months ago Humboldt County filmmaker Jon Olsen visited Bigfoot Books. He is the maker of the fabulously silly b-movie, APE CANYON, about love, sex and death in the Wild. The film is highly amusing; but serious researchers of Bigfoot might want to take my brief review of his film, below, with a grain of salt lick.
APE CANYON
Price: $16.99; on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/APE-CANYON/dp/B0007CQ528/ref=cm_cr-mr-title

Bigfoot: North America's Greatest Lover!, March 31, 2008

This is a work of pure comic genius. It is backed by extensive research into the more extreme aspects of the Sasquatch in popular culture, substantiated by Native American lore centuries old. Yes, there is a history of inter-species hominid communality. The soundtrack music constitutes a masterfully applied parody, moving from love-comedy, through pornography, to tragedy. Though made on an obviously low budget, that is part of the point--this film is a satire of human romantic motivation as much as it is of the b-movie bigfoot monster genre. If you meet the filmmaker he will probably give you a promotional t-shirt, which is even cooler than the film. Its climactic ending made me weep.


UPDATE!!! (Feb. 24, 2010)
There's more to Humboldt County than Bigfoot and marijuana. In ZOMBIES OF EUREKA Jon Olsen searches for another cryptid "life" form. View this suite of zombie-themed music videos he did for local area alternative bands here:
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1527776025/