White Yeti & Mutant Ready
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 5th, 2008
The Portland Phoenix’s Deirdre Fulton attended my talk today, and she just posted a flash review, here. It was a good crowd, and I appreciated the good introduction from local artist and library staff supervisor Michelle Souliere.
Michelle Souliere views Swanson’s White Yeti (a/k/a “Killing Moon”), when it was at Bates College’s Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale.
Fulton’s article reminded me of two things:
1) “All politics is local,” as longtime Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress Tip O’Neill would said. He, of course, was talking about how the concerns and focusses of the rural areas, towns and cities around the country affect the actions of their representatives and senators in Washington, D.C.
The same can be said of cryptozoology. Whatever goes on at the grassroots level has an impact on the global point of view of our field of study. It is insightful for me to see what reporter Fulton took away from my noontime presentation (here). Notice the cryptids she mentions in her post. It is intriguing to read her overview, and realize that it all does really begin locally.
I enjoyed the questions from the audience, as I always do. I am still pondering the one about why I don’t get up to Alaska to study Thunderbird reports or the inquiry from the gentleman who asked about how is it that I always seem to get to sightings so quickly. Hey, no moss is growing under my feet in the land of paradoxes.
2) Deirdre Fulton also reminded me that besides “Destination Truth’s” Yeti program being on at 10 pm Eastern on SciFi, there is a replay of “MonsterQuest : Mutant Canines” at 9 pm Eastern on the History Channel. I see it also repeats early Thursday, March 6, at 1 am Eastern.
Also late today, David Pescovitz posted on the “Evolution of Yeti imagery” at Boing Boing, and Henry Stokes commented on “In Conjunction with Cryptomundo.”
Some of my collection of popular cultural “white” Yetis.
Stokes posted the art work shown at the top, which wonderfully captures the battle between the white Abominable Snowman and the brown Yeti!
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
All LIFE is a paradox, Loren, so don’t sweat it…
What’s so special about Alaska and Thunderbirds, I wonder?
Nice Stokes artwork at the top, by the way!!!