Happy 12th
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 10th, 2006
The Crookston Bigfoot with some guy in front of him, 2005, photographed by friend and author Joe Citro.
This Wednesday, July 12th, is my birthday. I’m planning now for a big cryptozoology party in 2007, for my 60th (which feels really young to me, of course).
Therefore, today, I am going to get personal, and publish my wish list a year ahead of time (you know, beyond good health and wellness wishes for my sons, friends, former lovers, family, and all Cryptomundo readers).
Click the above photo for a full-size version of Jeffrey Vallance presenting his Bigfoot Diagram to me at the recent June 24th opening of the Bates exhibition. Photo by Raechell Smith.
Anyway, onward to a fun collecting of my thoughts in many directions…for my…
2007 Wish List
1. Witness the discovery of a remarkable (as opposed to mundane?) unknown bipedal hominoid, such as Sasquatch, Orang Pendek, or Yeti.
2. Have concrete physical evidence obtained of Nessie, Champ, or another Lake Monster, that demonstrates DNA uniqueness.
3. Find a firm location that wishes to freely house my cz collection, the future expanded cryptozoology museum, through a working partnership with an organization in Portland, Maine.
4. See the publication of a dozen more excellent cryptozoology books, beyond my own, of course.
5. Experience the full development of several ideas bouncing around in my head. And get contracts or consulting agreements for them, so I don’t have to ask so many of my friends for bridge loans, all the time. 🙂
6. Meet more future cryptozoologists at several conferences, including finding sponsorship for a trip to talk at the 2007 Australian cryptozoology conference.
7. Continue to communicate the best in cryptozoology news via Cryptomundo, with new bloggers, associates, and readers.
8. Obtain a free Yeti Skoda to drive around and promote, even if it has to have an Abominable Snowman painted on its side. (I love my old station wagon, but it is beginning to crumble as it passes the decade mark.)
9. Make it to Alaska, thus completing my goal of visiting all 50 of the states of the USA.
That’s Jim McClarin’s Bigfoot along with me, 1975. Photo by lost friend Mandy Mann.
10. Finally, be surprised and remain passionate about all my quests.
BTW, for those that asked, here’s my address:
Loren Coleman
PO Box 360
Portland, ME 04112
Everyone have a great week. My thanks to all of my new friends I’ve met through Cryptomundo for already making it a good year.
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.
DUDE! That’s weird. I think the 12th might be a pretty common birthday. !^:?
I was recently on a train in New York, going past the Hudson, when I saw a black lump, not unlike the shape of the top of a Tanystropheid’s skull move SE in the water and then submerge. It was black and I think I saw eyes near the front. (No Pic) :.(
I would like to wish my good friend and Cryptomundo partner Loren Coleman a happy 59th birthday.
Let’s hope your wish list comes true for next year…
Happy early birthday, Loren. Hope it’s a good one. Keep up the great work, sir. I hope there are many more birthdays.
Hooray hooray! One of the best wishlists I’ve seen in a while. Hope many of them come true in the coming year! 🙂
Happy Birthday Loren….from one old fart to another…may you have an encounter of the hairy kind….
I’m amazed at the folks who carry on the quest…with only their faith to guide them….I’m not that tough.
all the best…
Steve Summar
hey loren happy birthday i hope you to continue to post articles about cryptozoology animals etc in cryptomundo. and i hope you write more new books about cryptozoology as well. thanks bill 🙂
hey loren, just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. i am reading your book, Bigfoot! now, and hope there will be more to come. cheers, – Dustin
Happy Birthday Loren.
(You know, I remember that 1975 photo from one of my dad’s books when I was a kid. I was born in 1975 by the way.)
I wish you a very happy birthday Loren. I hope all your wishes come true.
Love tabitca xx
P.S. all the best people are born in July 😉
Happy B’Day, Loren!
Happy birthday to a great man and a great friend. Somebody give that boy a birthday swattin’!
Happy B-Day Loren on my wish list is to someday be able to meet you and talk some crypto. I hope every thing on your list comes true.
HAPPY B-DAY!! I pray your wishes come true and thank you for being a teacher and researcher of things that most people do not believe in simply cause they don’t see them. I don’t know too much, but I love researching all this and I declare you a cryptozoologist NINJA MASTER. Keep up the freshness and make mine cryptomundo!!! Sincerely, Harley Brenner.
Happy Early Birthday Loren! Keep bringing us the best in Crypto-News, and just maybe we will forget the birthday swattin’!!! Once Again, Happy Birthday!
A Big Happy Birthday to our Crypto-Guru.
Sixty years isn’t old.
When you get to be 80, you’ll look back at 60 and say, darn… that WAS a young period in my life… and I can’t remember who mentioned that, back then.
Hmmm!!
All the very best, and may you have enough fire insurance on your house when you light those cake candles. WDT.
Congratulations Loren and Happy Birthday! Never realized that we were the same age….Gee, why do I feel so old?
Best Wishes,
Rick Moran
Happy Birthday.
To my brother, I am so proud of.
Wishing you a “Very Happy Birthday”
I wish I could be there with you. I’m sending all my LOVE to you!!! Have a Great Special Day today!!
Love you, Susan
Belated birthday wishes. You’re older than I am!! HAH! Why do you look younger than I?
May all your wishes come true. I’m going to ask for new car speakers for my 43rd…. September 23rd…..