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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

JON JOINS THE RAG TRADE (amongst other things)

For years we had an online store at cafepress.com, but as the recession hit, sales dwindled and it soon ran out of money. It cost about four quid a month to maintain, and when the `cafecash` (monies paid for merchandise) ran out, the store was closed. It had other disadvantages as well. It would only pay out in dollars, for example, and the products were, to my mind, overly expensive.

I have been vaguely looking for a UK based substitute for some months and last night, being unable to sleep for some reason, I stayed up all night working. With my fingers firmly crossed I opened an account with Zazzle; a company of which I had heard good reports, and which seemed to offer the best (and most economic) service; and I transferred some of the artwork across.

Here it is:

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/cfzjon*



What do you think? I have kept the prices as low as I can. What else would you like to see there? (Sensible answers only s'il vouz plait - the Richard Freeman knickers are unlikely to be re-issued...)

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