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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 08, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH BAND HOPS

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
 

It's Sunday, I must be getting old
cos once again I have a cold
I don't know if its new today
or if the last one never went away
 
so quaffing lemsip much of the time
as I sit down to write deathless rhymes
it's my Sunday treat, I must not miss
to do the Gonzo blogs like this
 
Issue 55 of our magazine
(I'm sure you know the one I mean)
with Jaki Windmill and XNA
is out there on the web today
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/gonzo-weekly-magazine-55.html
 
Each day we visit Texas Thom
who's been writing poetry for so long
and before you look at me askance,
that second line's an assonance
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html
 
33 years ago today
John Lennon was shot and taken away
and a third of a century on
not a day goes by that I don't miss John
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john-lennon.html
 
Political plotting! I bet you can't guess
but politicians are conspiring to help Yes
after 44 years at the top of their game
to get in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/political-strategists-plot-to-get-yes.html
 
The post we have coming up next
is a press release about Brand X
and Percy Jones whom just talked to me
Gonzo are releasing some rare CDs
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/gonzo-multimedia-to-release-rare-cds-by.html
 
And finally for you to dwell upon
an interview with Jon Anderson
who at the age of nearly seventy
knows how to produce a great CD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/rockin-rich-lynch-on-radio-show-025.html
 
[NB: Just in case you wondered why we are so late today, it has been animal rescue time again. This time an 8in New Guinea freshwater lobster)
 
*  The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

*  The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
 
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

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