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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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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN FALLS OFF










The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

How's this for inefficient bureaucracy? As regular readers of my inky-fingered scribblings (both here and elsewhere) will know, we have been having problems with our internet access, and these problems have been compounded with not just having to deal with what is euphemistically known as 'The Festive Season', but also with the fact that my ISP seems to operate via a call centre somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, manned by fellows who address me as "Mr Dow-nes" (rhyming with COW-PRESS) or "Mr Jonathan", and who seem to only have the vaguest idea where or what North Devon is. Earlier this week we managed to finally book a visit by an engineer, for this Thursday. Two days later the confirmation e-mail arrived, but they got the address wrong and had the visit scheduled for next door. So Graham rang them - a process that took most of the day as he kept on being informed that his call was important to them and was in a queue - but when he eventually got through to what seemed like a living human being, he was informed that they couldn't possibly change the address on the 'job order docket', but that they would have to cancel, and the engineer's visit would be rescheduled for the 16th. That is 10 more days, which beggars belief.

On more pleasant news, one of my Christmas presents from my lovely wife was a copy of Jaroslav Hašek's immortal book, The Good Soldier Švejk. I am reading it again for the first time in thirty years, and laughing uproariously. I don't think I have ever read a funnier book, and each evening I sit in my favourite armchair with Archie curled up on my lap and read another few chapters. Truly, despite my ISP, life is pretty good.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_7.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Detective
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-detective.html

Clepsydra Tour Dates
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/updated-clepsydra-tour-dates.html

Belgian Sky Architect review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/sky-architect-belgium-review-translated.html

Belgian review of Mick Farren/Andy Colquhoun
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/belgian-mick-farrenandy-colquhoun-review.html

The Daily Music Break: King Crimson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-daily-music-break-king-crimson.html


* 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: www.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 and sometimes a small Indian frog. 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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