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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, January 19, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS....

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
 
It's Sunday again, blimey wouldn't you know it
and its time for me to be a poet
cos each week regular readers find
I do the Gonzo blogs in rhyme
 
So what that last verse's final line
wasn't exactly a perfect rhyme
if any of you wanna take that stance,
haven't you heard of an assonance?
 
So buckle in and off we go
first there's my latest webTV show
which is totally off topic, but serves a valuable purpose
and features my ma-in-law being pee'd on by a tortoise
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/for-those-of-you-interested-in-such.html
 
And next in a very little while
Michael Des Barres meets Belinda Carlisle
which should be great folks, don't you know?
it's on his very own radio show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/michael-des-barres-meets-belinda.html
 
Frank Zappa's music sometimes hurt
here's a feature on his LP 'Sleep Dirt'
check it out guys, or if you'd rather
its part of his magnum opus Läther
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/35-years-ago-frank-zappa-releases-sleep.html
 
Barbara Dickson's just begun
celebrating the songs of WW1
songs about Germans and Russians and Frenchies
and mustard gas and guns and trenches
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/barbara-dickson-on-album-of-songs-from.html
 
The Gonzo Track of the Day today
is by Rick Wakeman shout hooray!
the maestro of the piano keys
he can't half tinkle those ivories
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-rick-wakeman.html
 
Thom the World Poet's a really good guy
read his poem's you'll understand why
and we've a rhyme from him today
you know what I mean wayhay!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html
 
And finally you know what I mean
the latest Gonzo Weekly magazine
is out to read edited by me
and boys and girls it remains free
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/gonzo-weekly-magazine-601.html
 
This issue contains the legendary Merrell Fankhauser reminiscing about Captain Beefheart and an encounter with the Manson Family, what happened when Michael Des Barres met the 'Hendrix of the Cello', a new album for Yes, a look at the legendary 'Lamb lies down on Broadway' album by Genesis, unpublished photographs showing Liz Lenten as some sort of superhero, exciting news for Hawkwind fans, and columns by C J Stone and Doug Harr. There is the new XNA video and a photograph of Archie the Jack Russell dressed as Sherlock Holmes. There is also more news, reviews, gossip and general rambling than you can shake a stick at!
 
And its completely free. Check it out:
http://eepurl.com/Mr2Yz
 
Or make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
 
*  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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