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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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Friday, November 13, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES NOT LIKE FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
 
And so, my dears, another week has come and gone. I am not a particularly superstitious but I will admit to being paraskevidekatriaphobic, and today is Friday the Thirteenth and I will be the first to admit that I am on edge because things are—as they always do—going wrong.
 
According to Wikipedia Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "three", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number 13 and avoidance to use it; it is a superstition and related to the specific fear of the 13th person at the Last Supper being Judas, who betrayed Jesus Christ and ultimately hanged himself. It is also a reason for the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia (from Παρασκευή Paraskevi, Greek for Friday) or friggatriskaidekaphobia (after Frigg, the Norse goddess after whom Friday is named in English).
 
My personal reasons for disliking the date reach back to my first days at Primary School back in Hong Kong when a teacher told us (one Friday 13th) that the belief in bad luck on this day was just a silly superstition. I had never actually heard of this before, but as an avid believer that all I was told by those in authority was wrong, I went on to have a particularly bad day (think hurting myself in an accident followed by a bout of physical chastisement from my paterfamilias) and I have disliked the day ever since.
 
There. I have shared one of my deepest, darkest and silliest secrets with you.
 
COMING TOMORROW
Another Slice of Life at Belper venue
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
The Magic Band: Beatle boots, surf bands and the B...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Satoko Fujii piano sol...
 
Gonzo Weekly #155
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Pink Fairies, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#155) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has the legendary Pink Fairies on the cover and in depth coverage of their recent London and Wolverhampton gigs inside. Doug goes to see Dungen,Jon critiques a fascinating new Biography of the Beach Boys, Dave McMann looks at the new Frank Zappa Roxy movie, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another from Mack Moloney. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
 
This issue features:
 
Nelson deMille, Pink Fairies, Noel Gallagher, One Direction, Glenn Frey, Keith Richards, Quadrophenia, Tom Jones, Barbara Dickson, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Wilson, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Mihai Alexandru, Constantin Ignat, Adrian Rugena, Vlad Telea, Lauentiu Varlan, Tommy Overstreet, Raul Rekow, Nucleus, The RAZ band, Mark Murdock, Brand X, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Tim Rundall, Jeremy Smith, John Brodie Smith, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Dave McMann, Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Dead Fred, Ian Abrahams, Xtul, The Beach Boys, Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, Wham!, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Prince, The Beatles, Kiss, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, AndersonPonty, Rick Wakeman, Geoff
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
 
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
 
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
 
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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 young lady called Jessica. 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 infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

Well, everything, actually!

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



A Closer Look At The North Carolina Dog Saves Man From Bigfoot Video
Zippy the Yorkie has taken off, and we don't mean after bigfoot. This little dog and the bigfoot video he's in has gone viral. It's all over the place, and ...

Bigfoot Captured: Something Eerie in the Woods | History Channel
The Internet is buzzing about the History Channel's fake bigfoot documentary Bigfoot Captured. The film was created with the same style as previous.

Art Bell Speaks With Two Experts On Bigfoot Sounds And Language
Art Bell talks to two researchers who have captured what they believe to be the Sounds of Bigfoot on Midnight In The Desert. (Sounds of Bigfoot ...

READER VIDEO
Reader-submitted documentary about an amateur bigfoot hunter venturing out from his parents' backyard and yelling things in the dark.

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



Aberdeen Press and Journal

When Highland tourism bosses heard of her plight, they invited Jo to world famous Loch Ness and the chance to see its elusive inhabitant – Nessie.

Video) First Seen in 1933; Is The British Government Hiding The Loch Ness Monster?
The Loch Ness Monster was first reported being seen November 12, 1933, and since then th emystery has just grown bigger and bigger. Now the ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN 1940 - The Walt Disney movie "Fantasia" had its world premiere at New York's Broadway Theater. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Faster digestion in kangaroos reduces methane emis...
  • Stop crowding around rutting deer, photographers a...
  • More than 11,000 crocodiles and lions doomed to st...
  • Outrage as endangered tiger shot dead by hunter wh...
  • 'Fire frogs' and eel-like amphibians: The Field Mu...

  • Butterfly mimicry through the eyes of bird predato...

  • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)