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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, February 12, 2016

DAVE BRAUND PHILLIPS: a Dragon in Chiswick

Chinese New Year has just come around. This year is the year of the Monkey, one way it's being celebrated, is through a Lantern Festival I am working on in Chiswick House, London. The level of craftsmanship put in by the 32 strong Chinese team is out of this world, from my pictures below I hope you will get an idea of the beauty and skill involved in there construction. They have shaped, welded, covered, lit and painted everything from very life like, full size giraffes to a 66m long 10m high tradition Dragon. I think the Dragon in particular will be of interest to all us crypto fans!













BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Terrified Man Runs From Bigfoot
Charles Benton knows he saw a bigfoot, and when it turned and looked directly at him, he took off running. He didn't stop at his camp to gather his ...

Florida Bigfoot Hunter Shaken By Loud Beast-Like Breathing Close By
The woods can be a scary place, especially when you're searching for bigfoot. The mind is on high alert, and all your senses are working overtime.

Footage Caught of a Yeti: Is This Proof That Bigfoot Exists?!
A video has emerged which appears to show a Yeti or Bigfoot in Russia. Is the dark hairy creature seen in the film [below] the ever elusive Yeti?


Webcast Interview: Don "Biggyfoot" Neal
He has been fascinated with Bigfoot for a good portion of his life. Don is the lead investigator of the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization (KBRO) ...

The Spanish Yeti Footage
Recently a video went viral that shows a supposed yeti in the Pyrenees at the Formigal ski resort. Funny, it seems like an awful lot of yeti videos come ...

The Spanish Yeti Footage
Recently a video went viral that shows a supposed yeti in the Pyrenees at the Formigal ski resort. Funny, it seems like an awful lot of yeti videos come ...

The Pink Eyed Albino Bigfoot of Kentucky
But on rare occasions a white Bigfoot shows up. This is a type of encounter highly regarded by cryptozoologists and Sasquatch investigators.

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.


THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS AGAIN AND AGAIN

The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
 
This is a time of the year that always resonates with me because it is Chinese New Year, which was a public holiday in Hong Kong, and one of the annual highlights of my childhood. I was brought up in Hong Kong, as many of you know, And even now - 45 years after I lived there - I still dream in Cantonese, which was (as they say) my milk language. I was largely brought up by Chinese servants, and spoke Cantonese with them as much, if not before, I spoke English with my parents.
 
My dear nephew, David Braund-Phillips working on a Chinese Lantern Festival in Chiswick House, London. He writes: "The level of craftsmanship put in by the 32 strong Chinese team is out of this world. They have shaped, welded, covered, lit and painted everything from very life like, full size giraffes to a 66m long 10m high traditional Dragon."
 
And so the circle has gone fully around as it so often does.
 
It is the Year of the Monkey, and the world can apparently expect some particularly dynamic times. I look forward to them, depending on one's definition of the word "dynamic"...
 
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jon Anderson And You A...
Ray Koob Chats With Annie Haslam of Renaissance!
Five Zappa Songs For People Who Don’t Get Zappa
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Weekly #168
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
David Bowie, Rick Wakeman, Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Beatles, Dixie Dregs, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard,  Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
Following the overwhelming response to Rick Wakeman’s piano tribute to David Bowie, Rick has recorded new piano versions of both Life on Mars and Space Oddity with royalties going to Macmillan Cancer Support. Pete Sears pays tribute to his old friend Paul Kantner as does John Brodie-Good. Doug writes about the Dixie Dregs, while Jon gets all intense about positivity, and for once finds a Beatles book that he DOESN'T like. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Moloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressable Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
 
 
Lady Gaga, Colin Vearncombe, Primal Scream, Yoko Ono, Status Quo, ELO, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, Daevid Allen, Daevid Allen Weird Quartet, Barbara Dickson, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Signe Toly Anderson, Jon Bunch, Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE, Sir Michael Terence "Terry"  Wogan, KBE, DL, Maurice White, Joe Dowell, Inner City Unit, Brand X, Gregg Kofi Brown, Nucleus, Captain Beefheart, Third Ear Band, The Selecter, Genre Peak, Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster, Rick & Adam Wakeman,A Dixie Dregs, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, Dave Bainbridge, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Yes, Hawkwind, Pete Sears, Xtul, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Elton John, Neil Nixon, Ross Bolleter, Tengwar
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
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.co.uk
 
* 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 two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN 1554 - Lady Jane Grey was beheaded after being charged with treason. She had claimed the throne of England for only nine days. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Global warming might be causing dogs to become dep...
  • Discovery of 'Jurassic butterflies'
  • Bears' seasonal hibernation linked to changes in g...
  • Whale feared to be in trouble off Norfolk coast

  • Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’


  • 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)