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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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Monday, September 26, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPES FOR A BETTER WEEK

The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
This morning I got up early because I had a doctor's appointment for my annual meds review. I got up considerably earlier than usual so that I made sure that I didn't oversleep. At just before nine there was a telephone call from the surgery to remind me. This has never happened before, so my paranoia was working overtime and by the time I got to the surgery I had convinced myself that there was terrible news that they just had to tell me in person. Of course there wasn't and I had put myself through all sorts of horrors for nothing. It just goes to show that thinking is not always a good thing to do.
This afternoon Chloe was here and managed to organise me into some sort of efficiency, so the day was not all lost. This evening, however, after a conference call at sevenish I intend to hide with the new Focus album and some pudding. I think I deserve it.
And now for the news................
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Hillage - Solar ...
ROGER DEAN AND MORE
GONG REVEAL THE UNSPEAKABLE TO STEVE DAVIS
Wild Man Fischer – An Evening with Wild Man Fische...
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
Gonzo Magazine #201
The spirit of the blues is alive, well and living in the Northeast of England: we meet Auld Man’s  Baccie, Jon burbles about Deep Purple, Doug talks to Happy the Man drummer Michael Beck, Alan goes to Strummerville to discover the legacy of Clash guitarist Joe Strummer, and we discover the frightening dystopian world of G P Ching, and say goodbye to Bob the Mbuna cichlid.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive. and 'cos there has just been a full moon Matthew at Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside 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:
Deep Purple, John Ellis, Datura4, The Embrooks, The Prophet Hens, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, David Bowie, Elton John,  Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury san Frontieres, John D Loudermilk, Jerry Corbetta, Carlos Walker, Martin Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman, Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano, Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, Auld Man's Baccie, Michael Beck, Alan Dearling, Joe Strummer, Strummerville, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Hawklords, Xtul, G P Ching, The Beatles, The Who, Pink, Neil Nixon,
Chinga Chavin
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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 57 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?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:



Bigfoot Is The Only Explanation For This
Pennsylvania Sasquatch Research put together this video trailer of some of the findings of their investigations. A full video will be released at a later ...

Bigfoot Interaction In Florida
From the Trail To Bigfoot team in Florida comes this evidence video. Things are starting to borderline creepy. Is sasquatch really to blame for these ...

Bigfoot On The Family Farm
Visit us at sasquatchchronicles.com! Tonight we speak to a listener who grew up on a farm. Over several weeks he noticed animals that either came ...

Two Bigfoot Team Up On One Investigator
Two bigfoot have Jonathan Odom running around on a wild goose chase in the wilds of Alabama. An error occurred. Try watching this video on ...

Take A Look At What The Revolving Bigfoot Camera Captured
Bigfoot investigator Robert Dodson posted the following footage from his revolving bigfoot cam. The camera is mounted in a cage that is suspended ...

Mississippi Bigfoot Caught On Video?
Bono Russell and M.B.E.S.T. captured a possible Mississippi bigfoot on camera. Check out the video for that and some of their other evidence, and ...

Couple Spots Huge Bigfoot Crossing Road
One of the encounters on Sunday will be with a witness who saw one run across the road, jump and clear a 6 foot embankment. The witness and her ...

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.






THYLACINE NEWS



Benjamin – the last known thylacine on earth – was locked out of his shelter, and not for the first time. As the mist rolled down from Mt Wellington and ...


A new new video doing the rounds online claims to provide evidence of a living thylacine, a species that's supposed to be extinct. But before you get ...

Another Thylacine sighting
"We believe this a thylacine, caught on camera at dusk in South West Victoria in 2008. The animal is approximately 200 metres from the DV camera.


Many experts think that this video, released by the Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia, is the strongest evidence the animals still roam the planet.




The Gumtree user, known as Will from Hectorville, posted the ad online with the title 'Wanted: Thylacine' under the Pets and Dogs category 

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1918 - During World War I, the Meuse-Argonne offensive against the Germans began. It was the final Allied offensive on the western front. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Kill them with cuteness: The adorable thing bats d...
  • How humans create as well as destroy species
  • Giant Anaconda Skin Stokes Mystery of Maine’s Elus...
  • These New Inventions Could Help Stop Wildlife Smug...
  • Skye's Storr Lochs Monster fossil unveiled in Edin...
  • Giant pandas rebound off endangered list
  • Placenta in females, muscle mass in males: Dual he...



  • 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)