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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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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
 
Last week Corinna bought an extra large water bowl for Prudence and put it on the kitchen floor next to Bard's (her pet crow) indoor aviary thing. The bowl is bright pink, and Bard went off his food entirely and stopped all vocalisations until it was taken away. I am amazed how the advent of one piece of moulded plastic could have such a dramatic result.
 
Weird huh?
 
Sad news for those following the comings and goings of the CFZ menage, Chester the huge black goldfish that Beth gave us last May died suddenly yesterday morning. It was a shock to us, because not only were we very fond of him, but he had been swimming around happily the night before.
 
There are two of us attempting to write deathless prose in the potato shed today. Professor Jon's Academy for Young Ladies is open for business today, with LMP (Little Miss Pupil) working diligently in the corner of the office.
 
Hey ho.
 
And here is the news:
 
Frank Zappa - Interview - 12/8/1984 - unknown (Off...
Captain Beefheart - Paul Moyer KABC-TV Eyewitness ...
CD Review: Pink Fairies Return After 30 Years To B...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "San Franciscan Nights.
 
Gonzo Magazine #217
THE FINALLY WE GET BACK TO WHATEVER PASSES FOR NORMAL ISSUE
 
We talk to Doug Harr about his exciting new book about Los Angeles rock concerts, Alan meets Kelbassas, John remembers the Human Be In, Roy looks forward to another year with That Legendary Wooden Lion, our old friend Kev Rowland returns with more reviews, and The Famous Five give up the Booze plus Hawkwind news, The Gardening Club and gum boots full of more...
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. 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:
 
Glenn Hughes, Black Country Communion, Radio Stars, U2, David Byrne, Talking Heads, Who, David Bowie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tony Iommi, Kelly Osbourne, Fleetwood Mac, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Peter Eardley Sarstedt, Edward Leilani "Eddie" Kamae, Armando "Buddy" Greco, Lamar Dupré Calhoun, Tommy Allsup, Anthony "Tony" Booth, Larry Steinbachek, The Pioneer Cabin Tree, Absolute Elsewhere feat Bill Bruford, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic Rooster, Lord Buckley, Tony Ashton & Jon Lord, Adrian Legg, Rocking' the City of Angels, Doug Harr, Alan Dearling, Kelbassas, John Brodie-Good, The Summer of Love, The Human Be-In, Kev Rowland, Its.True.Mentality, Izz, Jolly, Karnataka, Konchordat, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Robert Calvert, Martin Springett, Enid Blyton, Bill Haley, The Beatles, Elvis, Beatles, Neil Nixon, Cosmic Rough RiderS
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)
Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)
Issue 212 (Greg Lake)
Issue 211 (Phil Collins)
Issue 210 (Nico)
Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 207 (Tibet)
Issue 206 (Raz)
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
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 a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



Historical Society has a presentation called “Bigfoot in Wisconsin”
The Dunn County Historical Society has a presentation called "Bigfoot in Wisconsin" set for January 21 which explores Bigfoot sightings and the lore of ...

Bigfoot Researchers field questions, and talk about the encounters and stories that led them to their conclusions, including an incident where a bigfoot ...

Hunter in Montana Shoots Bigfoot! (Video)
Phill shot a Bigfoot while hunting in Montana. He also has had other Sasquatch encounters while out on the ranch earning a living. The Bigfoot he ...

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.



NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands." 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Why a Seawall in Flagler Beach Could Harm Sea Turt...
  • Bees prefer warm violets in cool forests, scientis...
  • Caribbean bats need 8 million years to recover fro...
  • First US bumblebee species listed as endangered af...


  • 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.)