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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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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

RICHARD FREEMAN: The Romance of the Televisual Arts

I was recently aproached by a company called Edge TV who asked me if I wanted to appear on a show called On The Edge. It appears on Controversial TV on Sky Channel 200. I'd never heard of the channel or the show, but crop circle master Matt Williams had been on and recommended them to me. The programme didn't pay but it was two hours of live TV, so I decided to go.

The studios were located on an industrial estate in exotic Milton Keynes. Built in the 1960s and 70s, Milton Keynes is a town with no history. Its an odd feeling to be in a quite sizeable town where none of the buildings are much over four decades old.

I was met by Theo Chalmers who would be interviewing me. He seemed well informed and genuinely interested. Among the other staff was 'Widget' a 6 foot punk with a turquoise mohican, a peirced nose, tatoos and a Dead Kennedies t-shirt (he would fitted in well at the CFZ) and his very pretty girlfriend Clair who worked one of the cameras.

The talk lasted two hours and went very well, covering most of my expeditions and discussing most of the major cryptids. I managed to get a couple of appeals for sponsorship in as well. Viwers texed in with questions all night.

However on live TV embarrasing things are wont to happen. I almost knocked over a glass of water but managed to catch it. Later there was a cock up with the sound as we went into a break. The mics were on longer than they should have been, so the viewers heard me say that I was going for a leak! One guy texted in to ask if I enjoyed it!

Theo and the others were very pleased with the show and said it was one of the most interesting they had done.

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