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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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Saturday, September 08, 2012

HEALING ANA

As some of you are aware, I am a musician in my own right, and as well as writing Gonzostuff each day have been making albums that very few people buy for thirty years now. If you are interested, some of them are on Spotify, Jon Downes Jon Downes and the Amphibians from Outer Space, but this post is not about me. For the last couple of my records I have used drum samples purchased from Dooley's Drums which is owned and run by Jim Dooley. This evening I had a heartbreaking email from him:

Hi everyone,

You may have noticed that I haven't uploaded any new beats lately. Unfortunately there is a sad reason to this. Two weeks ago I found out that my daughter has a large tumor growing on and around her liver. We are still waiting a final diagnosis and treatment plan. I hope to be able to get back to making drum loops soon; in fact they may help pass the time in the hospital.

If you would like to read more, you can do so at http://anadooley.com/

Thank you for your understanding,

Jim Dooley

She is a talented young lady, and the latest news is that she has been diagnosed with epithelial hemangioendothelioma (EHE), which is - bizarrely - what my mother died of. I felt impelled to publicise her case as widely as I can.


Love and respect

Jon

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