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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, October 10, 2012

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

Corinna is home, as is mother and the two new Chinese toads. Even Prudence has stopped sulking. So we are back to normal. The CFZ exhibition in Barnstaple starts at the end of next week, the BBC have just interviewed me about the Loch Ness Monster, the lovely Jess Heard will be here imminently and Michael Des Barres has a new single out. Life as normal really...
Michael Des Barres: Amor Prohibido. God, this is brilliant. I heard this first the day after it was recorded, and I love it to death. Somehow it has even more power than the English language version. Check it out, and then go buy it at iTunes...http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-des-barres-new-single-remember.html

Our daily visit to the abode of Thom the World Poet. Today he takes us for a walk by Walk by ocean, river, desert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html

 As regular readers will know, I am very fond of the music of Cap[tain Beefheart and am not averse to using the excuse that there is a Beefheart volume in the Lost Broadcasts series as an excuse to post a link to a retrospective look at one of his classic albums.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-40-year-itch-captain-beefheart.html

 I am very fond of Helen McCookerybook and I hope to be talking to her later today about various projects of hers. Today, however, I have half inched various bits from her blog about a new club she is starting. Herewith Club Artyfartle. I might even try and get a gig there myself..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/helen-mccookerybook-club-artyfartle.html

 I found this video interview with Rick Wakeman's son Adam yesterday, and was so interested that I shamelessly used the fact that his dad is a Gonzodude to repost it here today.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/classic-rock-rick-wakeman-fanpack.html

 Whilst on the subject of things Wakemanesque, those jolly nice people at Classic Rock are putting out a Rick Wakeman fanpack based around the Journey to the Centre of the Earth album.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/classic-rock-rick-wakeman-fanpack.html

 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 Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
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