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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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Thursday, October 25, 2012

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

It seems that someone attacked the CFZ website and inserted malicious script on it. The whole affair has now been sorted, but it does make one wonder what sort of person is responsible for such things. Is it just a random attack by an anonymous person, somewhat akin to graffiting a wall? Or is it a deliberate attack on us by someone who does not like me or the CFZ? I have no idea, and don't really care. I just hope that it doesn't happen again (but it probably will). Our new trainee Sherri joins the office this evening, and I hope that the lovely Jess H will be here later.
I think Peter McAdam is one of the funniest people around, and I cannot recommend his book The Nine Henrys highly enough. This week we shall be running a series of Henrybits that are not found in his book about the nine cloned cartoon characters who inhabit a surreal world nearly as insane as mine...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-daily-henry.html
I have not forgotten about editing the footage that I took in Southampton the other day, but I am completely snowed under with stuff at the moment. However, to keep your interest at a fever pitch here is some footage of Jefferson Starship in Paris last week..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/jefferson-starship-particularly-feisty.html
It is probably because I am a great fan of Robert Heinlein and his Future History series of stories, but I am very fond of daydreaming about 'what ifs', and imagining alternate universes where certain events in history didn't happen. One big 'what if' for followers of the eccentric mix of musical styles which can be found on the Gonzo Daily, is 'what if, Lemmy had not been busted on Hawkwind's 1975 US Tour... http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-lemmy-id-still-be-in-hawkwind-if.html
There are many advantages to living out in the sticks in rural North Devon, but one of the disadvantages is that many of the tours that I would like to see don't come anywhere near here. One such tour is Gordon Giltrap and Oliver Wakeman - so I will have to be content with this live review that I found online...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-gordon-giltrap-and-oliver-wakeman.html
A link to an interesting interview with the ever lovely Annie Haslam. I hope that your back is getting better, my dear...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-annie-haslam-interview.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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