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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, November 28, 2012

CFZ CANADA: A rant with which we have to agree

http://cfz-canada.blogspot.com/2012/11/just-stop-rant.html
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WELL DONE CORINNA

Many congratulations to Corinna who took over doing the CFZ News Blog from Gavin Lloyd Wilson a couple of years back. This week she posted the 10,000th post. Well done baby!
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CFZ PEOPLE: Dave Braund-Phillips

I want to apologise to my beloved nephew David B-P (pictured here with Col Blashford-Snell and some old hippy). He came over yesterday to help, and worked tremendously hard fixing the new computer (its only parts of the old ones that don't work properly now) and all his ageing uncle did was to fall asleep.

Thank you my dear boy. I very much appreciate everything you do for me. One day you will be ringmaster of this circus, and so knackered that you fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon...
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DALE DRINNON: Big Muddy exposed/Cedar and Willow/Benny's Blog


Bst Wishes, Dale D.
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)

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. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.




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I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

We have still got computer issues, and I haven't had my network working properly for over a week now, so please if you are expecting something from me via the Internet, please be patient. All good things come to them wot wait. Today I am planning to interview Michael Des Barres, and I very much hope that the preorder button for Karl Shuker's new - full colour - cat book will be up and running. Keep yer fingers crossed.
 
This brief bit of gossip in the Daily Express tells us nothing that we didn't already already know about Rick's reimagining of Journey to the Centre of the Earth but contains the best conjunctivitis joke EVER!!!!!!!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/rick-wakeman-in-daily-express.html
 
 
Radio show news from the lovely Judy Dyble, who is someone else that I hope to be interviewing this week
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/judy-dyble-writes.html
 
 
As any fule kno, my favourite male singer is Scott Walker, and Epizootics is the first full song released from his new album
 
which comes out next week. For the record, my favourite female singer is Marianee Faithfull)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/epizootics-is-first-track-to-be-aired.html
 
The Atkins May Project is a synthesis of two remarkable talents; Christian guitarist Paul May and former Judas Priest and Holy Rage singer Al Atkins. In this multi-part series we go through the twenty songs which have appeared on their two albums so far, and let Al and Paul tell us the secrets behind the sounds.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exclusive-song-by-song-with-atkins-may_28.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 same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginitavely - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
 
Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures 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, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
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OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today


On this day in 1963 the comedian and writer Armando Iannucci was born. Iannucci is best known for creating tv series including “the day today” and “the thick of it”.
And now the news:
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  • MEPs vote to close 'shark finning' loopholes
  • Largest Network Of Marine Reserves Announced
  • Council threatens dinosaur extinctio

    • Star Wars as described by Malcolm Tucker:
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