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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, January 10, 2013

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

And so another day dawns. It is grey and wet, but still remarkably mild for the time of year. I voiced my concerns about the long term effects of this weather on the latest episode of OTT, and Lars Thomas wrote: "You are almost right about the mild winters and the wildflowers and butterflies. A lot of flowers - bulbs, seeds and so on - do need frosting in the ground to ensure a good crop of plants in spring. But the butterflies, or actually the eggs, larvae or pupae wintering in the ground, do not as such need a period of frost. They need their enemies, bacteria, fungi and parasites to get a good beating from the frost. In mild winters like this year, all the things that can kill a hibernating insect have perfect conditions to wreck havoc among them - and that's why a mild winter is usually followed by a poor insect or wildflower year". Thanks Lars.
 
I have just finished reading Pat Long's massively entertaining history of the NME, and am just starting an interesting book about the Rolling Stones 1967 drug bust. I have quite a backlog of books I have read but not reviewed so when I have cleared my desk, expect a slew of reviews and comment-essays.
 
Eric Burdon has a new album imminent. Gonzo has several Eric Burdon items on its roster. Coincidence? I think not
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-preview-til-your-river-runs-dry.html
 
A previously unreleased song from Jimi Hendrix and Stephen Stills
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-jimi-hendrix-goes-exploring-on.html
 
Steve Howe has quite Asia. What is going to happen next? We have no idea.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/breaking-news-steve-howe-quits-asia-jan.html
 
 
The orange cat now has a twitter account courtesy of my slightly odd step-daughter. She wants the orange cat to get more followers than Lady GaGa, but as she has over 35,000,000 and the orange cat has 4, I think that this may be a slightly uphill struggle. But don't tell the orange cat, or Shoshannah, that I said that.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-orange-cat-is-on-twitter.html
 
A new David Bowie single, and it is not going to get in the charts! Totally off-topic I know, but it's Bowie innit!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/ok-this-is-totally-off-topic-but-its.html
 
 
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Ginger Baker's Airforce
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-ginger-bakers.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 - imaginatively - 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 which he shares with various fish and batrachians. 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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