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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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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

I am still feeling fairly insane today, but - bizarrely - this is when I am at my most productive. Go figure. It is raining, but not hard enough to wash away the remnants of the snow, so we have the worst of all worlds. Our frogspawn experiment is progressing nicely, with the spawn that was laid in running water developing far faster than the other. We shall go and check whether the wild spawn has survived the cold snap sometime this week. I am still enjoying the Keith Richards book, but it is getting a little too showbizzy for my liking aw we approach the end. Interesting, though.
We know how to deal with guitar virtuoso types here at Gonzo Daily. Do we just let them sit back and play magnificent guitar licks all day? We, most of the time, yes. However, other times we get them to sing or rather write for their supper. Paul May from the magnificent Atkins/May Project wrote us a great review of Evanescence last year, and when we heard he was going to see Jools Holland, we asked him very nicely for another one...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/out-and-about-with-paul-may-jools.html
In the great traditions of British journalism I spend much of my time nicking stuff from people's facebook pages. Look what I found on Alan Davey's...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/look-what-i-found-on-alan-daveys.html
The latest news from the world of the lovely Mimi Page. Her first album was a delight. I am very much looking forward to seeing what comes next.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-message-from-mimi.html
More news from Wilko Johnson who is a very brave man indeed.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/wilko-johnson-confirms-second-london.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the lovely Gilli Smyth
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day_22.html
Another of our daily visits to the incomparable Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_22.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

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  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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