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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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Friday, January 04, 2013

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

'Goodness me', I hear you all exclaim. 'You are up early, Mr Downes'. Well, not exactly. I haven't been to bed yet. I was asleep most of the afternoon and my body clock is all to cock, (if I may use such a vulgarism), so I have decided to roll with it and go to bed when I feel tired. In the meantime here are today's blogs so I don't have to get up at any particular time.
As you have probably realised I am very much a fan of the music of Helen McCookerybook, and will do my best to spread the word far and wide. Today (I am pleased to say) there are two new albums on Bandcamp. Check them out.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/two-helen-mccookerybook-albums-on.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is  Dave Bainbridge & David Fitzgerald - Life Journey
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-dave-bainbridge.html
Rick Wakeman takes a well deserved pop at the current generation of performers who only want to be famous. I, however (if I may quote Clive Gregson), learned to play the guitar mostly to pick up girls. It even worked occasionally.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-rick-wakeman-has-slammed-fame.html
Michael Des Barres on another groovy TV show. This time it is about hotel secrets. I have to admit to being somewhat intrigued...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/michael-des-barres-hotel-secrets.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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