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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, June 04, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS RELIEVED

And so the beat goes on. As you may know, Olivia is moving out of my house in Exeter and being replaced by Matt and Emma Osborne and their menagerie. Yesterday we took delivery of their collection of rodents, as part of the pre-move sorting out. We shall be fostering them here until Thursday. In the meantime, Emma asked Corinna if she wanted two girl rats to replace Viv who died of a brain tumour some weeks ago. So what was my mother's dining room and is now Corinna's office now has three girl rats scampering about.
I don't like to argue with Mick Farren, but in his massively entertaining and enlightening autobiography he is very scathing about The Deviants' second album 'Disposable'. I got around to listening to it for the first time about half an hour ago, and there are bits of it that I really like. But then again (much to the chagrin of my family) I like atonal stoned weirdness.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
Merrell Fankhauser sent me this article about Ed Cassidy from 'Modern Drummer' magazine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/ed-cassidy-in-modern-drummer-mag-thanks.html
And finally. Do I look like the kind of bloke who will hi-jack a blog about music to make a political point? No, of course not; this story is only in because of the involvement of Brian May from Queen.NOT! Last year it was benefits claimants, the year before pedophiles, this year's public enemy is Meles meles, the Eurasian badger.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-badger-song-by-queens-brian-may.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 (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

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