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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, November 01, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN MIGHT BE.....

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The Gonzo Daily - Friday
 
I'm too old to do things by half.
 
                              Lou Reed
 
Today is a very exciting one for us at the CFZ. The Tasmania expedition will have all met up on the island, and the expedition in search of the CFZ Totem Animal, the mystery animal most likely to exist, will be underway. This is the start of a long-term study by CFZ Australia and our thoughts and prayers are with them. I am sure that you will join me in wishing them Godspeed and a successful investigation. There will be updates over the next few weeks - watch this space.
 
Last night I watched the BBC Imagine film on Jimi Hendrix, which will be - I believe - available up there for another 40-something days. It didn't reveal anything much that I didn't already know, but there were some really good bits of unseen performance video, and some interesting snippets of Jimi's home movies. The thing that I found particularly interesting, however, was how shocking his image is, even now. In quite a lot of rock documentaries I have watched recently the protagonists look very staid by modern standards: in the DVD about Paul McCartney and the counterculture from Chrome Dreams that I reviewed recently, for example, McCartney looks like a trendy estate agent rather than a bastion of the permissive society. But Hendrix's image is still shocking: an anarchic but oddly dignified wildman, with an impish grin, who channelled some ancient Eleusinian ceremonial, or the celebrant of a Bacchanalian orgy. It is still shocking; in 1967 it must have been mindblowingly devastating.
 
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html
 
 
 
Gonzo Weekly #50 is out this weekend. There has never been a better time to subscribe
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-50th-issue-is-out-this-weekend.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: www.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 54 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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