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.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
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| Illustrations for each of the top 9 Alaskan Native Hairy Man stories |
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| Plane buzzes Hairy People |
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
Technical errors have prevented the release of any more than one blog
posting today. However you are welcome to look at that one:
Everything is running rather late today,
partly because I overslept and partly because I had a considerable amount more
work than usual to do for the Gonzo Weekly. Anyway, we are now up to date, and
the newsletter will go out later today. A little bird tells me that the long
awaited DVD of Steve Ignorant's final 'Last Supper' show is imminent. The whole
show is - I discovered the other day - available on YouTube, or at least the
whole show sans the last two or three songs, which makes somewhat of a nonsense
of the whole thing. I sincerely hope that the officially released artifact is
the whole show.
Oll is away, so for todayYesterday's News Today is done by Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros. He is a stand up comedian of some renown. Here is one of his rhino-related jokes.
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