CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 08/24/13

WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HOPPING

So we are pretty well back to normal. Graham is in Bournemouth watching Hawkwind, and I have just finished interviewing the lovely Barbara Dickson about her new album which is a tribute to her old friend the late Gerry Rafferty. This week's issue of the Gonzo Weekly is finished but I am holding up sending it out, just in case Graham has some interesting revelations to impart upon his return.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Bob Calvert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-bob-calvert.html

Easy Riding with Stephen Stills and Kenny Wayne Shepherd
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/easy-riding-with-stephen-stills-and_24.html

Merrell Fankhauser's new DVD reviewed
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/merrell-fankhauser-rainbow-bridge.html

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Rare Beefheart/Doors poster
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/cabinet-of-curiosities-rare.html

Lunar Notes in the Press
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/lunar-notes-in-press.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 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?

WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Nick Wadham

WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Jon/Richard - 'My Way'

This was very nearly the last Weird Weekend. Jon and Richard explain why.

and now the end is near
and we may face the final curtain ha ha ha
this thing we do each year
the future really is uncertain

for the last fourteen years
with lots of hard work and some tears
Jon drank brandy, I drank beers
we did it our way

regrets, we've had a few, but then again too few to mention
investing in that zoo, was not a good use of her pension
some people ripped us off, or built websites to slag us off, but we told them to....
THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT
we did it our our way

There were times everybody knew, we bit off more, far more than we could chew
for fourteen years, us and our friends, put on some really weird weekends
will they go on? Well that depends but we'll do 'em our way

and now the CFZ are faced with a bone of contention
after fourteen years should we continue our convention
our other work will carry on, and may we say not in a sour way
because we're who we are we'll do it our way

and We're still just the same you know, we're still mad, bad and dangerous to know
and we still go where others won't, and do the things that other's don't
cos that's really the only point, we do it our way

WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Jon Downes and Richard Freeman - An introduction to Cryptozoology

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

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.

DALE DRINNON: Long-necked sea serpent, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/08/more-comparisons-of-longnecked.html

New at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd, a number of short articles, mostly one illustration (original magazine page) per:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/08/blonde-and-fancy-free-from-picture-play.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/08/zasu-pitts-in-picture-play.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/08/hollywood-vagabond-november-17-1927.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/08/hollywood-filmograph-july-27-1929.html

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/08/hal-roach-series-ads.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:

Death on Dartmoor... — Alleged ritualistic killing of a pony was natural death, police say...
The "Texas Chupacabras" - Not An "Unknown" — Hard, physical evidence for a real but elusive animal...

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1934 the actor Kenny Baker was born. Baker is best known for his role as R2D2 in the Star Wars movies and also stared in Time Bandits and Labyrinth.

And now the news:

Bodger and Badger get involved in badger cull

1,000kg giant leatherback turtle washed up on beac...

The 'Beast of Trowbridge'? Pensioners spy creature...

NJ teen fights off bull-shark attack during Florid...

Mokele-Mbembe

Wallaby spotted bouncing down country lanes near S...

Bizarre 'Sea Monster' Mystery Solved

He's all white! Extraordinary pictures capture rar...

A baby having an enlightening conversation with R2D2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVHsWlE7hE