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...
New at the Frontiers of
Zoology:
Well, I am back in the saddle and
reasonably compos mentis. My self imposed seclusion and a diet of brandy and P.G
Wodehouse washed down with liberal doses of the new album by The Polyphonic
Spree, seems to have done the job. I have a slightly thick head this afternoon,
but that is a tiny price to pay for being able to walk, talk and think
reasonably normally again. Over the past few days I found that YouTube have a
plethora of episodes of the mid-1970s adaptations of Wodehouse stories that were
broadcast as 'Wodehouse Playhouse'. Watching these delightfully subtle, and
charming little films, I realise now what was wrong with this year's adaptations
of the Blandings Castle books. The 2013 films are mostly slapstick farce, and
Wodehouse was anything but slapstick farce. He was an immensely subtle writer,
and when dramatised tastefully they are delightful. There were moments of
greatness in the 2013 series, but they were few and far between despite the
(usually) excellent casting. But enough of me blathering on about my favourite
comic literature. On with the show!
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