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:
Our old friend and colleague Ronan Coghlan is doing some bloggystuff for the CFZ. However, he is having some problems. The fact that I am half deaf, and on the other side of the Irish Sea from him doesn't facilitate my giving technical advice.
Most of yesterday was spent filming Tasmania stuff with Richard before he went back to Exeter. He starts his new job today as ....wait for it.... a shopping mall Father Christmas. I do hope that he manages to keep his psychotic sense of humour under control while he discharges his duties. I can imagine him interspersing his Ho Ho Hos with a monologue about liver, or brass piping, or flannels, or any of the other things that he finds amusing. But I am hoping for a real Christmas Miracle! Also yesterday I interviewed John Higgs about his recent KLF biography (which, I believe, Bill Drummond likes immensely) and I am happy to report that he will be at the 2014 WW with a talk entitled 'Magick, Chaos, and the band who burned a million quid'. I can't wait.
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