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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.

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PROGRESSETH

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
THE ONLY WAY I GET MY KICKS
I really dislike The Daily Mail. Their level of journalistic integrity, does - I believe - leave a lot to be desired. Unfortunately a lot of the twaddle they write is on subjects that I know nothing about so I can't really comment. However, today they proudly proclaim that "Britain's first wild beaver for 500 years has been caught on camera for a second time - but this time gnawing on a tree in the dead of night", and then promptly contradicting it in the headline which proclaims that there have not been beavers in the UK for 800 years. None of these assertions are true. If I remember correctly, (and I can't be bothered to find my copy of Harting's 'British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times') the last wild ones were trapped at Loch Ness in the year of the Spanish Armada, which actually means that they have been missing from our landscape for 425 years, not 500, or 800. Except they haven't: One of a pair was shot in Essex in (I think) the 1970s, and there were at least two beavers on the River Axe from the 80s and 90s. Whether they are the remnants of the original population (which I doubt, but this is what the paper is implying) or were the result of deliberate or accidental introduction I don't know.
 
But like the wild boar before it, the beaver does seem to be on its way back, which can only be a good thing. And it gives me a chance to make a 'Pop Will Eat Itself' joke which is always good. And today we bought a new car, so I can't resist!
 
One good thing that's on my side
It's a big bad car, it's out of sight, beaver patrol
 
Concert review: Rick Wakeman – a piano recital mixed with comedy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/concert-review-rick-wakeman-piano.html
 
Yes Posts ‘In the Studio’ Images, Begin Working on new album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/yes-posts-in-studio-images-begin.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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