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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...

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Friday, March 28, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN'LL BE COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN WHEN HE COMES

The Gonzo Daily - Friday
Richard arrived yesterday evening, and will be staying until Sunday. Graham is off to see his Mama in St Albans, which - I have to admit - that apart from the fact Graham's family live there, and was mentioned once in a song by Al Stewart, is a place I know absolutely nothing about, so I am totally unable to write anything witty about it. All sorts of exciting things are in the offing, including (but not restricted to) a Mike Davis recording and mastering session, Saskia's first big assault on the conservatory ably supported by a gang of young people of various ages, and maybe a couple of middle aged hippies. Her plans are exciting ones, and suggest that the conservatory is gonna be fit for visitors for the first time in years. The first lot of work on Corky Laing's deliciously funny memoirs has now been finished, and will be dropboxed to the great man today. Its all go here!
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Kevin Ayers - Clarence in Wonderland
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-track-of-day.html
The new issue of Gonzo Weekly, in its swish new format, will be out tomorrow, and features interviews with Andy Colquhoun and Cyrille Verdeaux, with the second part of my conversation with Joey Molland about the glory days at Apple Records. There are also features on Rpcket Scientists, what happens when The Psychedelic Warlords collaborate with Michael Moorcock and a look at music written by Jews whon died in the death camps.
The current issue is still available featuring Tim Blake, Craig High from the Psychedelic Warlords, Cyrille Verdeaux goes native, plus Acid Mothers Temple, Joey Molland remembers working with John, George and Ringo, Mice on Stilts, Steve Hillage and more news, reviews, views, interviews and and London Zoos (OK, no metropolitan menageries, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! We are also relaunching with a brand new layout and format for our 70th issue. We hope that you like it.
You can read it, and find links to all back issues at http://www.gonzoweekly.com./
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 *  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 an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
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