50 yesterday
Happy Birthday Mike.
And even Peanut (aka Captain Frunobulax) is wishing you the same down there in the right hand corner.
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...

As I said to Saskia the intern this morning. There
are two types of boss. There are the ones who get up betimes, and have a whole
day's activities planned for their students when they arrive. And there are the
ones who stay up all night drinking wine with Richard Freeman, go to bed just
before seven, and stagger out of bed ten minutes before their amanuensis
arrives, greeting her with a bleary smile and a demand for cups of tea. I, of
course, am part of the first group and professional to the last.
Oll is away so for today Yesterday's News Today is done by Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros. He is a stand-up comedian of some renown. Here is one of his rhino-related jokes.