Friday, March 21, 2014

HIT PARADE FOR FEBRUARY (CFZ PRESS/FORTEAN WORDS)

Whoops! I should have done this weeks ago but totally forgot. My only excuse? I am an idiot.

UK




1.   Pygmy Elephants by Matt Salusbury (-)
2. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 2 by Karl Shuker (2)
3. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (2)
4. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 1 by Karl Shuker (-)
5. A&M 51 (1)
6=. Haunted Skies Volume One by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (-)
6=. The Owlman and Others by Jon Downes (-)
8=. Extraordinary Animals Revisited by Karl Shuker (-)
8=.  In the Wake of Bernard Heuvelmans by Michael Woodley (4)
8=. SEA SERPENT CARCASSES: Scotland by Glen Vaudrey (-)


US

1. Journal of Cryptozoology Vol 2 by Karl Shuker (1)
2.   When Bigfoot Attacks by Mike Newton (-)
3. The Great Yokai Encyclopaedia by Richard Freeman (3)
4. Haunted Skies Volume One by John Hanson and Dawn Holloway (-)
5=. The Smaller Mystery Carnivores of the Westcountry by Jon Downes (-)
5=. Man Monkey by Nick Redfern (-)
5=. The Cryptid Creatures of Florida by Scott Marlowe (-)
5=. MYSTERIOUS CREATURES: A Guide to Cryptozoology - Vol 1 by George Eberhart (9)
9=. Big Bird by Ken Gerhard (9)
9=. Monster! by Neil Arnold (8)


Last month's positions in this pinky colour, which I think is called cerise. The slow sales are continuing. The politicians who claim we are out of the recession are, I believe, talking nonsense. 

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS


The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 

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  • FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


    What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

    Well, everything actually!

    In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. 




    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS FOND OF POULTRY

    The Gonzo Daily - Friday
     
    Andrea was in the office all afternoon yesterday, and she is making fine progress with Volume Two of George Eberhart's remarkable 'Mysterious Creatures". I haven't got a release date yet but it will be sooner rather than later. Andrea, Saskia and all the new members of the team are working very hard, and although it might seem at the moment that nothing much is happening, both in the wonderful world of the CFZ, and the Gonzoverse, all sorts of stuff is happening behind the scenes. Rome wasn't built in a day yadda yadda yadda.
     
     
     
     
    GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Acid Mothers Temple - Blue Velvet Blues
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    We are working hard on the next issue of Gonzo Weekly, which - errors and omissions notwithsanding -
     
    This week's issue of Gonzo Weekly is here. Hooray!!! It has intgerviews with Tim Blake, Craig High from the Psychedelic Warlords, Cyrille Verdeaux goes native, plus Acid Mothers Temple, Joey Molland rembers working with John, George and Ringo, 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.
     
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    *  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
     
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    *  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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