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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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Thursday, May 12, 2016

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



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Rick Dyer Bigfoot Rant..
The notorious hoaxer himself is back! And this time it's to rant about how messed up people are in the Bigfoot world. Rick also goes on to say that he is ...

Bigfoot Filmed On Snowy Bike trail (commentary)
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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 WORRIED

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
I am pleased to say that Dave McMann's hospital treatment appears to be less drastic than we had at first feared, which would seem to be good news. Talking of Daves, my dear nephew Dave B-P telephoned me yesterday evening from his honeymoon telling me that he has a bottle of brandy left from the bunfight bar, which he intends to come over and drink with me, and that the newly wed Mrs B-P will drive him home. I have trained the dear boy well.
 
Nw, a technical question for you all. I pay for the premium Spotify account, and I stream it to my hifi with an Apple Airport. I have always had the settings on my iPad to the highest possible quality. But yesterday I was messing around with the settings and I found that it sounds considerably better on a lower, or average setting. Now, taking into consideration that I am slightly deaf, and so I have to listen to things relatively loudly. What the blinking flipis going on?
 
Finally, my new assistant started yesterday. A charming young lady called Chloe. And she is picking it all up very well. Welcome to the madhouse baby.
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Badfinger - Baby Blue ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Hawkwind Interview (Backstage at Planet Rockstock ...
Eric Burdon Interview
"Chris Hillman & Peter Noone Interview" - 1980's
 
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
 
buy my novel:
buy my single:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
buy the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mick Farren - Play Wit...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GONZO PEOPLE: Dave McMann
Arrival of The Flying Burrito Brothers in The Neth...
GERMAN BRAND X REVIEW
 
Gonzo Magazine #181
 
Beatles, Neil Nixon, Elton John, KLF, Bill Drummond, Bob Calvert, John Russell, Star Wars, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
This issue features Neil Nixon tells us about his new book covering the Myths and Legends of The Beatles, we
talk to 4th Eden about his
new Atmospherik Mekanisms  project, Alan talks to John Russell, guitar improviser extraordinaire, John remembers the Bob Calvert Tribute Concert, Doug muses on Elton John’s finest hour and Biffo asks Star Wars actors whether they had ever smuggled a possum inside their costumes,
and there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and as it was full moon last week, Canterbury Sans Frontières. We also have the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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!!!
 
This issue features:
Bill Drummond, The Who, Octopus Syng, Radiohead, David Bowie, Corky Laing, Mountain, Marillion, Arthur Brown, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mac Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Phil Ryan, Lars Olof «Olle» Gustaf Ljungström, Doug Raney, The Beatles, Osibisa, Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies,  Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Neil Nixon, Elton John, John Russell, Alan Dearling, 4th Eden, Martin Eve, Roy Weard, Bob Calvert, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Elvis, Barbra streisand, Abba, Nikola Tesla, ArcAttack, William Burroughs, Ocelon
                                                                                    
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
 
 
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me
 
and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
 
SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.
 
* 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.co.uk
 
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. 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 infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kittens?

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



Scottish Daily Record

And now after logging more than 1000 sightings, the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month with ...

YEARBOOK UPLOADED

The CFZ Yearbook was finished about ten days ago and we started taking pre-orders. I then contracted blood poisoning, and everything went on hold. However, with the assistance of my new assistant Chloe Gray, it was uploaded this evening (or yesterday evening if you are reading this tomorrow)


Proof, as if any were needed, that I always keep my promises in the end, the 2016 CFZ Yearbook is imminent, and we are now taking pre-orders at a special low price of £9.99. It is a particularly diverse and interesting volume, and we are very proud of it...


Contents


  • Introduction              
  • British Wombats and related cryptozoology by Richard Muirhead           
  • Fire Beasts, Lightning Beasts, and the Elephant of Tiahunaco - Investigating a Crypto- Archaeological anomaly  by Dr Karl Shuker
  • Monsters and Cryptids of Classical Myth by Ronan Coghlan                            
  • Tiny Snakes and Giant Worms in Hong Kong by Jonathan Downes                  
  • A note on Giant Earthworms by Jonathan Downes                                              
  • Crocodile Cults; The worship, mythology and folklore of crocodilians by Richard Freeman
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES: Note on the Pterodactyl Tribe considered as Giant Bats by     Edward Newman (1843)
  • Is the Yowie an Australian Immigrant? By Tony Lucas
  • Orang Pendek in the Dutch Press by Loes Modderman                                       
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES: Water Beings in Shetland Folklore as remembered bShetlanders in British Columbia by J A Teit (1918)
  • FIELD REPORT 16.4.16 Was the Pershore Roe Deer Carcass Really Predated by a Large   Unknown Felid? by Carl Marshall
  • Mystery Animals of Arizona by David Weatherly and Richard Muirhead
  • On the 2016 “Chupacabras” carcasses from The Ukraine
  • Mystery animals in classic British pulp fiction by Jonathan Downes
  • CLASSIC CRYPTOFICTION: The Lake of the Devil by Edgar Wallace
  • 2015: a Year in the life of the CFZ                                                                    



NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1588 - King Henry III fled Paris after Henry of Guise triumphantly entered the city. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • There are only three Saharan Addaxes left in the w...
  • Evolution of the Javan leopard
  • Mosquito may play key role in transmitting eastern...
  • New evidence connects dung beetle evolution to din...

  • Comparative analysis reveals use patterns of deepe...

  • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)