CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 06/15/16

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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...

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

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.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

News lady has a bigfoot story!

The Crypto Blast

That's why a lot of people were amazed when she posted a video describing a possible bigfoot encounter her family had recently while camping in the ...

Pocatello man's Bigfoot hoax gets international attention

Xtreme Idaho

A photo submitted by a Pocatello man whose video of an alleged Bigfoot encounter in Southeast Idaho was revealed as a joke earlier this week.

If You Love Your Dog Keep It Away From Bigfoot (Video)

Before It's News

There are lots of stories of dogs disappearing in areas of bigfoot activity, or dogs being afraid all of a sudden out in the woods, and even on rare ...

EXCLUSIVE CLIP From STOMPING GROUND, The New Indie Horror/Comedy About BIGFOOT!

Blumhouse.com

Is Bigfoot making a comeback? There have been a fair share of Sasquatch related projects in the last few years. Famed comedian and master of the ...

The Salem News

Bigfoot in Bunker? The search is on

The Salem News

Today, that legend is spreading beyond the traditional confines of the bonfire, and local residents are speaking out that Bigfoot may call our ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HURRIES

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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Guess what I have found on You Tube. On 6 April 1992, George Harrison held a benefit concert for the Natural Law Party at the Royal Albert Hall, his first London performance since the Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert. I had no idea that it had ever been filmed, and I hadn't even heard a bootleg of the concert. Guess what I am listening to as I type.

And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

find out all about the Weird Weekend

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buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

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And now the news:

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Day After Day - Badfin...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-day-after-day.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html

IONA NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/iona-news.html

GONZO PEOPLE: Happy anniversary to Mark and Edna R...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/gonzo-people-happy-anniversary-to-mark.html

Frank Zappa_ A day with Frank Zappa_1971

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/frank-zappa-day-with-frank-zappa1971.html

Gonzo Magazine #186

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

To mark the launch this week of the dedicated Facebook page for Neil Nixon’s extraordinary new book about Beatles folklore we have an exclusive extract, Alan goes to see Braniac 5 and The Green Ray, Doug eulogises Talking Heads, Jon reviews a book about The Band and burbles on about Santana, Judy Dyble remembers Dave Swarbrick, while Corinna talks about jolly nice Traffic Wardens. Just another day chez Gonzo.

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have 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:

Santana, Karnataka, Paradise 9, Ray Bennett, Quadrophenia, Abba, Brian May, Axl Rose, Paul McCartney, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progessive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, David Cyril Eric Swarbrick, Muhammad Ali, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Neil Nixon, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Alan Dearling, The Green Ray, Brainiac 5, Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Xtul, The Band, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Sebastian Cabot

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html

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:

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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?