CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 03/30/17

WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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...

Thursday, March 30, 2017

ANTI BULLFIGHTING PETITIONJ

Part of our £10Bn a year goes to support this cruel and barbaric sport

European Union Parliament Secretariat, Rue Wiertzstraat: Stop Funding the Bullfight in Spain

Most of Spain's population is anxious to rid their country and culture of the barbarically cruel bullfight, yet despite protests, the EU (influenced by old Spanish…

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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.

Animals & Men #60 is now available

Yes, boys and girls, issue 60 of Animals and Men is now available at:

http://cfzresources.com/publishing/animals-men/

It features:

2. Contents

3. Faculty

4. Editorial

9. Newsfile: New and Rediscovered

16. Newsfile: Chupacabras

19. Newsfile: Man beasts

21. Newsfile: Mystery cats

23. Newsfile: Aquatic monsters

29. Newsfile Xtra (1): The Scottish “Polar Bears”

31. Newsfile Xtra (2): The Philippino“Polar Bears”

36. Watcher of the Skies by Corinna Downes

54. Phantom Black Dogs in the Netherlands by Loes Moddermann

65. Jumping to Conclusions: Could kangaroos explain the American Dogman phenomenon? By Colin Schneider

68. Phantom Kangaroos by Scott Kroll

78. Ape Canyon feature film seeks financing

by Harrison Demchick

71. Still on the trail of the Tasmanian Wolf by Richard Freeman

81. Duties for regional representatives—

a discussion document

82. Letters to the Editor

89. Reviews

92. Recent books from CFZ Press

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TEASES HIS PUPILS

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

My late Mother always said that one should follow Doctor's Orders. And so, yesterday evening, when Dr Blake turned up with some bottles of wine, and then took my credit card up to the shop to buy some more bottles, I did what the doctor ordered, and drank my fair share of it. That, boys and girls, is why I have a slightly thick head this morning. Whooooop!

And now, here is the news:

Galahad split with guitarist Roy Keyworth

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/galahad-split-with-guitarist-roy.html

YES NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/yes-news_30.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Van Der Graaf Generato...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-van-der-graaf_30.html

Rick Wakeman The Phantom of the Opera Review by ...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/rick-wakeman-phantom-of-opera-review-by.html

Gonzo Magazine #227

THE HAIL HAIL ROCK AND ROLL ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

In this rockin’ and a rollin’ issue we say goodbye to Chuck Berry, Doug goes to see Zucchero, John sees Hendrix in Bristol (not really), Alan writes about Beaver and Krause with his mate Phil, we introduce you to our very own druid, and Jon nearly gets charged with a crime of moral turpitude.

Groovy huh?

It’s all free!

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

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Johnny Marr, The The, Morrissey, Jon Anderson, Yes, Nick Mason, Ronnie Wood, Prince, Black Sabbath, Lily Collins, Phil Collins, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jeremy Smith's Seven Deadly Sins, Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry, James Henry Cotton, John Lever, Tommy LiPuma, Joey Alves, James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (Irish: Séamus Máirtín Pacelli Mag Aonghusa), Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, Evan Johns, Don Warden, Joan Elise Sledge, Tony Lorenzo, John Thomas "Sib" Hashian, PC Keith Palmer, Tony Ashton with Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Bernie Marsden, Micky Moody, Neil Murray, John Entwhistle, Zak Starkey (Ringo’s son), Z, Gastank, Lutz Ulbrich featuring Nico, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Adelmo “Zucchero” Fornaciari, Beaver and Krause, John Brodie-Good, Jimi Hendrix, Kev Rowland, Aborym, Accept, Agnostic Front, Sepultura, Ashenspire, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, John Lennon, George Harrison, Kurt Cobain, Andrew Ridgeley, Andy Phillipson, Neil Nixon, Sandra Cross

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo225-6.html

Issue 224 (Hibernal)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo224.html

Issue 223 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo223.html

Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo222.html

Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo221.html

Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo220.html

Issue 219 (Martin Stone)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo219.html

Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo218.html

Issue 217 (Dig Doug Harr)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo217.html

Issue 215-6 (New Year 2017)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo215-6.html

Issue 213-4 (Yule 2016)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo213-4.html

Issue 212 (Greg Lake)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo212.html

Issue 211 (Phil Collins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo211.html

Issue 210 (Nico)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo210.html

Issue 209 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo209.html

Issue 208 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo208.html

Issue 207 (Tibet)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo207.html

Issue 206 (Raz)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo206.html

Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo205.html

Issue 204 (Gas Tank)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo204.html

Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo203.html

Issue 202 (Gong)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo202.html

Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo201.html

Issue 200 (Deep Purple)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo200.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.

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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.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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Woman blames car crash on Big Foot

97.5 KMOD - iHeartRadio

An unnamed woman from Idaho crashed her car and claims it was because of Big Foot. She told police officers that she saw Big Foot chasing a deer

Do You Believe the Bigfoot Sightings in East Texas?

101.5 KNUE

Two days ago, multiple news sources reported about a woman getting into a car crash in Idaho - she blamed Bigfoot.

The Famous Bigfoot Whoop

Bigfoot Evidence - blogger

Bigfoot Evidence. World's Only 24/7 Bigfoot News Blog: Encouraging readers to draw their own conclusions from the evidence and arguments.

Bigfoot Guru Scott Carpenter

Bigfoot Evidence - blogger

Bigfoot author and researcher Scott Carpenter joins Nite Callers Radio to talk about some of his various findings.

Todd Standing's Sasquatch videos and Bigfoot North footage

Godlike Productions

Todd Standing has no credibility in the Sasquatch community. The bigfoot in his videos look like someone in makeup. In fact, they look like Todd in ...

Idaho Driver Claims Sasquatch Responsible for Deer Collision

BodyShop Business

Law enforcement authorities found no evidence of a sasquatch or bigfoot at the accident site. However, FoxNews.com points out that the accident ...

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.

NEWSLINK: Panther Kittens Have Been Seen Outside T...

SIGHTING, UK: Photos of 'big cat the size of a Lab...

PHOTOS: Tiger Cubs: A Sign of Hope in Thailand