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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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Sunday, April 09, 2017

THE HEN IS LORD MERLIN

The Gonzo Daily – Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
 
I really am not too sure about the world in which we live in
the planet itself is beautiful, but I hope I am forgiven
but the human race en masse gets on my tits, and on this topic
although I love and/or like individual folk I get more misanthropic
with every day that passes and every email that I read
and all the useless information that is far more than I need
I realised some years ago that I really do not fit,
and that my chosen role in society is a bad tempered old git
 
Slainte
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Belarusian shamanic ch...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
PLAYLIST: sf203
Gonzo Magazine #229
HAWKWIND IN THE NEWS
 
 
Gonzo Magazine #229
THE MERCURY GOES INTO RETROGRADE ISSUE
 
I feel like one of those disaffected US Postal Workers who climb the water tower in the middle of the township and take potshots at starangers with a high powered assault rifle. But unfortunately my wife won't let me have a high powered assault rifle and there is no water tower so I will be having ice cream instead. However, first I have to tell you about the new issue of this remarkable little magazine of ours: Part Two of Jeremy’s EXCLUSIVE interview with Larry Wallis, Alan has arty hijinx in Lithuania, John looks forward to Record Store Day and other stuff, Richard profiles Warren Haynes, and Jon is wary of peculiar children...
 
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:
 
Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, Ringo Starr, The Zombies, Eric Clapton, John Lydon, Roger Daltrey, Marillion, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul O'Neill, Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr.), Gilbert Baker, Brenda Jones, L.A. Dre (born Andre Bolton), Rosalie Hamlin,  Elyse Steinman, David Peel (born David Michael Rosario), Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Jeremy Smith, Larry Wallis, Alan Dearling, Uzupis, Lithuania, UzBand, Hilltop Sheep, Muse, Kooky, A'Broken Leg, Aristokratai, Misko Gyventojai,  Deivis Nutautus, Bees (The Bites), John Brodie-Good, Record Store Day, Summer of Love, Linda Imperial Band, Jefferson Starship, 10cc, Richard Foreman, Warren Haynes, Kev Rowland, Pandora Snail, Aldaria, Aversions Crown, Battle Beast, Karda Estra, The Ed Palermo Big Band, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Mike Morsch, John Lennon, The Beatles, Roots Manuva, Snoop Dogg, AC/DC, Weird Al, Oasis
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
 
 
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 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?

Gonzo Magazine #229

Gonzo Magazine #229
THE MERCURY GOES INTO RETROGRADE ISSUE
I feel like one of those disaffected US Postal Workers who climb the water tower in the middle of the township and take potshots at starangers with a high powered assault rifle. But unfortunately my wife won't let me have a high powered assault rifle and there is no water tower so I will be having ice cream instead. However, first I have to tell you about the new issue of this remarkable little magazine of ours: Part Two of Jeremy’s EXCLUSIVE interview with Larry Wallis, Alan has arty hijinx in Lithuania, John looks forward to Record Store Day and other stuff, Richard profiles Warren Haynes, and Jon is wary of peculiar children...
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:
Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, Ringo Starr, The Zombies, Eric Clapton, John Lydon, Roger Daltrey, Marillion, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul O'Neill, Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr.), Gilbert Baker, Brenda Jones, L.A. Dre (born Andre Bolton), Rosalie Hamlin,  Elyse Steinman, David Peel (born David Michael Rosario), Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Jeremy Smith, Larry Wallis, Alan Dearling, Uzupis, Lithuania, UzBand, Hilltop Sheep, Muse, Kooky, A'Broken Leg, Aristokratai, Misko Gyventojai,  Deivis Nutautus, Bees (The Bites), John Brodie-Good, Record Store Day, Summer of Love, Linda Imperial Band, Jefferson Starship, 10cc, Richard Foreman, Warren Haynes, Kev Rowland, Pandora Snail, Aldaria, Aversions Crown, Battle Beast, Karda Estra, The Ed Palermo Big Band, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Mike Morsch, John Lennon, The Beatles, Roots Manuva, Snoop Dogg, AC/DC, Weird Al, Oasis
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
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.

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