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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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Friday, July 14, 2017

LIZ BITAKARAMIRE: The Monkey Town Trail 2017 (Part Two)

For those of you interested in the Heywood Monkey Town Parade, there is still just over a month to pay a visit to our collection of gorillas. Here is a helpful map, courtesy of events organisers and disability charity PossAbilities:



OH WHERE, OH WHERE, HAS THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GONE? OH WHERE OH WHERE CAN HE BE?

The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
 
Fridays are the usually the day that I spend poring over a hot magazine. That actually sounds rather unfortunate but I do hope that you know what I mean. This week, however, my delightful step-secretary Olivia was otherwise engaged on Wednesday, her usual day, to do stuff with me and so we’re doing it today instead. And yesterday, therefore, I finished my bits for the magazine bright and early (if you call 11pm early). I don’t know why I’m telling you all this because I seriously doubt that it is of any interest to anybody, but at least it proves that I am up and about doing stuff rather than slouched in my armchair with a Jack Russell and a bottle of vodka!
 
But now, here is the news:
 
YES IN THE NEWS
SPIRITS BURNING IN THE UK
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Ignorant - The L...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Weekly #242
THE MIDNIGHT TOKER ISSUE
 
John B-G travels across the Atlantic to see the Steve Miller Band|and Peter Frampton, Jon muses on The Beatles again, Alan visits Ben Chasny, Jeremy critiques Peter Perrett’s long awaited album and Richard visits psychedelic Cambodia.
 
Yup, and it’s all free!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and numbats with the right to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become eligible to vote, 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, Steve Earle, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Spike Lee, Stew, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Blackwell Jr., Rudy Rotta, Barry Leslie Norman, CBE, Kelan Phil Cohran, Joan Clayton Boocock Lee, Pierre Henry, Carol Lee Scott,  Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke,  Jeremy Smith, Peter Perrett, Alan Dearling, Ben Chasny, Ben Flashman, Ethan Miller, Comets on Fire, Howlin' Rain, John Brodie-Good, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller, Richard Foreman, Cambodia, Kev Rowland, Elegant Simplicity, Five Horse Johnson, Goblin, Shadow of Doubt, Jorn, Domingo Candelario, Glen Vaudrey, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hoaxwind, Xtul, John Higgs, Biggie Smalls, Mic Conway's Whoopee Band, Beyonce, Kurt Cobain, Cream, Grateful Dead, The Dragons
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
 
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?

CRYPTOLINKS: More on the North Carolina "Lake Monster"

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

Loch Ness Monster redux? 'Dinosaur-like-creature' reportedly spotted in North Carolina lake
A 35-year-old man from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has reportedly spotted a dinosaur-like, creature in a man-made lake....


Loch Ness Monster redux? 'Dinosaur-like-creature' reportedly spotted in North Carolina lake
He famous it was round 10-feet-long and reminded him of the legendary Loch Ness monster. No photographs have been taken of the creature ...

SEA-SERPENT NEWS


But Gloucester's Sea Serpent, as visitors to the Cape Ann Museum will learn ... Anderson, who believes in the Gloucester Sea Serpent, is not alone.
Attacked by Sea Serpent off Miminegash, 1879
nusual encounters at sea never fail to entertain in the re-telling. “At Miminegash, in the western part of Prince Edward Island, on the 16th day of August ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF





A 7-foot tall half-man, half-ape monster called Bigfoot appears to be ... WBTV did a little digging and found out, of course, it's not the real Bigfoot, but ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1941 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Elephant tourism is 'fuelling cruelty'
  • Winging it: How do bats out-maneuver their prey?
  • How cats and cows protect farm children from asthm...

  • Researchers head into West Tennessee in hopes of t...


  • 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.