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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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Wednesday, September 06, 2017

JACKIE CHAN JOINS THE FIGHT FOR PANGOLINS

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.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE FUN FUN FUN NOW THEY'VE TAKEN THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN AWAY

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
 
Somos memorias de lobos que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens
e o tornarao a ser...
They awake for flesh
Choose pain as a path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me
Full Moon Madness
We are as one and congregate
Full Moon Madness
 
By the way, forgive me for banging on about this but on a personal level I would be very grateful if you could spread the word about our rebooted monthly webTV series after a break of nearly four years. I actually hadn't realised it had been so long, but - then again - my concepts of time and space are fairly abstract at the best of times.
 
 
But now, here is the news:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Sensational Alex H...
RICK WAKEMAN INTERVIEW
Bruford - The Boxed Set Bill Bruford's Introductio...
YES IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
Gonzo Weekly #250
THE RITES OF MUMUMIFICATION ISSUE
 
The events organised by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in Liverpool last week: The cultural event of the decade? Or something properly important? Jon interviews Tony Palmer about his legendary film of Tangerine Dream, Alan goes to the Magic Gathering in Lithuania, Richard muses on handshakes, and Biffo talks about sexist Yugoslav computer magazines - no we haven’t made that one up! In fact we never make any of it up.
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Strange Fruit, but Friday Night Progressive is taking a week off. 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 antichinuses who have blown a figurative fuse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have got cross for some reason, 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 Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Chester Bennington, David Bowie, ZZ Top, Katie Hopkins, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell, William Tobe Hooper, Wilson das Neves, Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop, Mohammed Abdul Jabbar, L N Shastri, Lawrence Joseph Elgart, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Tony Palmer, Tangerine Dream, Alan Dearling, Magick Gathering, Timid Kooky, Medonas, Ignas is Ignalinos, Josh Johnstone & The Bonnie Doons, Thundering Down, Celsijus, The Holy Modal Rounders, Du-Tels, The Incredible String Band, Robin Williamson, Peggy Seeger, Kev Rowland, All 4 1, Asphalt Horsemen, Attila, Beneath, Big Big Train, Blind Guardian, Decapitated, Disengage, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Beatles, The Who, U2, Billy Currie, Ultravox, Michael Jackson, Queen, Neil Nixon,  Durutti Column
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
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 58 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?

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.

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  • THYLACINES IN THE NEWS




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    ANOTHER NEWS STORY

    MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Snake charmers in Hong Kong

    I stumbled across these words on the Gwulo.com  Hong Kong history web site in a post by Kirstin Moritz on November 8th 2011 titled `1970s Stanley Village: Photos and memories`. I was very surprised to find out that snake charming takes place outside of India,in this case in Stanley Village,Hong Kong:

    Then on one memorable occasion, a snake charmer came to the market about 8 in the morning on a gray winter day with his cobras.  He made them dance and then in front of the whole crowd he slaughtered them all, draining the blood and selling it in cups to the little old ladies and men in black for $80 HK a cup.  Then he chopped the snakes into pieces, wrapped the pieces in newspaper, and sold them, leaving only the blood stains on the concrete of the market place to suggest the violence of the morning."

    Apparently snake charming originated in Egypt and occurs in China



    Richard

    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 LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

    CFZ-USA


  • NEW BOOK BY DARREN NAISH
  • MEGALANIA
  • DOES HONSHU WOLF STILL EXIST?
  • WEIRD GIANT BIRD IN FINLAND
  • STORIES OF THE PIGMAN
  • COW-BEAR HYBRIDS
  • ENCOUNTER WITH BIGFOOT
  • BIGFOOT STALKS HITCH HIKERS
  • INTERNATIONAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE
  • ACCOUNTS OF THUNDERBIRD SIGHTINGS
  • KAIJIN - JAPANESE SEA CRYPTID
  • PUCK - LEGENDARY ENGLISH SPRITE
  • STRANGE BAT LIGHT
  • LITTLE PEOPLE - GHOSTS OR FAIRIES?
  • BIGFOOT ON THE SCARY SIDE
  • BIGFOOT IN VERMONT
  • EARLY MERMAID REPORT
  • BIGFOOT STORIES AT CONFERENCE
  • SMETTY - MONSTER OF WYOMING
  • HYPNOTIC REGRESSION AND ASTONISHING ALIEN
  • BIGFOOT IN IDAHO
  • SYKES BOOK ON HOMINIDS AND HOMININS
  • MEN WHO TURNED INTO WHALES
  • SINGAPORE MONKEY-MAN
  • APELIKE CREATURE
  • SCULPTURE OF SASQUATCH
  • SPACE CLAMS - WEIRD CRYPTIDS OF NEVADA
  • GRAY ALIENS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
  • CRYPTID PLACES
  • MUHURU - A SURVIVING DINOSAUR?
  • DOES STELLER'S SEA COW SURVIVE?
  • IS BIGFOOT TAPPING AT THE WINDOW?
  • FRIGHTENING DOGMAN ENCOUNTER
  • MOST INTERESTING INSECTS
  • 381 NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED
  • ALIENS IN OHIO?
  • GIANT ELEPHANT OF YORE
  • PETS RESCUED FROM HARVEY
  • HUMBER RIVER MONSTER
  • CHUCHUNYA - THE SIBERIAN SNOWMAN
  • SKEPTIC BECOMES BIGFOOT BELIEVER
  • MULTIPLE WITNESS BIGFOOT CASE
  • BIGFOOT - MISSING LINK?
  • LOST ECOSYSTEM
  • HUMANOID WITH GLOWING HEAD
  • BIGFOOT - REAL OR HOAX?
  • BIGFOOT WRITER INTERVIEWED
  • NEW CRAB DISCOVERED
  • MORE PLANETS THAT MAY HAVE LIFE
  • VED - HUMANOID OF CROATIA
  • MAN'S BEST FRIEND
  • BIGFOOT GETS AROUND
  • BIGFOOT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
  • FLYING SHADOW NEAR CHICAGO
  • IS BIGFOOT NERVOUS?
  • GIANT SQUID IN SPAIN
  • ARE MYSTERY SIGNALS FROM ALIENS?
  • BIGFOOT IN OREGON
  • SHITA - MONSTER OF THE HOPI
  • ELF TRADITIONS IN NORTHERN ENGLAND
  • FAERIE ENCOUNTERS IN SCOTLAND
  • DIFFERENT ALIEN TYPES
  • JACK THE RIPPER - IDENTITY REVEALED?
  • BIGFOOT IN YOSEMITE
  • FURRY HEN OF HERZEGOVINA
  • SHADOW MAN
  • MORE CHICAGO MOTHMAN SIGHTINGS
  • IS BIGFOOT IN MINNESOTA?
  • BIGFOOT PRESENTATION
  • GAJAH MINA
  • "DAEDALUS" SEA SERPENT IDENTIFIED?
  • LESSER KNOWN CRYPTIDS
  • CHICKENS AS PETS
  • SCARY DOGMAN ENCOUNTERS
  • TRUCK DRIVER PURSUES BIGFOOT
  • BLACK-EYED KID SIGHTING
  • DID ALIENS MAKE MOON?
  • BERBALANGS - MAN-EATING CREATURES
  • DOES MOA STILL EXIST?
  • ONLINE AUCTION OF RHINOCEROS HORN
  • DOGMAN TRANSFORMS DOGS
  • BIGFOOT IN CALIFORNIA
  • MERMAID SIGHTING 1894
  • SOUTHERN SEA SERPENTS


  • WHAT EXACTLY IS DARK MATTER?
  • BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1189 - England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


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  • 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.