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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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Monday, November 27, 2017

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
Strange Days. Some years ago I made a record called "The Man from Dystopia" which was, basically, a Frank Zappa pun meant top amuse my old friend Dave McMann. Now Dave is dead, and the dystopia is upon us (the two things are not connected). So far today, after a whole lot of nonsense regarding identification protocols, I have had one of my bank accounts suspended because I did not understand a string of questions asked me by someone with such a strong accent that I did not understand him. Why not complain? I have a horrible idea that to do so would be considered racist in these unpleasant times. And not only am I not racist, but I would very much rather not be labelled as such on a set of official documents which would probably remain on my records - like a bad smell - for the rest of my life. And the poor bugger with whom I was dealing is probably constrained by as many safeguards and shackles as I am. It is not his fault that a deaf disabled man in late middle age couldn't understand him.
So I am going into Bideford tomorrow afternoon (taking a chunk that I would rather not have taken out of my day) to try and sort this all out face to face.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and spread the tidings of it far and wide:
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
But for now, here is the news:
Patrick Moraz CTTE Promo Interview
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: THE WATERBOYS - The R...
The Flying Burrito Brothers Country Cookin Intervi...
CRUISE TO THE EDGE
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #262
THE AUDIO GENERATOR SUPERSTAR ISSUE
We say goodbye to classic Hawkwind alumnus Dikmik with an all-star cast contributing to his send off, John goes to see Caravan, Alan goes into the world of Urban Exploration, Nick talks about The Professionals and Jon muses disturbingly on Charles Manson.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney AND Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive is having a week off. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have been at the laxatives, 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:
harles Manson, David Cassidy, Sir Peter Blake, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Procul Harum, Dave Kerzner, Merrell Fankhauser, Richard Muirhead, Big Country, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Warren "Pete" Moore, Lonnie Melvin Tillis, Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr., Bonnie Flower, Gustav Åhr (Lil Peep), Rodney Bewes, Malcolm Mitchell Young, Barbara Dickson, Jessice Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Graham Inglis, Ian Abrahams, Brian Tawn, Michael "DikMik" Davies,  Alan Dearling, Urban Solo, John Brodie-Good, Caravan, Nick Redfern, The Professionals, Kev Rowland,  Voodoma, World Trade, Alazka, Ancient Vvisdom, Belphegor, Bionatops, Black Paisley, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Hawkwind, Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, Pink Floyd
Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)
Issue 259 (Out come thee Freaks)
Issue 258 (The Devil's Jukebox)
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
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?

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



REAL Bigfoot caught on cam during military exercise in Holland!
A Dutch soldier on a military exercise in the Dutch wild life park Veluwe recently caught a strange creature on his i-Phone cam. A real Bigfoot runs ..
Why the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film Should Concern Scholars of Human Origins
Perceptions of “The Bigfoot Film”. Today we have a new subject with the potential to make a profound and unexpected impact upon human origins and ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN -
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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).