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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, December 06, 2017

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH BAND HOLDS ON TIGHT


The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
 
So my collection of post WTTDA things expands. My copy of "Enabling: Between the click and the bang" arrived in the post today.
 
It feels oddly like I am back in 1994/5 when I was playing at caseworkers with Tony "Doc" Shiels; Strange but happy days.
 
So I decided to see if I could play at the 23 game. It is far more difficult than one would have imagined.
 
This is an oddly satisfying excercise, it actually feels like I am composing haiku, something I have never managed before, strange to say.
 
I am too lazy to do it 23 times so I shall just re-write the rules and stick to the law of fives.
 
*****
 
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:
 
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Denny Laine with Paul ...
COMING THIS WEEKEND
YES IN THE NEWS
FRANK ZAPPA ARTICLES
 
Gonzo Weekly #263
THE BURN THE SHARD ISSUE
 
The Magic Band is on tour without Captain Beefheart. John was in the audience. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Burning the Shard in London last week in words and pictures. Cornish rapper Steve Heller report from Jeremy, NO SLEEP ‘TIL BODMIN and Hawkwind tomfoolery on eBay from Graham. In the meantime, Alan reports on Glastafari by Neil Goodwin, and there is
loads more...
 
Hail Eris!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney AND Strange Fruit, AND Friday Night Progressive. 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 southern dibblers who have blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are not good at household electrics, 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:
 
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Noel Gallagher, Brian Wilson, Prince, Gorillaz, Radiohead, U2, Rolling Stones, Jarvis Cocker, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Patrick Bourgeois, Mitch Margo, George Mesrop Avakian, John Francis Coates Jr., John Carl Hendricks, Tommy Keene, Talvin Wayne Cochran, Robert Lee "Pops" Popwell, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Alan Dearling, Glastafari, Neil Goodwin, John Brodie-Good, The Magic Band, Captain Beefheart, \kev Rowland, Bob Ferrel, Brandon Seabrook's Needle Driver, Carubine, Cave, Chris Parker, Coburg, Comeback Kid, Cradle of Filth, Jeremy Smith, Cornish Rap (CRAP), Steve Heller, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Rush, The Raconteurs,  Victoria Beckham, Dave Hill, Slade, David Bowie, Neil Nixon, Stephen Ettinger
 
And the last few issues are:
 
Issue 262 (DikMik)
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?

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS JUST ALRIGHT

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday/Thursday
 
What a peculiar life we lead. In the past few days I have interviewed legendary Film Maker Tony Klinger about The Who, legendary artist Martin Springett about his friendship with even more legendary artist Pauline Baynes (illustrator of the Narnia books), and legendary cryptozoologist Loren Coleman about why the latest rash of yeti articles in the press have mostly got the wrong end of the stick. And I have finally done what is needed to get the CDs of the Xtul EP sorted something like three years after the bulk of the recording.
 
Iwas told yesterday evening that an old friend of mine is very ill. My love and prayers go out to her.
 
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:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Frank Zappa - Florenti...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART ARTICLE
RICK SPRINGFIELD NEWS
ERIC BURDON NEWS
 
Gonzo Weekly #263
THE BURN THE SHARD ISSUE
 
The Magic Band is on tour without Captain Beefheart. John was in the audience. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu Burning the Shard in London last week in words and pictures. Cornish rapper Steve Heller report from Jeremy, NO SLEEP ‘TIL BODMIN and Hawkwind tomfoolery on eBay from Graham. In the meantime, Alan reports on Glastafari by Neil Goodwin, and there is
loads more...
 
Hail Eris!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney AND Strange Fruit, AND Friday Night Progressive. 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 southern dibblers who have blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are not good at household electrics, 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:
 
Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Noel Gallagher, Brian Wilson, Prince, Gorillaz, Radiohead, U2, Rolling Stones, Jarvis Cocker, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Patrick Bourgeois, Mitch Margo, George Mesrop Avakian, John Francis Coates Jr., John Carl Hendricks, Tommy Keene, Talvin Wayne Cochran, Robert Lee "Pops" Popwell, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Alan Dearling, Glastafari, Neil Goodwin, John Brodie-Good, The Magic Band, Captain Beefheart, \kev Rowland, Bob Ferrel, Brandon Seabrook's Needle Driver, Carubine, Cave, Chris Parker, Coburg, Comeback Kid, Cradle of Filth, Jeremy Smith, Cornish Rap (CRAP), Steve Heller, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Rush, The Raconteurs,  Victoria Beckham, Dave Hill, Slade, David Bowie, Neil Nixon, Stephen Ettinger
 
And the last few issues are:
 
Issue 262 (DikMik)
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?