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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, January 12, 2020

HAPPY HOPPY HIPPY HENS

The Gonzo Daily: Sunday
Shosh has gone home to Stoke and the house seems horridly empty. And - just like I did a year ago - I have managed to damage my foot, so I think I am gonna be getting my season ticket to the Podiatrist renewed.
Mother's Funeral will be at Barnstaple Crematorium at 9:40 on Friday 17th. All are welcome. No flowers please but donations in her name Dementia UK. https://www.dementiauk.org/ Thank you to all of you who have sent kind words and prayers to us following Mother's death and Corinna's most recent bout of illness. They are very much appreciated. Please forgive us for keeping a low profile at the moment.
Peace.
YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
Blessed be.
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -...
MORE ON THE HOT RATS SESSIONS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
I AM THE EGGPOD: The Star Club tapes
THE GONZO PRIVACY POLICY
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #371/2
THE NEW YEAR ISSUE
And in this first issue of the new decade we say goodbye to Mother, and to Paul Whitrow. Alan hikes the Pennine Way, Doug eulogises Terry Hall, and Jon remembers a night with Dr Strangely Strange, Mad Iccy looks at the ups and downs of 2020, while Graham looks at the last 12 months of activity on Planet Hawkwind.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Fronieres AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, but Mr Biffo, and C J Stone, and Neil Nixom abd Roy Weard, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for their footwear, 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:
Joan James, Paul Whitrow, Lee Pring, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Elton John, Marillion, Pet Shop Boys, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Dr. Strangley Strange, Richard Freeman, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury San Frontieres, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Amelia Cabeza de Pelayo Patterson (also known as Amy Patterson), Garrett List, Art Sullivan (born Marc Liénart van Lidth de Jeude), Thomas Paulsley LaBeff, Kelly Fraser, David Michael Riley, Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis, Ubirajara Penacho
dos Reis, Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert), Robert Edward Creech, Francisco "Patxi" Andión González, Kenneth Lynch, OBE, Arty McGlynn, Neil James Innes, Norma Cecilia Tanega, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Icarus Ruoff, Doug Harr, Terry Hall, PAART, Alan Dearling, Pennine Way, Calderdalee Valley, Kev Rowland, Disen Gage, Dvne, Entering Polaris, Eunomia, Back From Zero, Fomalgaut, Fuchsia, Tony Klinger, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Thom the World Poet, Goodreads, The Internet Archive, Agatha Christie, Joan Aiken
And the last few issues are:
Issue 371-2 (New Year)
Issue 369-70 (Christmas)
Issue 367-8 (Register to Vote)
Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
Issue 363-4 (Focus)
Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
Issue 357-8 (King Crimson)
Issue 355-6 (Elfin Bow)
Issue 353-4 (Melanie S Jane)
Issue 351-2 (Royal Affair)
Issue 349-50 (Experimental Sonic Machines)
Issue 347-8 (Gary Duncan)
Issue 345-6 (RDF)
Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
Issue 341-42 (America)
Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
Issue 337-38 (Zee)
Issue 335-36 (Raz)
Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
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 60 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

CFZ-USA


  • ORIGIN OF THE UNICORN
  • WORLDWIDE LIST OF WERE-CREATURES
  • BIGFOOT SIGHTING IN THE 80s
  • SEA MONSTER SIGHTINGS
  • 10 NEW BIRDS DISCOVERED
  • HORNED ROOSTER IN PERU
  • NEWLY DISCOVERED MANTIS
  • TOOL USE BY PUFFIN
  • MYSTERY ANIMAL IN THE WATER
  • BLACK SHADOW WITH "SEVERED HEAD"
  • BIGFOOT IN NORTH CAROLINA
  • THYLACINE SIGHTING
  • SEA MONSTER REPORTED 1891
  • SIGHTING OF PTERODACTYL
  • EELS OF LARGE SIZE
  • BIGFOOT MUSEUMS IN THE UNITED STATES
  • ALIEN BIG CATS IN AUSTRALIA
  • SKUNK APE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
  • IS CIVILIZATION DOOMED?
  • Dobhar-chú: The Giant Otter Monster of Ireland | B...
  • ROBOTIC VOICE FROM WOODS
  • BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER 1978
  • AMAZONS WERE NO MYTH
  • PREDICTING BIGFOOT DISTRIBUTION
  • 2019: PENNSYLVANIA UFOs AND CRYPTIDS
  • KOALAS: A SPECIES IN DANGER
  • UNIDENTIFIED CREATURE IN NEW YORK
  • DOGMAN IN ILLINOIS
  • IS THIS A SKUNK APE?
  • KENTUCKY GOBLINS - NEW LEADS
  • IRWIN FAMILY AND BUSHFIRES
  • SUPPOSEDLY EXTINCT WILD DOG DISCOVERED
  • BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS
  • FIRST BRITISH ASTRONAUT AND ALIENS
  • BURNT KANGAROO NEEDS HELP
  • BIZARRE CREATURES
  • FOUR WINGED HUMANOIDS
  • MISSING 411: A COUPLE OF LINKS
  • STALKED BY DOGMEN?
  • BRENIN LLWYD
  • GUOSHANHUANG
  • CAPELOBO - HORRIFIC CREATURE
  • SOUND OF APPROACHING BIGFOOT
  • GRATEFUL BEHAVIOR OF ELEPHANTS
  • FORGOTTEN SEA SERPENTS
  • BIGFOOT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
  • QUEENSLAND TIGER
  • WHAT WAS THIS UNIDENTIFIED CREATURE?
  • ALIEN BIG CATS
  • LARGE OTTER-LIKE CREATURE
  • WHITE RIVER MONSTER
  • MEN WITH TAILS
  • BIGFOOT IN KANSAS
  • BIGFOOT AND BABY
  • LAKE SUPERIOR MONSTER
  • KNOXVILLE MYSTERY ANIMAL
  • BIGFOOT WOMAN ON VIDEO
  • HAIRY HUMANOIDS IN SEWER
  • CAPE TOWN CREATURE
  • RECENT THYLACINE SIGHTINGS
  • AN UNUSUAL FRIENDSHIP
  • AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS DIE IN BUSHFIRE
  • BIGFOOT NEAR SHIPROCK
  • MANTIS MAN SEEN IN IN CHICAGO
  • BAT-WINGED MONKEY BIRD
  • DWENDIS AND UNDERWEAR
  • BIGFOOT IN CALIFORNIA: ANOTHER REPORT
  • BEAST OF BLADENBORO
  • GIANT SPIDER IN NATIONAL PARK?
  • THE BLACK DEMON - LEGENDARY SHARK
  • FLYING HUMANOIDS - A PARTIAL EXPLANATION?
  • PHANTOM BLACK DOG - AT POINT PLEASANT


  • GURNEY'S PITTA IN DANGER
  • NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Sunday

    ON THIS DAY IN -  1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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  • More than 200 elephants in Zimbabwe die as drought...
  • Cows swept off island during Hurricane Dorian foun...
  • Mouse deer species not seen for nearly 30 years is...
  • Aussie researchers mount rescue bid for endangered...


  • 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)