CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 04/22/20

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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...

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS TYPING FURIOUSLY

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk

I have been writing that we have been living in ‘interesting times’ for some years, but – at least in my lifetime – the world has never been as peculiar as it is now. We have been self-isolating diligently, and apart from Graham and Corinna, the only person that has entered the house in the last three weeks has been the district nurse, who changes the dressings on Corinna’s nephrostomy tubes and the dressings on the wound on my right foot, which is taking longer to heal than I would have liked.

But hey ho! I could bellyache for hours about our health problems, but compared to so many other people, they are a mere bagatelle!

One thing that may cheer you up is that there is a new episode of On The Track Xtra out:
https://tinyurl.com/y77b5gb4

The eagle-eyed amongst you will probably have noticed that the Gonzo Multimedia websites have changed and are in a process of flux, so there are no individual sales links at the moment. But check out www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk for a thing of wonder. The Gonzo Books site is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authors who need personal pages. You can find it ay www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:

"These links do not work,
now but they will do so soon,
we apologise"

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:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-…

Blessed be.

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/gonzo-track-of-day-…
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Beatles - Strawberry F...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/interview-with-jeff…
Interview with Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens)...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/john-lennon-yoko-on…
John Lennon Yoko Ono on The Mike Douglas show Day ...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/frank-zappas-hot-ra…
FRANK ZAPPA'S HOT RATS SESSIONS
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/thom-world-poet-dai…
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

THE GONZO PRIVACY POLICY
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-…

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog
And, yes,
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-pr…

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

Our webTV show:
https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/…/a-notion-of-shopkeepers…
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 #385/6
THE SOCIAL DISTANCNG ISSUE
www.gonzoweekly.com

In this singularly non-standard issue for singularly non-standard times we meet Tony Henderson and his models of rock stars past and present, we hear about how Dave Brock from Hawkwind has shared his creative process across the aether, Jon muses on Morrissey, and again ask whether art is tainted by the moral behaviour of the artist, talk about the global pandemic which currently threatens the wellbeing of the human race (WE DO THAT QUITE A LOT), we see how someone living in a van who happened to be in Morocco at the start of lockdown is coping, and we give you a list of free stuff which artists are generously giving away to help boost global morale at this horrible time. And much more...

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Frontieres, AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, although C.J.Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and 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:

Morrissey, Sam Wilkinson. Kev Rowland, Alan Dearling, Adam Smith, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Bob Andy (ne Keith Anderson CD), Mirna Doris (née Annunziata Chiarelli), Delroy Washington, Bert Olav Holmquist, Martin MBE (born William Wylie MacPherson), Joe Logan Diffie, Alan Merrill (born Allan Preston Sachs), Paravai Muniyamma, Jan Howard (born Lula Grace Johnson), Louie “L.A.” Kouvaris, Wallace Roney, Clementino Rodrigues (better known by the nickname Riachão), Louise Ebrel, Rafael Berrio, Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci), Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr., John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli, Adam Lyons Schlesinger, Patrick Francfort (aka Patrick Gibson), Alex Harvey (born Thomas Alexander Harvey), Helin Bölek, Karuranga Virgile (aka as DJ Miller), Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Tony Henderson, Addyction, The Adarna, The Already Dead, Alexander Nakarada, Gunpowder Gray, Into the Cave, Mob Rules, Blight House, Carl Marshall, Geordie Jackson, Dark Matters, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Thom the World Poet

..And the last few issues are:

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:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

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?

Who, why or what is Gonzo? Why are they blogging? and why should you care?GONZO MULTIMEDIA is a unique record company bringing you a wide variety of products from a number of renowned artists and record labels, largely spanning rock and pop music from the '60s to today, and the Gonzo catalogue inclu...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.

Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson

VIDEO - Two Coon Hunters Have Bigfoot Sighting in ...

PODCAST - Come Learn About Bigfoot and Bill Gates ...

Bigfoot Print Found in British Columbia?

Bigfoot? Footprint found near Lumby examined

Is there a difference between Bigfoot and Sasquatc...

OKLAHOMA - Multiple Bigfoot Sightings Reported at ...

BIG CAT ROUND UP

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.

THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

SOME WOMBAT FACTS

IPUPIARA

LYNGBAKUR - ICELANDIC LEGENDARY CREATURE

BEAST OF BRAY ROAD

THE SNARK - CELEBRATED FICTIONAL CREATURE

BIZARRE ANTLERED CREATURE

JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE

AT THE OCEAN BED

RAKE-LIKE HUMANOIDS

DIMINUTIVE BEING IN AUSTRALIA

AMERICA'S PHANTOM KANGAROOS

SASQUATCH - FOOTPRINTS CASTS

ESAKAR-PAKI

CHINESE DRAGON

CHUPACABRA - BLOOD SUCKING MONSTER

PATAGONIAN PLESIOSAUR

WOLF IN NORTHERN FRANCE

IS STRANDED KAYAKER BIGFOOT?

WHAT'S LURKING IN ILLINOIS CEMETERY?

WHOWIE - SIX-LEGGED REPTILE

GIANT NEW ZEALAND GECKO

NIGHT RAVEN OF SWEDEN

WILD MAN IN FRANCE

WHITE RIVER MONSTER

NEW GUINEA TIGER

BIGFOOT-LIKE CREATURES

PAYETTE LAKE MONSTER

FAIRIES OF THE WORLD

PANDA TWINS BORN IN CHINA

CRYPTID CANIDS

MYSTERY CAT IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

GIANT EXTINCT BAT DISCOVERED

CONTROVERSIAL CREATURES & GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

BERGMAN BEAR

AMBIZE - CENTRAL AFRICAN CRYPTID

WHAT WAS THE ENFIELD HORROR?

BIZARRE CREATURE IN WISCONSIN

NATIVE AMERICAN DOGMEN

IS DOGMAN RELATED TO HYENAS?

SCARY BIGFOOT ACTIVITY

OSNABURG MINE ANIMALS

WATER TIGER

WEREWOLF IN MEXICO

MACFARLANE'S BEAR - STRANGE BEAR OF THE ARCTIC

WHAT WAS THE XIPHIS?

MALAYSIAN DISEASE SPIRIT

BRAZILIAN DEFORESTATION COULD BRING NEXT PANDEMIC

TWO PALE WHITE HUMANOID ENCOUNTERS

FROM YE EDITOR....

DID WOMEN SEE FAIRIES?

LINDWORM - LEGENDARY SERPENT

IS THE BAIJI DOLPHIN REALLY EXTINCT?

WOOLLY MAMMOTH SIGHTINGS

MOORE LAKE MONSTER

MILTON LIZARD

FOLKLORE CREATURES OF SCOTLAND

POPE LICK MONSTER

THE GREAT AIRSHIP

DID MONKEYS CROSS THE ATLANTIC?

REBOBS OF THE NAPA VALLEY

THE NATURE OF BIGFOOT

THE ROBY MONSTER

ALGERIAN HAIRY VIPER

RED RIVER BIGFOOT

ENDANGERED SEA TURTLES HATCH

BIGFOOT DEPENDENCE ON HUMANS

ISOLATION AND TREE HUGGING

WORLD'S LONGEST ANIMAL

HUMANOID CRAWLERS

A VERY STRANGE TOAD

GNOME IN ECUADOR

TREE OCTOPUS IN NORTHWEST

ROBOFLOWERS

LOCH NESS MONSTER ARTICLE

BIGFOOT SHOT AND BURIED

OCTOPUSES COME ASHORE

PREHISTORIC DRAGONFLY

WHITE HUMANOID IN PENNSYLVANIA

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

Brisbane Street Mall's Tasmanian tiger statues undergoing new risk assessment

Tasmania Examiner

Mayor Albert van Zetten said any raising of the Thylacines in the mall would create a fall issue, which would require the installation of soft fall to keep up ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1500 - Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil.

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Blind salamander with translucent skin that can li...

An invasive flatworm from Argentina, Obama nungara...

Mud wasps used to date Australia's aboriginal rock...

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Failure ...

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)

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Wednesday, April 22, 2020