CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 10/21/20

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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, October 21, 2020

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

Are big cats a tall tale? Scientists are using DNA to prove dark shadows aren't folklore

The Australian

World-renowned thylacine hunter Michael Moss has spent decades searching for the marsupial in Victoria. Footage he captured of a doglike animal ...

Thylacine hunter Michael Moss enlists EnviroDNA to use new technology to see once and for all if ...

The Mercury

The extinct Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, survives only in a few clips of grainy film. In May 2020, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS CONCERNED

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

Carl has gone home/ my bedroom is painted/ we unsuccesfully tried to catch a vole Dotty brought into the sitting room/ Charlotte will be over soon/ There may or may not be blogs tomorrow because I have a hospital appointment/I don't think there is anything to worry about with said hospital appointment/that is all (I think)

But we do have a new episode of OTT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjEdeC5mZ8U

And a new edition of A&M for you

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/animals-men-70.html

Like Marge Simpson, I never really knew what it meant, but keep on trucking!

https://baboon.wixsite.com/website-1

The Gonzo Books site is now pretty well done, and there is also a new CFZ Publcations website at https://baboon.wixsite.com/website 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"

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO SQUINT

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/10/joey-molland-new-album.html

JOEY MOLLAND: New album

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/10/hawkwind-in-guardian.html

HAWKWIND: In the Guardian

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/10/yes-evolution-of-roundabout.html

YES: The Evolution of 'Roundabout'

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_21.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2020/10/gonzo-track-of-day-frank-zappa-saturday.html

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Frank Zappa - Saturday Nig...</a>

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog

And, yes,

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

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/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

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 #411/12

THE RED ISSUE

www.gonzoweekly.com

This magazine continues to go off on strange tangents that I never expect, but I am very happy to see it do so. What is in this week? Ooooh lots of things. Such as Extinction Rebellion, COVID Conversations, America (the band), Mick Jagger, Justin Mitchell, Arrested Development, Innes Watson, Hawkwind and oodles more, animal rescue with PAART, Reminiscences from Tony Klinger, and other stuff of interest.

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive, AND Merrell Fankhauser, and the Real Music Club, AND Strange Fruit, and Mr Biffo, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Tony Klinger, and C.J Stone, but Mr Biffo, and Neil Nixon, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and dibblers who have got the blues (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are listening to the new Bob Dylan album, 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!!!

..And the last few issues are:

Issue 407-8 (Jimi Hendrix)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-405-6.html

Issue 405-6 (Corinna)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-405-6.html

Issue 403-4 (Covid Conspiracies)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-403-4.html

Issue 401-2 (The Westway)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-401-2.html

Issue 399-40 (Kosmik Ken)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-399-40.html

Issue 397-8 (Liz Lenten)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-397-8.html

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 a recently widowed old hippy of 61 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 a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

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 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.

ZOO NEWS (w/e 19th Oct)

UK BIG CATS