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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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Friday, October 12, 2012

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

This is shaping up to be a very strange time - Corinna has hurt her eye (how we don't know), and this morning just as I settled down to start the day there was a God Almighty crash in the sitting room as a large flat stone fell out of the chimney. The house was built in 1805, and I suppose one should expect wear and tear, but it was not a nice surprise. Bob Skinner, by the way, points out that Matt and Emma's rescued frog is actually a toad, but it was still in need of rescuing so they are still bona fide good Samaritans. As the late, great Joan Aitken once wrote:

"The Samaritans came in two by two,
and paused to bandage the kangaroo"...

Corinna, Dave B-P, Jess and I will be off to Southampton on tuesday to see (and do stuff with) Jefferson Starship, and our friends Auburn who are the support act. Mother and Graham will be running the circus in our absence...

A letter from Chris Thompson (wot I pinched from his official website)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-letter-from-chris-thompson.html

There is a lot of exitement about the current Jefferson Starship tour on which Auburn are guesting. There are the first two reviews of Edinburgh the other night,,,
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-jefferson-starship-queens-hall.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-jefferson-starship-queens-hall_12.html

There is a lot of interest in Jeff Lynne at the moment with a slew of retrospective documentaries and a new album featuring his re-recordings of classic ELO tunes. The Gonzo Lost Broadcasts dvd of The Move, therefore came out at just the right time says this reviewer who opens up with such a dreadful pun that I wish it had been me who had written it. (BTW we will be critiquing the BBC documentary about Jeff Lynne in a day or two)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/link-review-of-lost-broadcasts-dvd-by.html

EXCLUSIVE: Well, as regular readers will be aware, Jefferson Starship are currently on tour with Auburn as support act. And as regular readers will also be aware, I have a very soft spot for Auburn, and so I have been keeping in touch with the lovely Liz who is giving the Gonzo Daily exclusive backstage reports from the tour...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/exclusive-liz-lenten-is-on-road-with.html

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet for another of his thought-provoking writings.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_12.html

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the second part of my recent chat with Michael Des Barres in which we discuss his plans for the future, his next album, a docmentary film being made about him, and why rock and roll is so bloody important. More tomorrow.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/exclusive-interview-michael-des-barres_12.html


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 Editor is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?

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