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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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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN


And so the week continues. I did several rather interesting interviews yesterday afternoon, with a number more to do this week. I have also got hold of a copy of Pete Townshend's autobiography which is completely gripping. Today I shall be continuing work on Nick Redfern's book on British BHM phenomena, which is another one of the books that we will hopefully have out for Christmas...
I was aware of Barbara Dickson. Of course I was. No-one who has even the slightest involvement in pop music over the past four decades could fail to be. But until yesterday, I had never really listened to her. And it was a real eye opener. The lovely Anne-Marie from Gonzo asked me to write sales notes for her forthcoming album, and because I don't like relying on Wikipedia, and I knew next to nothing about her, I decided to set up an interview. And I also typed her name into my ever faithful Spotify, and listened to her for the first time. She has an amazing voice, but one which even when she is singing the glossiest showbiz ballad still has the resonance of the open moorlands and cold ocean winds of her native Scotland. And to talk to? She is an absolute delight. Eloquent, intelligent and insightful, she is an interviewer's dream. So herewith the first of a three part interview. I hope that it will be the first of many..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exclusive-barbara-dickson-interview.html
Our daily visit to the home of Thom the World Poet, deep in the heart of Texas...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_6.html
I have been having problems with skype over the last few days, which means that several interviews that I have supposed to have been doing didn't get done. However, I finally caught up with the mightily talented Paul May of the Atkins/May project (together with original Judas Priest singer Al Atkins)...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/exclusive-paul-may-interview.html
I always thought that Judy Dyble had a lovely voice, and so I have been overjoyed this past few years to see signs that she is stirring and coming back into the public eye. Check out this from Norwegian TV back in 2010...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/judy-dyble-on-norwegian-tv.html
There are many advantages to living out in the sticks in a part of North Devon that no-one ever goes to. However, it does mean that I am too far away from shows like this one featuring Rick Wakeman and classic prog artist Roger Dean
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/link-rick-wakeman-and-roger-dean.html
Gonzo Multimedia has an excellent Stephen Stills DVD in the Lost Broadcasts series which eminently gives me a perfect excuse to post this link to the man himself talking revealingly about the abortive Buffalo Springfield reunion...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/link-stephen-stills-breaks-silence-on.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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