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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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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS LUSTILY TO KEEP AWAY THE MONSTERS OF THE DARK

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
 
Yes/Rick Wakeman/Tony Ashton/Thom/Gib Guilbeau
 
And as Lady Selene retreats into her heavenly dance, I get on with my life once more. The news from the two Yes camps startled a lot of people yesterday. I had no forewarning whatsoever, but am not at all surprised. It is at times like this when Rock and roll is nearly as entertaining a spectator sport as British party politics! I look forward to seeing what happens next.
 
And now, here is the news:
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Gib Guilbeau - Sweet S...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE IN THE NEWS
YES IN THE NEWS
Rick Wakeman "GasTank" Polish review translated
 
Gonzo Magazine #229
THE MERCURY GOES INTO RETROGRADE ISSUE
 
I feel like one of those disaffected US Postal Workers who climb the water tower in the middle of the township and take potshots at starangers with a high powered assault rifle. But unfortunately my wife won't let me have a high powered assault rifle and there is no water tower so I will be having ice cream instead. However, first I have to tell you about the new issue of this remarkable little magazine of ours: Part Two of Jeremy’s EXCLUSIVE interview with Larry Wallis, Alan has arty hijinx in Lithuania, John looks forward to Record Store Day and other stuff, Richard profiles Warren Haynes, and Jon is wary of peculiar children...
 
Groovy huh?
 
It’s all free!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Friday Night Progressive, and Strange Fruit. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
 
Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, Ringo Starr, The Zombies, Eric Clapton, John Lydon, Roger Daltrey, Marillion, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul O'Neill, Lonnie Brooks (born Lee Baker Jr.), Gilbert Baker, Brenda Jones, L.A. Dre (born Andre Bolton), Rosalie Hamlin,  Elyse Steinman, David Peel (born David Michael Rosario), Emmie Beckitt and Rick Wakeman, Supertramp, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Al Atkins, Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Mary Hopkin, Jeremy Smith, Larry Wallis, Alan Dearling, Uzupis, Lithuania, UzBand, Hilltop Sheep, Muse, Kooky, A'Broken Leg, Aristokratai, Misko Gyventojai,  Deivis Nutautus, Bees (The Bites), John Brodie-Good, Record Store Day, Summer of Love, Linda Imperial Band, Jefferson Starship, 10cc, Richard Foreman, Warren Haynes, Kev Rowland, Pandora Snail, Aldaria, Aversions Crown, Battle Beast, Karda Estra, The Ed Palermo Big Band, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Martin Springett, Mike Morsch, John Lennon, The Beatles, Roots Manuva, Snoop Dogg, AC/DC, Weird Al, Oasis
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 228 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
 
 
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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, 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, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)




The Home Office has refused to grant residence status to the Loch Ness Monster after a group of Glasgow artists applied on Nessie's behalf.
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The Loch Ness Monster is alive and well and living in Anglezarke, reckons reader Linda Haworth of Sharples, who took this super picture of a fallen ...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



California Group Searches For Bigfoot In Ohio
GIRARD, OH - A group that's looking for Bigfoot drove all the way from California because they believe the creature is hiding out in Girard, Ohio.

Group says Bigfoot is in Ohio right now.
Group says Bigfoot is in Ohio right now. posted by KiddChris - Just now. comment; share. He must coming through Ohio for the coneys!!! { "position1" ...


Florida Bigfoot Team Makes HUGE Claim
The Trail To Bigfoot team say they have captured something on trail cam that will change everything. Proof of a bigfoot cloaking! Check this out: ...

Drone Captures Bigfoot Footage in Oregon
This footage of an alleged Bigfoot was taken in January, 2017 in South Fork McKenzie River, Oregon. What do you think? Read More: Bigfoot ...

Bigfoot FOUND? Search team deployed to woodland area after shock sighting
Members of the group Searching for Bigfoot have rushed to an area of woodland after reports of a “credible” sasquatch sighting. The photo was ...

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS


Move over Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster, the Thylacine, otherwise known as the Tasmanian Tiger, is the animal scientists are actively searching for.


The last thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was thought to have died in a zoo in 1936, the victim of ignorance and neglect on the part ...

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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.


  • NEWSLINK: Sabre-toothed tigers in ice-age Los Ange...
  • NEWSLINK/PHOTOS: Secret heartache of Longleat chee...
  • RONALD MURPHY'S NEW BOOK


    Paperback: 154 pages
    Publisher: cfz (24 Feb. 2017)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1909488518
    ISBN-13: 978-1909488519

    Join cryptozoologist and folklorist Ronald Murphy as he journeys throughout history in his quest to uncover the impetus for the archetype of the vampire. Beginning at the lair of cannibals at the dawn of human history, explore the images and evolving ideas of the vampire, tracing these concepts up to the information age. Keep a stake close by as you uncover the world of the vampire.







    At the moment this offer is only for customers in the United States, but never fear: Ronald has a team of especially trained goblins working on it, and we shall be selling books worldwide very soon...

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1096 - Peter the Hermit gathered his army in Cologne. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • How cobras developed flesh-eating venom – via Herp...
  • Controlling turtle motion with human thought – via...
  • Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pestici...
  • 'Sightings' of extinct Tasmanian tiger prompt sear...
  • Government badger cull kill targets 'deliberately ...
  • Real-life Sharknado? Cyclone Debbie washes up shar...


  • 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.)