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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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Sunday, July 09, 2017

Gonzo Weekly #242

Gonzo Weekly #242
THE MIDNIGHT TOKER ISSUE
John B-G travels across the Atlantic to see the Steve Miller Band|and Peter Frampton, Jon muses on The Beatles again, Alan visits Ben Chasny, Jeremy critiques Peter Perrett’s long awaited album and Richard visits psychedelic Cambodia.
Yup, and it’s all free!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, C J Stone, 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:

The Beatles, Steve Earle, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Spike Lee, Stew, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Blackwell Jr., Rudy Rotta, Barry Leslie Norman, CBE, Kelan Phil Cohran, Joan Clayton Boocock Lee, Pierre Henry, Carol Lee Scott,  Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke,  Jeremy Smith, Peter Perrett, Alan Dearling, Ben Chasny, Ben Flashman, Ethan Miller, Comets on Fire, Howlin' Rain, John Brodie-Good, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller, Richard Foreman, Cambodia, Kev Rowland, Elegant Simplicity, Five Horse Johnson, Goblin, Shadow of Doubt, Jorn, Domingo Candelario, Glen Vaudrey, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hoaxwind, Xtul, John Higgs, Biggie Smalls, Mic Conway's Whoopee Band, Beyonce, Kurt Cobain, Cream, Grateful Dead, The Dragons

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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 HEN HOPS

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
 
It's Sunday evening half past six
there's a heck of a lot I need to fix
but when I've finished with the blogs
I am going upstairs with the dogs
there's only so much a man can take
and I hope I'll be asleep by eight
 
Strange Days indeed...
 
Slainte
 
Yes members Geoff Downes and Billy Sherwood join C...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Search God Within - S...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #242
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #221
 
Gonzo Weekly #242
THE MIDNIGHT TOKER ISSUE
 
John B-G travels across the Atlantic to see the Steve Miller Band|and Peter Frampton, Jon muses on The Beatles again, Alan visits Ben Chasny, Jeremy critiques Peter Perrett’s long awaited album and Richard visits psychedelic Cambodia.
 
Yup, and it’s all free!
 
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, C J Stone, 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:
 
The Beatles, Steve Earle, Scott Walker, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Spike Lee, Stew, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, John Blackwell Jr., Rudy Rotta, Barry Leslie Norman, CBE, Kelan Phil Cohran, Joan Clayton Boocock Lee, Pierre Henry, Carol Lee Scott,  Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke,  Jeremy Smith, Peter Perrett, Alan Dearling, Ben Chasny, Ben Flashman, Ethan Miller, Comets on Fire, Howlin' Rain, John Brodie-Good, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller, Richard Foreman, Cambodia, Kev Rowland, Elegant Simplicity, Five Horse Johnson, Goblin, Shadow of Doubt, Jorn, Domingo Candelario, Glen Vaudrey, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hoaxwind, Xtul, John Higgs, Biggie Smalls, Mic Conway's Whoopee Band, Beyonce, Kurt Cobain, Cream, Grateful Dead, The Dragons
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
 
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...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Sunday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

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  • 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.)