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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, July 13, 2018

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES

The Gonzo Daily: Thursday/Friday/Saturday
 
I am sorry to have disappeared on you all yesterday. As I wrote on Wednesday evening I was feeling very unwell. Well it got worse yesterday, and I felt extremely yuck and slept all day. I feel considerably better today, and hence am in the office a little bit, although I very much doubt whether I shall do more than the blogs, and will probably go back to bed soonish. Thank you to all of you who have written to me for your kind words. It is the first time in nearly six years that I have aborted an issue of the magazine for illness reasons, and although I feel stupidly guilty for doing so, I think that my record isn't too bad. I was just about to write something erudite about oarfishes, but I think that is beyond me today...
 
And for those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:
 
 
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here: http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog And, yes,
 
 
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and spread the tidings of it far and wide:
 
 
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
 
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
 
buy my novel:
buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an elephant mask, honest:
buy my single:
 
But for now, here is the news:
 
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Boomtown Rats - I Don'...
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
HAWKWIND NEWS
YES NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
 
 
Gonzo Weekly #294
THE SEE JUNGLE SEE JUNGLE GO JOIN YOUR GANG YEAH CITY ALL OVER GO APE CRAZY ISSUE
 
In this remarkably eclectic issue, which is one of my favourites for a while, Doug meets Annabella Lwin from the legendary Bow Wow Wow. Wow! Alan discusses the rewilding of the British coastline, John takes a critical look at Dweezil Zappa, Wooden Sjhips, Jessica Risker and more, while Jon talks about Mott the Hoople and Sadie Mae Glutz and Graham brings us up to date with Hawkwind news. YOU CANNOT GET MUCH MORE ECLECTIC THAN THAT!
 
#Hail Eris!
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, although Neil Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are having a well-deserved week off. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:
 
Rewilding Britain, Mott the Hoople, Paul McCartney, Public Image Limited, Andrew Boff, cannabis, Yes, Morrissey, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Henry Butler, Alan Longmuir, William Russell Watrous III, Roy Carr, Jahvante (Smoke Dawg) Smart, Eugene Sampson Pitt, Big Bill Bissonnette, Harlan Jay Ellison, Richard Swift, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Doug Harr, Bow Wow Wow, Annabelle Lwin, Alan Dearling, Rewilding Britain, Devon, Berwickshire, John Brodie-Good, Wooden Shjips, Jessica Risker, Rusty Young, Poco, Diana Mangano, Dweezil Zappa, Darryl Williams, Kev Rowland, Johannes Luley, Karkaos, Bugra Sisman, King Goat, Krepuskul, Last Days of Eden, Legend of the Seagullmen, Letters from the Colony, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Susan Atkins-Whitehouse (aka Sadie Mae Glutz), Helter Skelter, Charles Manson, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Syd Barrett, Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson, Blackbeard
 
And the last few issues are:
 
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
 
 
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 58 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?

CRYPTOLINKS: Chilean oarfish

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 


In Japan, there is the figure of ” Namazu “, a sea serpent that lives under the country and that every time it appeared, it caused an earthquake.

The elongated deep-sea fish, identified as the rare giant oarfish, stunned ... In another image, an angler can be seen lying next to the dead creature.

A group of fishermen thought they had caught a mysterious 16 foot (5 metre) long sea serpent - but it was really just a giant fish. Footage shows the ...