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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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Monday, November 09, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WORRIES ABOUT ANGEL

The Gonzo Daily - Monday
 
And so another week trundles into gear. The big news of the day is that Jessica's cat Angel is missing. Please send your supplications to Saint Francis, Saint Anthony of Padua or Pan, depending on whether you want the patron saint of animals, the God of the animals or the patron saint of Lost and Found. Me? I hate it when my little girls are hurting so I am entreating all three...
 
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Kevin Ayers - Lady Rac...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Talking Shop: System 7
The Space Movie US review
TOMMIE PHILLIPS CREATES ALBUM ART FROM THE HEART F...
 
Gonzo Weekly #155
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Pink Fairies, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Beach Boys, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#155) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has the legendary Pink Fairies on the cover and in depth coverage of their recent London and Wolverhampton gigs inside. Doug goes to see Dungen,Jon critiques a fascinating new Biography of the Beach Boys, Dave McMann looks at the new Frank Zappa Roxy movie, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another from Mack Moloney. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
 
Nelson deMille, Pink Fairies, Noel Gallagher, One Direction, Glenn Frey, Keith Richards, Quadrophenia, Tom Jones, Barbara Dickson, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Wilson, The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Mihai Alexandru, Constantin Ignat, Adrian Rugena, Vlad Telea, Lauentiu Varlan, Tommy Overstreet, Raul Rekow, Nucleus, The RAZ band, Mark Murdock, Brand X, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Tim Rundall, Jeremy Smith, John Brodie Smith, Dungen, Frank Zappa, Dave McMann, Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Dave Brock, Dead Fred, Ian Abrahams, Xtul, The Beach Boys, Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, Wham!, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Pink Floyd, Nick Cave, Morrissey, Prince, The Beatles, Kiss, Yes, Billy Sherwood, Tony Kaye, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, AndersonPonty, Rick Wakeman, Geoff
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
 
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.com/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
 
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten 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, and sometimes a young lady called Jessica. 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 the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kitten?

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.

  • ARTICLE: Paleolithic humans in Europe dealt with s...
  • NEWSLINK: Activists say escaped tigers highlight M...
  • ARTICLE: Phantom of the Forest: Cougars in Eastern...
  • ARTICLE: 35 Things We Learned from the Roar Commen...

  • ART: Mystery big cat rises from ashes
  • NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)




    A new bid is being made to rename Inverness Airport to Loch Ness International Airport to cash in on the global appeal of the world famous loch and ...

    WHEN Gareth Williams decided to write a book about the Loch Ness monster , it quickly became clear that Nessie would have to share top billing with ...

    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



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    Woman From Alabama Is Once Bitten Twice Shy When It Comes To Dogmen Encounters
    Once Bitten! Christian lives in Northern Alabama. Not far from Huntsville. She used to love spending time in the outdoors, whenever she got the ...

    Rob Riggs, Bigfoot Researcher, RIP
    Back in the summer of 2003, I met - for the first time - a man named Rob Riggs. Like me, Rob had a fascination for the Bigfoot mystery. To the extent ...

    This Woman Was Terrified By Her Bigfoot Encounters (Video)
    This is the conclusion to the two part interview with Pamela Vasko on Bigfoot Outlaw Radio. Pamela had some amazing encounters with bigfoot ...

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Monday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by aU.S. president. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk


  • Vampire bats’ saliva is specially evolved for bloo...
  • The 'Collective Mind' of the Termite
  • Everglades' alligator numbers drop after dry years...
  • Rescuers work to free humpback whale from fishing ...
  • The great migration


  • Macedonia dam faces the axe over risk of Balkan ly...

  • 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)