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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, September 07, 2016

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From CFZ-USA:

CFZ PEOPLE: Martin Eve has graduated


Congratulations dear boy

CORINNA FOUND THIS - AND IT IS HORRIBLY TRUE



Read on...


FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 

Well, everything, actually! 

 In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.








BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




A Bigfoot -like creature dubbed the Yowie is thought to have been captured in amazing footage as it yomped through woods. The clip, released on The ...

A Bigfoot -like creature dubbed the Yowie is thought to have been captured in amazing footage as it yomped through woods. The clip, released on The ...

A bushwalker claims to have spotted the mythical Yowie on a rural mountain range, causing a stir among the online Bigfoot hunting community.

 Find Huge Bigfoot Prints On Incline Near Where We Saw Bigfoot In 2015
On the same hillside as where my uncle and I saw Bigfoot in 2015, i discover some pretty deep tracks /prints that look like Bigfoot . This hillside is in the ...

Hear the Sierra Sounds, the Most Compelling Evidence of Bigfoot Speech Ever Recorded
Hear the Sierra Sounds, the Most Compelling Evidence of Bigfoot Speech Ever Recorded. By Dana Matthews on 09/06/2016@Weird_Dana.

Bigfoot Pioneers And Legends (Video)
This is a collection of video segments featuring some of the greatest bigfoot research pioneers. Greats like Rene Dahinden, Grover Krantz, Peter Byrne ...

Do Bigfoot Make Cameras Malfunction?
Some bigfoot investigators complain of camera and other equipment malfunctions whenever bigfoot is in the area. Do bigfoot cause these things?

Staring Down An Ohio Bigfoot
In 2011, Ohio Bigfoot Hunter Tim Stover may have captured a Bigfoot right in front of him while trying to get some odd lights in the night sky.

Law Enforcement Officer Shares His Bigfoot Encounters (Commentary)
A law enforcement officer shared his encounters with Bigfoot. Phil Poling of Parabreakdown took a look at this and gave us his thoughts. What do you ...

INCREDIBLE footage has emerged which appears to show the legendary beast Bigfoot caught on camera. on video by accident in this astonishing ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN JUST IS

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
 
Yesterday I received an email from Tony Palmer telling me that Richard Neville had died at the age of 74, in Byron Bay, New South Wales, the Australian hippy enclave where Gilli Smyth breathed her last only a few days before. Now I never met Neville. Our acquaintanceship was confined to two emails about five years ago when I was working on the new edition of Tony Palmer’s The Trials of Oz. I exchanged a few more emails with Jim Anderson, and had no contact whatsoever with Felix Dennis, so I cannot really be called an insider of the Oz scene. But Neville came out with one of my favourite quotes from the counterculture: “There is some corner of a foreign field that is forever Woodstock”, and was an undeniably major figure in that much maligned social movement.
 
He seemed to be someone who brought out strong reactions in people. Whilst I was working on The Trials of Oz I discovered that people were either terribly fond of the man or disliked him intensely. I never found anyone who was ambivalent towards him. Even after his death, as I sent emails around the usual suspects asking for their memories of him, most people refused to be drawn one way or the other, with those who had been friends with him at various periods of their lives being totally devastated that they had woken up this morning to a planet where Richard Neville was no longer alive.
 
Me? I am no better than any of the others. I have no knowledge of him personally, and whereas I found large chunks of Oz unreadable, I was impressed by his book Playpower and in the passages about him in Tony Palmer’s book he struck an undeniably heroic figure against the same sort of establishment malice which had (as alluded to above) turned me against my parents twenty years back.
 
So where is this taking me? I truly don’t know, but if there had not been a Richard Neville, there might well not have been a Gonzo Weekly magazine. I first read The Trials of Oz whilst on holiday with my patients back when I was a Registered Nurse for the Mentally Subnormal [RNMS] nearly thirty years ago, and it was one of the sacred texts, together with A Series of Shock Slogans and Mindless Token Tantrums by Penny Rimbaud et al, that set me on the path that I am on now. But when I finally read the Schoolkid’s Oz, I thought it was puerile bollocks, and was massively underwhelmed. But I too find it hard to adjust to the fact that I have woken up this morning to a planet where Richard Neville was no longer alive.
 
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
 
buy my novel:
buy my single:
 
And now for the news................
 
Bill Elliot & The Elastic Oz Band - 'God Save Us' ...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: "Awaken" - Jon Anderso...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Eric Burdon in Newcastle, BBC 'Look North', August...
RICK WAKEMAN: Change of law regarding leaving dogs...
GONZO SERVER CHANGE
 
Gonzo Magazine #198
 
Alan discovers how Steve Ignorant - a motormouthed  punk  icon - swapped the Tourette’s  rage of Crass for a life as a Punch and Judy Professor. He also has a very Weird Weekend. Jon, however, muses on Al Stewart and reads about Miss Peregrine and her Peculiar Children. John says goodbye to Gilli Smyth of Gong and Doug gets a whiff of Perfume!
 
Good ‘ere innit?
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. 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:
Al Stewart, Charles Manson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Prince, John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, Gregg Kofi Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Dwane "Hoot" Hester, Gene Wilder, Martin Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman, Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano, Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, Alan Dearling, Steve Ignorant, Perfume, Gilli Smyth, Weird Weekend 2016, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Paul Rudolph, Bob Calvert, Xtul, The Monkees, Judas Priest, The Doors, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, David Cassidy                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
 
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 an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small 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 the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kittens?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • A key theory of evolution has just been turned on ...
  • Well-wrapped feces allow lobsters to eat jellyfish...
  • Watch Out for Wasps: Insect Sting Causes Man's Str...
  • Sea Anemone Proteins Could Help Fix Damaged Hearin...
  • Culling 5,000 brumbies: 41 scientists back controv...


  • 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)