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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, October 31, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HITS THE GROUND ...........UM HOBBLING

The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
 
Golly! What a strange life we lead. Well, I suppose it is Samhain, so what does one expect? Today's strangeness begins with a not very convincing photograph from Alaska reporting to be that of a river monster. http://tinyurl.com/jos55rf So, of course, those jolly nice fellows of Her Majesty's Press have been contacting me in droves for comments. Basically this is what I wrote in return:
 
“That video from Alaska looks very much like this video from Iceland a couple of years ago: http://tinyurl.com/zevqqlj
 
That turned out to me an inanimate construct of ice in flowing water and I strongly suggest that this is something similar. Although there are reports of mysterious aquatic creatures from various parts or North America, including Alaska, I am not aware of any from that particular river.
 
Sorry about that.”
 
On top of that, I may or may not be on ITV tonight talking about all sorts of thugs that go bump in the night, and we are also having a quiet Samhain soirĂ©e this evening, at which a splendid time will be guaranteed for all. Chloe and I have been busy little beavers this afternoon putting together tomorrow's issue of the CFZ newsletter, and pootling about with the Pink Fairies Website. If you are interested it only costs £12 a year and there is plenty of time for you to subscribe using the link at the top of the page on the CFZ website. http://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/
 
Hopefully life will return to normality once the festivities are over, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
 
And now for the news................
 
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
David Peel on the Upper East Side 2 16 1991
HAWKWIND INTERVIEW (2016)
Pink Fairies - Do It!
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Deviants - I'm Com...
 
Gonzo Magazine #206
 
This week we see the mighty Raz Band live with Joey Molland, Doug goes to see Brian Wilson, John travels across the Atlantic to see Steely Dan. Alan muses on Justin Johnson, and The Flame Trees, Jon reads about Tony Visconti and eulogises on Ed Harcourt. And there is a chance to win a pair of  tickets to next year’s UK shows by Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman. Gee willikins!
 
Good ‘ere innit?
 
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. 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:
Ed Harcourt, John Cale, Prince, Sinead O'Connor, John Lydon, Phil Collins, Emily Eavis, Yoko Ono, Moby, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robert Thomas Velline (Bobby Vee), Peter Jozzeppi "Pete" Burns, James "Jimmy" Perry, Rick Wakeman, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Archie Fisher & Barbara Dickson, Binky Womack, Arthur Brown, Nils Lofgren, Jackie Lee, ARW, The Raz Band, Brian Wilson, Alan Dearling, Flame Tree, John Brodie-Good, Rickie Lee Jones, Steely Dan, Justin Johnson, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Hawklords, Xtul, Tony Visconti, Justin Bieber, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Martin Springett, The Gardening Club, Neil Nixon,  Gene Clark
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 205 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 204 (Gas Tank)
Issue 203 (The Gardening Club)
Issue 202 (Gong)
Issue 201 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 200 (Deep Purple)
Issue 199 (Yes)
Issue 198 (Steve Ignorant)
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?

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:




Club Hub: Local Bigfoot research project studies legendary creature ... the sighting of a mysterious creature all fuel the legend of Bigfoot in this area.

Washington State Bigfoot Encounter From The 1960's
Youtube bigfoot enthusiast Bob Gymlan shares a bigfoot encounter story coming from Washing state in the 1960's. Check it out: ...

Bigfoot Sightings Near Sasquatch Canyon
The Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization head into basecamp, and along the way relate some stories of bigfoot sightings that have occurred in ...

Bighorn and Bigfoot on the Blackfoot Part 3
Bighorn and Bigfoot on the Blackfoot Part 3. “Duke has a visitor to camp at night and is left a sign of it's presence. The next day, on a gravel bar about ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards. Her son, Rajiv, was sworn in as prime minister. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • New nematode is hermaphrodite: One of the smallest...
  • 'Robomussels' used to monitor climate change
  • How animals sense the rate of temperature change
  • Peru investigates death of 10,000 Titicaca water f...
  • New bee arrives for first time in the UK
  • Gorilla recaptured after escape at London zoo


  • 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.)