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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, December 09, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS IMPATIENT

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
 
As I believe I mentioned the other day, I have recently become mildly obsessed with the videos on the YouTube channel for the Alternate History Hub. I have been a fan of the concept of alternate history for many years, first discovering it through one of the ‘juvenile’ novels of my favourite author – Robert Heinlein. the idea that events on a quantum level can change the entire course of human history is both a useful plot device in speculative fiction and an interesting philosophical idea.
 
I have been working my way through these videos like a dose of salts, and – even this morning, while Jessica was switching on her computer – I watched a speculative video which wondered what the world would have been like if the Russian revolution had not happened.
 
I do not agree in all of their extrapolations, but I find the whole thing fascinating in the extreme, and wholeheartedly suggest that you check it out.
 
 
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Beach Boys - Never Lea...
Later this week, Dweezil Zappa will release Via Za...
Chris Squire Tribute sung by The Müsïka Family [On...
Auburn review2
 
Gonzo Weekly #159
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, Counting Crows, Tommy James, Adele, Änglagård, David Bowie, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Roy Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#159) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Jon Anderson and Matt Malley on the cover and interviews with them both inside. Jon muses on David Bowie, we interview Tommy James, Doug talks about Änglagård and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. John talks about Adele and Stereaming, 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, and Tim and Jaki are back with a new show. 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:
 
David Bowie, Sinead O'Connor, Tom Jones, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder, Steve Lamacq, Joy Division, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, Stella McCartney, Keith Levene, Ringo Starr, Steve Ignorant, Strange Harvest, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jaki Windmill, Tim Rundall, Scott Richard Weiland, Wayne Bickerman, Alex Cooley, Carols Jesus "Buddy" Moreno, Ronald David "Ronnie" Bright, Anthony Valentine, Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Michael Jackson, Dee Palmer, Freddie King, The Selecter, Ducks De Luxe, Alexis Corner, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Anglagard, Tommy James, John Brodie-Good, Adele, Roy Weard, A.J. Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr. Biffo, Hawkwind, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, The Monkees, The Bee Gees, Yes, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Alice Cooper, Rick Wakeman, Matt Malley, Neil Nixon, Black Sweden, Gwydion
 
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
 
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
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.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 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?

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.



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: Africa's Best Kept Secret: An Ultra-Luxur...
  • ARTICLE: Big Cat Fossils: Early Ancestors Might Ha...
  • NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)




    A view of the Loch Ness Monster, near Inverness, Scotland, April 19, 1934. The photograph, one of two pictures known as the 'surgeon's photographs,' ...

    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Whoa, Take A Look At Dr. Meldrum's Bigfoot Skeleton!
    Dr. Jeff Meldrum stands next to the 3D printed bigfoot skeleton that was a side project for the Bigfoot Captured television special. Who knew 3D ...


    Bigfooter Shows How They Set Up Their Sasquatch Gifting Area
    Bigfooters everywhere are catching the holiday spirit! Ok, a lot of bigfooters leave gifts for bigfoot. It's not just because it's Christmas time. But hey, if ...

    Frightened Hunter Videos Treepeeker Bigfoot (Video)
    Ok, so this isn't the Patterson film, but it's still pretty interesting. Nv Tv posted the following video taken by a hunter of a possible bigfoot hiding and ...

    The Hunt For Bigfoot In Oklahoma
    So, News 9 went along on a Bigfoot exhibition here in Oklahoma to see for ourselves. Under the tall trees of southeast Oklahoma, the slightest shake ...

    Bigfoot is seen roaming around New Jersey in 1981
    Bigfoot is seen roaming around New Jersey in 1981 (Originally published by the Daily News on June 30, 1981.This story was written by Bruce ...

    Bigfoot believers share Northstate sightings
    Bigfoot believers share Northstate sightings. The production crew from the show "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet stopped by the Old City Hall in ...

    Ohio Bigfoot Hunters Find Strange Tree Damage In Salt Fork State Park
    Tim Stover and company continue their recent expedition in the bigfoot hotbed of Salt Fork State Park in Ohio. In this video of their 2nd day at it, they ...

    Rare Interview Footage Of The Late Bigfoot Enthusiast Ray Crowe
    A real interview. Ray Crowe: a Bigfoot Community organizer and Pioneer in the Pacific Northwest. Founder of the Western Bigfoot Society (1991).

    A man imitates the Sasquatch HOWL that changed his life
    A man named Ronnie encountered a HOWL in northern California that rocked his world. A man imitates a Bigfoot scream. Sasquatch scream.

    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1783 - The first executions at Newgate Prison took place. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Is the super rat on the rise?
  • Bristol Zoo's incredibly cute baby pygmy hippo has...
  • Newly-discovered snake species has pitch black eye...
  • Are these weird creatures the giraffe’s long-lost ...

  • Japan Built These Adorable Tunnels to Help Turtles...


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