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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, March 09, 2016

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



The Debate Continues Over The Mysterious Case Of The Minnesota Iceman
Today's Crypto Blast video is about the infamous Minnesota Iceman and the Cryptozoologist that investigated it. Was it real? Was it a hoax perpetrated ...

Bigfoot Seen On Dark Country Road In Illinois
One of the most common places people see bigfoot is along rural roadways at night. In 2012, a man from Illinois was driving along a dark country road ...

Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Several Bigfoot enthusiasts, after attending the International Conference on ... They hoped to find more evidence of Bigfoot's existence here — more ...

MESSAGE FROM RICHARD IN TASMANIA

"In Tasmania, have visited some remote areas. The places we visited in 2014 have been burned out by forest fires.

We are now in Central Tasmania. Have spoken to the father of a witness who saw the Tasmanian wolf last year. A good, long, close up sighting.

Have met the legendary Thylacine research Col Bailey. Nothing on game cams yet. Mike and I have identified what might be a area of extreme interest for the next trip but its remoteness would make it very hard to get to."

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DISLIKES PEOPLE WHO SCREW HIM AROUND

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

As you may have gathered, yesterday was not the most enjoyable of days thanks to the duplicity of a man with whom I have had the misfortune of having to deal. However, enough of that. I prefer to concentrate on the more positive aspects of my life. As you will be aware Richard Freeman and Mike Williams are presently hunting for thylacines in the wilds of Tasmania. Today he wrote to me:

"In Tasmania, have visited some remote areas. The places we visited in 2014 have been burned out by forest fires. We are now in Central Tasmania. Have spoken to the father of a witness who saw the Tasmanian wolf last year. A good, long, close up sighting. Have met the legendary Thylacine research Col Bailey. Nothing on game cams yet. Mike and I have identified what might be a area of extreme interest for the next trip but its remoteness would make it very hard to get to."

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Lonesome LA. Cowboy - ...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-lonesome-la.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_9.html
Guitar hero Steve Hackett in candid conversation f...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/guitar-hero-steve-hackett-in-candid.html
British blues great John Mayall still shepherding ...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/british-blues-great-john-mayall-still.html
FRANK ZAPPA: Review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/frank-zappa-review.html

Gonzo Magazine #172
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

4th Eden, Stargrace, American Football, Chaos Chaos, Smoosh, David Crosby, Matt Miller, aka Matisyahu, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

4th Eden and Stargrace are on the front cover, together with an interview with 4th Eden inside. Doug writes about American Football, Richard writes about Matt Miller, aka Matisyahu, while Jon gets all concerned about Chaos Chaos, and grumpy about Words with Friends. We review a book by David Crosby. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Maloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside 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:
Smoosh, Chaos Chaos, Bob Dylan, David Lee Roth, Izzy Stradlin, Elton John, Ginger Baker, Rolling Stones, Rick Wakeman, David Bowie, Pedal Giant Animals, Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Keith Leven, Lennie Baker, Frank Kelly, Gordon Ranney, James Atkins, Gregg Kofi Brown, Billy Cobham, Kevin Ayres featuring Ollie Halsall, Country Queens, Robert Calvert, Greg Harris, The Kentucky Colonels, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Michael Livesley and Brainwashing House feat Rick Wakeman, Neil Innes and Susie Honeyman, Martin Eve, 4th Eden, Marianne Holland, American Football, John Keeling, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Richard Stellar, Matt Miller (Matisyahu), Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Tim Blake, xtul, David Crosby, John Lennon, Joy Division, The Beatles, Sandy Shaw, Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Michael Jackson, Neil Nixon, David Bowie, Radogost

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.html
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo165.html
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo164.html
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo163.html
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
http://www.flipsnack.com/…/gonzo-161-21-yer-festive-double-…
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo160.html
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo152.html

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:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/


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 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 1617 - The Treaty of Stolbovo ended the occupation of Northern Russia by Swedish troops. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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  • 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)