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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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Thursday, August 11, 2016

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



BigFoot Recordings / Ron Morehead 'The Sierra Sounds'
Ron Morehead, adventurer, author and Bigfoot expert, discussed how he witnessed, recorded, and had vocal interactions with a family of giants, ...

Alleged Bigfoot Video from Helicopter
This video shot on April 2, 2007 in Helo, Tennesee, from a helicopter is believed actually to be a man walking in a field 

100% Real Bigfoot Sighting
Cameron Seibert claims to have seen Bigfoot in Clarksburg, WV! The sighting took place on Saturday, May 15th, 2010.

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS VERY TIRED

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
I am a very lucky man to have such good friends who bustle around to help me in times of crisis.I don’t like to single anyone out, but on today of all days I would like to would particularly like to thank Andy Phillipson, Graham Inglis, Alan Dearling and Martin Eve.  We are living in an increasingly nasty and complicated world, and one of the side effects of it becoming more nasty and complicated is that - oh so often - we see people choosing (often because they have no choice  in the matter) to fight their own corners rather than pull together for the common good.
Next week’s Weird Weekend will go ahead as planned, and as always it will be testament to the hard work of a team of people who have chosen to buck the trend and pull together in a common cause. Whether or not there will ever be another is still up in the air, and will be something that I will not decide upon lightly, either way. But whatever happens, thank you my dear friends for the love and assistance you have so freely given.
Well, six white horses that you did promise
 Were fin’lly delivered down to the penitentiary
 But to live outside the law, you must be honest
 I know you always say that you agree
 But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?
Sláinte
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
And now for the news................
YES - Drama (The 2016 Steve Howe interview
Rick Wakeman-OGWT interview from 4/4/75
Billy Cobham Master Class Talking
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Al Stewart - Love Chr...
Gonzo Magazine #194
We interview the lovely Liz Lenten from Auburn, Doug goes to see Adele, John goes to Alaska to watch whales and goes to see the Crazy World of Arthur Brown in the meantime. Alan goes to Kozfest, Jeremy goes to see Blue Oyster Cult, Jon muses on unreleased Pink Floyd and reviews a book by Bill Drummond.  Truly this is a massively groovy magazine!
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:
Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, RAZ Band, Viv Stanshall, biG GRunt, Ringo Starr, U2, Elton John, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, AC/DC, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Elliot Teichberg (Elliott Tiber), Leslie Hulme (Ken Barrie), The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Adele, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Trolleymen, Tea Project, Fijian, Mike Howlett, Cary Grace, Phaselock, Sendelica, Hawklords, Sacred Geometry Band, Gong, John Brodie-Good, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Jeremy Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, Spectrum, It Flew Away, Capt. Matchbox & Langford Lever, Jack White, The Grateful Dead, Neil Nixon, Dame Barbara Cartland
                                                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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 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?

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.








THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN EMULATES THE OOZELUM BIRD

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
It never rains but it pours. Today I have been landed with a bunch of unexpected admin expenses for the Weird Weekend. Another reason why this is going to be the last one, at least in the current venue and format, because I truly dpon't want to be strangled by beaurocracy. I always said that I would do ten and this one will be the seventeenth, but I will still be disappointed if this actually is the end. Ticket sales have actually picked up despite the financial insecurity that so many people are feeling at the moment which is good news. This year's Weird Weekend is just over a week away and will be featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would still make me very happy, however, if I could sell some more tickets..
find out all about the Weird Weekend
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
And now for the news................
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Sunshine Day - OSIBISA...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
GREGG BROWN REVIEW
Merrell Fankhauser "The Lost Desert Tapes"
Cropredy Blog 2015: Ric Sanders and Chris Leslie (...
Gonzo Magazine #194
We interview the lovely Liz Lenten from Auburn, Doug goes to see Adele, John goes to Alaska to watch whales and goes to see the Crazy World of Arthur Brown in the meantime. Alan goes to Kozfest, Jeremy goes to see Blue Oyster Cult, Jon muses on unreleased Pink Floyd and reviews a book by Bill Drummond.  Truly this is a massively groovy magazine!
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:
Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, RAZ Band, Viv Stanshall, biG GRunt, Ringo Starr, U2, Elton John, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, AC/DC, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Elliot Teichberg (Elliott Tiber), Leslie Hulme (Ken Barrie), The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Adele, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Trolleymen, Tea Project, Fijian, Mike Howlett, Cary Grace, Phaselock, Sendelica, Hawklords, Sacred Geometry Band, Gong, John Brodie-Good, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Jeremy Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, Spectrum, It Flew Away, Capt. Matchbox & Langford Lever, Jack White, The Grateful Dead, Neil Nixon, Dame Barbara Cartland
                                                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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 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/Thursday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1877 - The two moons of Mars were discovered by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer. He named them Phobos and Deimos. 
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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)