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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, March 08, 2018

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETURNS TO NORMAL

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

Things appear to be returning to normal. So normal, however, that there is nothing much to tell you, except for the fact that we received two Oriental weathetr loach yesterday from La Famille Phillipson. They are now in the sitting room tank, and are intriguing my Hong Kong paradise fish very much indeed. Oh it is so nice to be talking about interactions of the finny tribe rather than the bloody plumbing!

ciaou....

Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and spread the tidings of it far and wide:

Ep 88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpo0b0_MrU&t=396s
Ep 87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8BzaT3sCc&t=2s
Ep 86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAn24MkErs&t=67s
EP 85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E82xG502cA&t=21s
EP 84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rDGbLdYxc&t=3s
EP 83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lr_j2Ij8Q
EP 82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP_Pii7ZF8

And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

But for now, here is the news:

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/bbc-birth-of-british-music-handel.html
BBC - The Birth of British Music: Handel The Conqu...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-patrick-moraz.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Patrick Moraz - Out In...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/yes-in-news_8.html
YES IN THE NEWS
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_8.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/hawkwind-news_8.html
HAWKWIND NEWS

Gonzo Weekly #276
THE PUT UP YOUR DUKES ISSUE
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

We talk to Erik Norlander about The Dukes of the Orient, his new band with ex Asia singer John Payne, Doug goes to see Robert Plant, Neil looks at some of the more peculiar Pagan Psychedelia, and Alan checks out The Shape of Water, and Graham talks Hawkwind

Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands, Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo AND the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers who have gone for a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have probably got hangovers and have decided to have a little rest, 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:

Netflix, BoJack Horseman, John Lennon, #200Fish Project, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Quincy Jones, Tony Kaye, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Eddy Amoo, Harriet Fier, Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan, Rick Wakeman, Billion Dollar Babies, Tangerine Dream, Erik Norlander, John Payne, Dukes of the Orient, Robert Plant, The Shape of Water, Alan Dearling, Neil Arnold, Barbara, Jacula, Mort Garson, Antonius Rex, The Vampires Of Dartmoore, Three Monks, Kev Rowland, Taylor's Universe, Blackmore's Night, My Ticket Home, The Soul Exchange, Soul Drinker, Thaw, Then Comes Silence, This Will Destroy You, TNNE, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, CJ Stone, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Even Rock and Roll has Fairy Tales: The Flight of The Sherry Fairy, Sherry Carroll, Darkthrone Abba, Pink Floyd, Limp Bizkit, My Chemical Romance, Paul McCartney, Korn, Neil Nixon, Wild Man Fischer

And the last few issues are:

Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo275.html
Issue 274 (Steve Took)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo274.html
Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo273.html
Issue 272 (George Butler)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo272.html
Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo271.html
Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo270.html
Issue 269 (Narnia)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo269.html
Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo267-8.html
Issue 265-6 (The Who)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo265-6.html
Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo264.html
Issue 263 (The magic Band)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo263.html
Issue 262 (DikMik)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo262.html
Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo261.html
Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo260.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 58 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?