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The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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I am not having a good day today. Archie got over excited and nipped the postman, and I had to use all my reserves of tact to avoid an unpleasant scene. At least I bloody well hope I have avoided one! (Touch Wood) I also got an irate e-mail from someone complaining that a photo of me from 1999 which happens to be in my Facebook pictures folder shows me with a cigarette in my mouth. What sort of an example am I giving to young people? he asks. By smoking in public (even fifteen years after the fact) I am apparently bringing the CFZ into disrepute. In one way the instant communication afforded by things like Facebook is a good thing; it brings the concept of the Global Village which idealistic young hippies like me espoused forty years ago one step nearer. But on another level it is a terrible thing, because its very immediacy lulls people into a false sense of feeling that people who are basically strangers, or vague acquaintances at best, are close friends.

Every week in my capacity of ringmaster of the CFZ circus I get at least one complaint from somebody within the CFZ family, concerned about the Facebook activities of another member or members. This is usually accompanied by the complainer suggesting that the activity in question is bringing the CFZ into disrepute. The complaints are usually about political or religious statements, or postings with sexual content. What people don't seem to understand is that the CFZ is a loose confederation of people interested in cryptozoology and its allied disciplines, animal welfare, animal rescue and the broad concept of encouraging young people to be interested in Natural History. It is a broad church, and members/affiliates come from a wide range of social, ethnic, political and religious backgrounds. If someone makes a post about their paganism, Christian fundamentalism or anything else, or if they post pictures of simpering dolly birds in miniscule bikinis it is their own business. It is nothing to do with the CFZ or me personally, and even if I wanted to I couldn't do anything about it.

Please stop complaining to me about these things. All it does is upset me, and give me yet more stress that I would so much rather do without. I am not going to kick someone out of the CFZ for boasting about their sexual conquests, having some soft porn actress on their friends list, making anti or pro republican/conservative party statements or being anti or pro some religion or other, so please stop asking. If you don't like what other people say on Facebook, just block them. That is what I do!

Enough bellyaching for today. On with the blogs.

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mick Farren & Andy Colquhoun
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/gonzo-track-of-day-mick-farren-andy.html

INTERVIEW: Frank Zappa’s ‘Roxy & Elsewhere’ lives on
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/interview-frank-zappas-roxy-elsewhere.html

Ex-Wife and Killer of Mountain Bassist Felix Pappalardi dies
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/ex-wife-and-killer-of-mountain-bassist.html

Deep Cuts: The Byrds’ Gene Clark
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/deep-cuts-byrds-gene-clarks-strength-of.html

I Could Cry/Take a Back Step (Huw Lloyd-Langton tribute)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-could-crytake-back-step-huw-lloyd.html

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*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 small Indian frog. 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 orange cat?