April Fool’s Day is called Poisson d’Avril or “April Fish”—a reference to gullible fish that are easy to catch in spring, much like the unsuspecting prank victims of April 1. Meanwhile, in England, April 1 was once called “Fooles Holy Day.” A disputed association between the first of April and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1392). In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, a vain cock, Chauntecleer, is tricked by a fox “Since March began, full thirty days and two, the 32nd day from 1 March, which is April 1.” Nobody has a definite idea of the origins and it is celebrated all over Europe and parts of the Middle East.
Personally, I hate practical jokes, so April Fools Day is something I don’t participate in. The world is foolish enough, that every fucking day is April Fool’s Day for the sheeple who still believe everything the government and the TV tells them. It’s ongoing. The judge who sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in jail could have waited until today to do it. It certainly fits the bill for what would be a perfect April Fool’s practical joke. As I said before, every day qualifies now, so the point is moot.
The Byrds – Crosby, far left (he certainly was)
Let’s not talk about it any more. Last night I watched a 2018 documentary about David Crosby who died in 2023 at the age of 81. He looked terrible for the last 30 years of his life, a legacy of a lot of drug use. It’s hard to imagine he got to 81, but he did. His voice was remarkably intact, too. If you closed your eyes and heard him sing, you’d think it was a much younger man. He was an enigma for sure. As they were driving around LA and his old stomping grounds filming the doco, David said he never really liked Jim Morrison, I think he said “he was dork” , or “obnoxious” , probably both. He didn’t like a lot of people.
Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse
Crosby also bemoaned the fact that he didn’t have any friends. All his former band mates, “hate his guts”, for one reason or another. I know the feeling. Unlike Cosby, I have never been a raging druggie, but I probably have been an asshole. It’s disappointing but there isn’t much I can do about it. I may as well be on Mars at this point.
A low point was in 2011 when two rich cats decided to occupy Wall Street and bite the hand that fed them
There are some lol moments in the Wikipedia article about Croz. This is one of them. “Crosby strongly criticized the presidency of Donald Trump, declaring him to be “a dangerous guy who’s got a big ego”. For the 2020 presidential election, he said in an interview that Mayor Pete Buttigieg was his favorite candidate for president and was smarter than all the others combined; however, he eventually voted for Bernie Sanders. There you see, David Crosby was not only a great musician but he was also a comedian.
The law finally catches up with Dave in 1982. He spent nine months in a Texas state prison after being convicted of several drugs and weapons offenses in 1985.
Anyhoo… the Cros is gone. He didn’t want to die, and said it scared him. Maybe because he had done some bad things, hurt a lot of women and crossed lines “that you wouldn’t even think of doing”. He said he wanted a lot more time to do more stuff. If he had only thought about that when he was on smack and crack for all those years. Phil Collins bought him a liver transplant in 1994. He would have liked to have been alive right now that they have just released the JFK assassination files.
He publicly questioned the report of the Warren Commission covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy onstage during the Byrds’s appearance at the Monterey Festival in 1967, to the anger of his bandmates. In documentary he says to the crowd that he doesn’t believe any of it, and that there was more than one shooter. Crosby may well be proven correct.