March Fool's Day

When it came out, the movie Ground Hog day was incredibly clever and rewatching remains fun, but if I saw if tonight for the first time, I would be less impressed. Just like Wag The Dog, starring Dustin Hoffman, a brilliant movie with (what was at the time) an innovative concept. Today they are about as shocking as The Bachelorette. Remember Allan Funt and Candid Camera? At the time, these were so creatively out-of-the-box, it made my mind wobble.

This reverie leads me to tomorrow, to April Fool’s Day AND being tricked. Well, well, well, no longer a once a year oopsie. Now, every day is April Fool’s Day, and I am constantly experiencing (what used to be) outrageous, imaginary events play out in my REAL LIFE. If I was with friends drinking my favorite cheap red wine, and someone proposed that a President, shortly after receiving bodies of dead US military personnel, would make extra spending money by hawking copies of the hat he wore on his website, I would have been awed by my friends' wild imaginations. If someone had told me that an elected official - strike that - any grown man would introduce his son's former fiance by saying, "I call her Kimber -LAY", I would have been speechless. Small digression here - the closest I come to that is a friend's wedding where her brother's toast referred to "all her lovers seem to be named Michael". Memorable.

Anyway, I hope someone is keeping track and puts it all together in an “Outtakes of Our World” documentary. This puts Christopher Guest and his mockumentaries out to pasture.

I wanted to write some clever April Fool’s post, scare my millions of subscribers for a brief moment, and then we all have a good giggle, BUT these days, it feels cruel to tease people, even for a moment. So instead, I wish you all a Happy Beginning of Spring (once you East Coasters dig out of the snow and you AZ folks recover from sun stroke) and I’m sharing a photo of my seedlings. I nurture them under an old Light Therapy Lamp I've had since the nineties. The idea used to be that the bright UV filtered light would stimulate the brain and provide mood elevation. I'd need a crane to elevate my mood these days.

Can you identify the baby lettuce, Swiss chard, cucumber and tomatoes? At the moment, it's my drop in the sanity bucket - that and beating my cousin at Crossplay.

If you are in the Midwest, Linda is being interviewed about the book, Not The Trip We Planned at Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL. on May 3 at 2:00. COME.