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On the precipice of birthday, great words from Alabama Whitman Worley still echo: You’re so cool, You’re so Cool, You’re so Cool. On the near-eve of my own birthday, I’m watching the movie I once loved more than Graduate School and even the graduate herself. Highly recommend the director’s cut and alternate ending, especially if it’s been a while.
l had to come all the way from the highways and byways of Tallahassee, Florida to Motor City, Detroit to find my true love. lf you gave me a million years to ponder, l would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would go together. And to this day, the events that followed all seem like a distant dream. But the dream was real and was to change our lives forever. l kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he’d say: “That’s the way it goes. But don’t forget, it goes the other way too.” That’s the way romance is. Usually that’s the way it goes. But every once in a while, it goes the other way too.
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Amid the chaos of that day when all l could hear was the thunder of gunshots and all l could smell was the violence in the air, l look back and am amazed that my thoughts were so clear and true. That three words went through my mind endlessly. Repeating themselves like a broken record. You’re so cool. You’re so cool. You’re so cool. And sometimes Clarence asks me what would l have done if he had died. lf that bullet had been two inches more to the left. To this, l always smile. As if l’m not going to satisfy him with a response. But l always do. l tell him of how l would want to die. But that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn. And that things would be much like they are now. Perhaps. Except maybe l wouldn’t have named our son… Elvis.
SXSW 2011, photo courtesy @SFembassy
It’s April first, the day when everyone decides to be a comedian, takes the stage and bombs. It’s not even April here on the west coast and my twitter feed has filled with the same exact joke over and over: fake news in the form of blog posts.
April Fool’s day separates the weak from the creative.
If you want to entertain someone who isn’t easily shocked on a day built for humor, the least creative method is publishing fake news. Unless you’re The Onion, and then maybe you should publish real news on April 1st. But you are not a writer at The Onion. And between Weekly World News and Bravo’s Real Housewives, your fake news is last year’s yawn. The second worst thing you can do is write fake news that doesn’t make sense, and publish it on your blog. So basically the lamest joke to tell on April Fool’s Day is fake news. It’s ok if you did that already, everybody bombs on stage sometime.
Luckily, there may be solutions for you.
Want to laugh and have the world laugh with you on April Fool’s Day? Get creative, and everyone will have a good time. Here are five general ideas for celebrating April 1st on the interwebs; if developed, these kinds of implementations may have a better effect than that fake newsy blog post you are about to publish right next to everyone else’s fake news.
- Do you run a design company? Flip your website upside down for the day
- Do you run a music company? Rickroll (don’t kill me) (it doesn’t have to be rick for cryin’ out loud) (rebecca black?)
- Are you the pillar of fashion? wear a pair of sebagos and declare them “in”
- Are you a blogger? redirect your site to something bizarre for the day, or put up a landing page with a cat video. Everybody loves cat videos. Or write a real post about a subject that you absolutely cannot stand and try to convince your readers that you love it. I know that’s boring, but it sure beats fake news.
- do you have a storefront and a video camera? switch the push/pull signs on the door and film people getting confused all day. blur their faces, put it online.
If you see anything good out there today, please share it. I want to laugh today, I really do.
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