April fools…..

Seth’s Blog: Outrageous!:

This is going to be the biggest April Fool’s day in memory. There will be political fools and satirical fools and just plain goofy fools. I figured I could get a lot of mileage out of inventing the “blog tax” fool, and it would be a good story to tell my grandchildren. But then I realized that if it worked, I’d get all this incredibly angry mail and trackbacks and I’d have to deal with it.

So, alas, no Fools for me. Good luck tomorrow. Be careful out there.

I used to have a lot of fun with April Fools.

over the years, I’ve pretty much stopped it. partly because to do it well, it takes time and energy I haven’t had, but partly, well, partly because….

Seth nails it:

This is going to be the biggest April Fool’s day in memory. There will be political fools and satirical fools and just plain goofy fools. I figured I could get a lot of mileage out of inventing the “blog tax” fool, and it would be a good story to tell my grandchildren. But then I realized that if it worked, I’d get all this incredibly angry mail and trackbacks and I’d have to deal with it.

Partly because to do April fools right, the audience needs a sense of humor. And there are too many of you out there now who don’t, and it’s hard to justify doing it for those that do while having to put up with those that don’t…

So happy april fools, all. Read the golden oldies…

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