A different kind of Fool...

I hate the entire tradition of April Fool's. Always have, and have yet to see anything that would change my mind about it.

March was not a happy month for many people. In fact, 2007 to-date has seemed determined to be the year of bad emotional shit.

So I'm suggesting something different for today. Be a different kind of fool -- a springtime fool. A Tarot Fool. Start the journey fresh, with a leap off the cliff not of trickery, but hope. Do something positive, something that brings a smile. For yourself, for someone else. Make it small, or huge, planned or impulsive.

But do it quietly, without fanfare, for the simple act of bringing joy.

And spread the word.


EtA: and for the Anonymous troll who asked, no this isn't a joke.

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So yes, I am going to San Diego ComicCon. However, the very next weekend is NASFiC (the Worldcon substitute for those of us who can't justify going to Japan). So this raises the question of how best to spend my time and money. Since I'm already on the West Coast, should I make use of it? Or should I attend NASFiC? And no, I can't do both. Not unless I suddenly stumble upon some deep-pocketed sponsors...


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In other news, we appear to have great horned owls in the neighborhood. Or so my pre-dawn wake-up calls inform me. Boomer is fascinated. Pandora, being a wise cat despite her name, shows no inclination to investigate.

I've had to break the news to Boomerang that any bird that can carry off a turkey isn't going to hesitate at even a very large cat. Sorry, dude, you're not going outside.

it's not just our government....

TOKYO, March 31 — In another sign that Japan is pressing ahead in revising its history of World War II, new high school textbooks will no longer acknowledge that the Imperial Army was responsible for a major atrocity in Okinawa, the government announced late Friday.

The Ministry of Education ordered publishers to delete passages stating that the Imperial Army ordered civilians to commit mass suicide during the Battle of Okinawa, as the island was about to fall to American troops in the final months of the war.

The decision was announced as part of the ministry’s annual screening of textbooks used in all public schools. The ministry also ordered changes to other delicate issues to dovetail with government assertions, though the screening is supposed to be free of political interference.

“I believe the screening system has been followed appropriately,” said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has long campaigned to soften the treatment in textbooks of Japan’s wartime conduct.

The decision on the Battle of Okinawa, which came as a surprise because the ministry had never objected to the description in the past, followed recent denials by Mr. Abe that the military had coerced women into sexual slavery during the war.

The results of the annual textbook screening are closely watched in China, South Korea and other Asian countries. So the fresh denial of the military’s responsibility in the Battle of Okinawa and in sexual slavery — long accepted as historical facts — is likely to deepen suspicions in Asia that Tokyo is trying to whitewash its militarist past even as it tries to raise the profile of its current forces.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/world/asia/01japan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin



Clio is tapping her foot and getting pissy, she is.

fork. stick. done.

on January 12th, I wrote:

If I keep this up, I'll reach draft by April (contract due date is 1 April).


Down Into Darkness: A Retrievers Novel

Yay me.


Now I get to take a few days off before I start on the editorial revisions (minor and reasonably entertaining) to THE NIGHT SERPENT. Catch ya later...