No Fooling...It's April

Tick Tock, The Clock Won't Stop

Note: I published this post before I was finished writing it.
So…I guess April has already made a fool of me.
Oh. Well. Oops. Mistakes happen. Sorry about it! :-)

April always reminds me that time marches on, no matter if we're ready for it or not.

The year is no longer "just getting started." Q1 is over and Q2 has begun!

Deadlines loom, projects evolve (or stall), and that clock? It just keeps ticking.

As for mistakes, like time, they are part of the process.
We can either stress over them or embrace the chaos and keep on moving.

So, here's to April—and its longer days, unexpected mishaps, and hopefully, a little bit of magic along the way.

Don’t forget to have some fun!
Clint 🌈✌️

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

• David Hockney On His Continued Passion For Work Ahead of His Biggest Show In 25 Years: ‘I Will Never Stop Painting’ (Independent)

• RuPaul Announces 2028 Presidential Bid: ‘Trump Done Already Done Had Herses’ (PinkNews)

• Why Would a Musician Join OnlyFans? Because Making A Living Is Only Getting Harder (NPR)

ON THIS DAY = APRIL 1

BIRTHDAYS

• 1852 = Edwin Austin Abbey = American painter and illustrator

• 1883 = Lon Chaney = American actor and filmmaker

• 1908 = Abraham Maslow = American psychologist and academic

• 1910 = Harry Carney = American saxophonist and clarinet player

• 1911 = Augusta Braxton Baker = American librarian

• 1917 = Sydney Newman = Canadian screenwriter and Doctor Who co-creator

• 1920 = Toshiro Mifune = Japanese actor and producer

• 1929 = Jane Powell = American actor, singer, and dancer

• 1929 = Jonathan Haze = American actor and filmmaker

• 1929 = Payut Ngaokrachang = Thai animator and director

• 1930 = Grace Lee Whitney = American actress and singer

• 1932 = Debbie Reynolds = American actor, singer, and dancer

• 1933 = Dan Flavin = American sculptor and educator

• 1939 = Ali MacGraw = American model and actress

• 1949 = Gil Scott-Heron = American singer-songwriter and author

• 1953 = Barry Sonnenfeld = American filmmaker

• 1961 = Susan Boyle = Scottish singer

• 1965 = Jane Adams = American actor

• 1970 = Brad Meltzer = American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1972 = Jesse Tobias = American guitarist and songwriter

• 1973 = Rachel Maddow = American journalist and author 🌈

• 1980 = Bijou Phillips = American actor and model

• 1982 = Taran Killam = American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer

• 1983 = Matt Lanter = American actor and model

EVENTS

• 1896 = The first issue of Der Eigene, an openly homosexual journal, is published. It is published from 1896 to 1932 by Adolf Brand in Berlin.

• 1748 = The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered by Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre.

• 1930 = The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich in her breakthrough role, is released in Germany.

• 1960 = The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.

• 1963 = General Hospital premieres on ABC.

• 1975 = Mandate, an adult openly gay magazine, makes its debut.

• 1976 = Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

• 1979 = The Village People ‘s song “In The Navy” begins a thirteen-week run on the nation’s Top 40. The US Navy briefly considers using the song as a recruitment theme until the full implications of the lyrics are explained.

• 1985 = The Hetrick-Martin Institute opens the Harvey Milk High School for 20 openly lesbian and gay teenagers in the basement of a Greenwich Village, NY, church. The city-funded high school provides a place of refuge for the students, many of whom have dropped out of other schools to escape repeated abuse and harassment.

• 2001 = Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was legalized, making it the first country to do so.

• 2004 = Google launches Gmail.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• April Fools' Day

• Edible Book Day

• Fossil Fools Day

PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY

“One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.”
Dan Flavin

NEW + FEATURED

• COLLIDE PRESS Live #1 (Replay)

• Easy Does It #3 (NSFW)

• Substack = NSFW + Pioneers + Pride + SFW

LINKS
Bluesky + Ko-Fi + Linktree + YouTube

SHOP
Art Prints + Merch + Pride
On Amazon + On Threadless