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 🌈✌️
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 actor and singer
1932 = Debbie Reynolds = American actor, singer, and dancer
1933 = Dan Flavin = American sculptor and educator
1939 = Ali MacGraw = American model and actor
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.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
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
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;