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# Fool’s paradise
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/fools-paradise-editor/
- Published: 2004-04-21T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:14:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Elissa Royal Santa Monica Lights, camera, conflict Editor:*

On April 15 at 4:33 p.m. (a personal best), I mailed my taxes at the Santa Monica Post Office. Like many folks, I had spent the previous week drowning in state and federal forms, schedules and worksheets. I had allowed myself only two breaks — one to kick myself for waiting until the last minute, and the other to beat myself severely about the head and shoulders for not hiring an accountant.

Come April 16, I needed a good laugh. Hell, I’d earned a good laugh. So I logged on to www.smdp.com/archives/040104.pdf knowing that your April 1 issue would still crack me up.

It was so therapeutic that I also checked out last year’s April 1 issue to see if it was as good. Sadly, it wasn’t, although it did have a few gems like “Library must sell books to fund new, improved facility” and “Homeless take part in bubble bath program.”

Bottom line: Thanks for helping return me to sanity.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 21, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042104.pdf?ref=smdp.com)