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.