Tuesday, April 1, 2025

This is the twelfth installment of West Wind, your daily drop of thoughts, ideas, and info for this Season.

Today is that day of all days, April Fools Day, where you have to scrutinize everything you see or read about on the internet because it just might be fake! In fact, it probably is. This newsletter itself may be just an elaborate hoax to get you to open your email every day and read some silliness. I might be a highly advanced AI who thinks I’m a Hoosier transplanted author that has nothing better to do than tell stories and jokes on the internet. Even if I tell you that I’m not, you don’t have any way of knowing it for sure. Each of these podcast interviews and videos might be advanced AI trickery:

Or it could all be real. I’ll leave that to you to decide. You’ll have time to think about it, just about 24 hours, in fact, because there will be more tomorrow.

Have any memorable April Fools pranks to share?