The 1991 April Fools issue of the school paper was filled with silliness, and a decent share of it was mine. This page, the back page with an utterly dumb survey question, was something of my design. Bear with me. This is a long story.

There is a girl named Katrina Foster who appears on the right side. She is an Australian who started in US schools not long before. Had some attitude adjustment. I was a TA in her English class in the last semester of my senior year. She was a sophomore. I sort of was interested in her, but she was kind of rough edged, earning her a nickname of Wombat. (A wombat is a pretty fierce animal from Australia.) The wombat joke irked her, so in true high school form, it was the basis for more humiliation.

On the paper, I was free to interview whoever I wanted for this dumb question, so I asked some friends to give me planted answers. Half the answers given name Australian animals that might replace the Easter Bunny. Wallabe, platypus duck, koala, tasmanian devil, a dingo. The rest are nonsense answers, more so than the Australian ones!

Okay... that is the newspaper page that was designed as a joke at her expense. Just wait. Notice that picture.

The Artist Presently Known As Ed