March Hares frolicking
jump up run round showing off
for sexy ladies.

Are they mad? sex-crazed
they act most erratically
those silly March Hares.

Now I’ve got the idea of gangnam-style rabbits in my head… going to sleep now.

Well, I was looking into this image, posted on Sandy’s blog post about bunnies:

which I found pretty interesting and learned more about it here.

The wikipedia article compared it to triskelion and other symbols and then said:

Its origins and original significance are uncertain, as are the reasons why it appears in such diverse locations.[1] That the image’s meaning changes depending upon the context and the viewer could be characterized as being analogous to pareidolia;[2] its widespread appeal may be characterized as being a meme. (see more about this here)

Interesting: meme-like. Read it again. What the heck is pareidolia? (and that little image below is my flickr account avatar.

I was too lazy to go downstairs and get a larger version and I know I have other similar images with different “emotions” but it’s enough. I thought it was funny because the no-image default avatar for flickr is this:

And then, in the quote box appeared:

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. – John Steinbeck

March Hares, anyone?

(something from nothing)
Look, it’s the man in the moon!
pareidolia.

I see a face there
well, I see them everywhere:
pareidolia.

April is very close at hand which brings two things to the world. Like Brigadoon, they appear on a regular basis and then, like the mists, they vanish again.

And the best part of Camp is that you can choose to write in any genre, even poetry or that re-write (ahem) that you’ve been meaning to get to (ahem, ahem, cough, cough) and you can set your own goal for the month, large or small amounts of words. How cool is that?

I can pretty much assure you that there will be late night sessions, campfires, some smuggled in beverages and assorted snacks, some homesick letters and phone calls and a whole lot of fun going on. And if April is too crazy a month for you, they’ll set up the tents again in July. More black flies, but warmer…

If you want to know about the crazy thinking that makes people write anything for a month, here’s the esteemed ring-leader of NaPoWriMo to speak on the topic at the invitation of the NaNoWriMo folks.