The MacArthur Foundation has awarded its foundation grants for 2008 to 25 amazingly smart and talented humans who make me wish I had paid more attention in school. Just imagine, 25 people given $500,000.00 over 5 years with no strings attached, and they didn't have to walk on hot coals or eat goat penis or otherwise degrade themselves to get it. They just have to keep doing what they obviously love to do and make the world a little better than it was. How cool is that. Even cooler is that one of the group is a theatrical lighting designer. Yeah home team!
I know you can't apply for one, but I'd love to see the look on the faces of the Foundation's committee when I walked up in bibbed overalls and a "Beer School" baseball cap asking "hows ah go 'bout gittin me one uh them there genius grants y'all handin' out." And that's why I'll never get the call. I should have cured a disease.
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