I’ve just come from a grants review session in which the panel discussed more applications from organizations with horrid acronyms than I can possibly recount here–groups like ARTISTS: ARTs In Schools To better Society. No, really. Such convoluted names always remind me of that passage from Metropolitan Life in which Fran Lebowitz ridicules the entire phenomenon with fictional organizations like HURTS: Hemophiliacs Usually aRe Terribly Sick.
The session wasn’t all bad, though. I got to re-read a big chunk of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, which I’m teaching on Thursday. If you haven’t read it, well, I don’t know what you’re waiting for, but hop to it!
As a little interesting lagniappe, the author of Angels, Tony Kushner, is from Louisiana’s bayou country (somewhere out near Grand Mamou, I think), though he now lives in NYC. Interesting mix of identities the man’s got going on: Louisianan, gay, Jewish, intellectual….
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