Dude, where'd you park my anachronistic metaphor?
We were reading the umpteen-gazillionth article on Poetry Magazine's $100 million bequest (call it a literary obsession), when we noticed this:
IN November 2002, news of a $100 million grant from the pharmaceutical company heiress Ruth Lilly to the Modern Poetry Association, publisher of Poetry magazine, electrified the arts and philanthropic communities. David Fenza, executive director of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, was serving on a National Endowment for the Arts grant panel at the time and remembers being shocked by "administrators from all over the world using the term 'irresponsible philanthropy.'" In time, though, he came to agree that "you don't convey a two-ton load on a bicycle." [My emphasis.]
Tell that to this guy.
Or this guy.
Or these guys.
Also this: Irresponsible philanthropy is buying Big Jonny a gift certificate to Big Top Liquor.
Me, I'd be superresponsible with $100 million big ones -- sticking primarily with wine and beer, and surely no brown alcohol.
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