the NEA

at this point, giving the national endowment for the arts a hard time is akin to kicking puppies. still, since my life has been taken over the past few days by its massive grant application, I'd like to encourage the NEA to make the process just a tad easier. frankly, I'm hoping that if I make it all the way through, there will be so few of us standing they'll almost HAVE to give us the damn grant.