Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion

CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."

In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.

--the Onion Newspaper

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AND... the link to the Chicago Public Radio recording of our Looptopia performance. If the link doesn't work, go to www.chicagopublicradio.org and search for "looptopia".

http://www.chicagopublicradio.
org/Program_AMP_Segment.
aspx?segmentID=10896

I wished to live deliberately

"I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to
die, to discover that I had not lived."-- Henry David Thoreau

May 11th, 2007

Marks the first performance I have ever directed. :)

(It was recorded for Chi Public Radio; I'll get the link up once I have it.)

In other fantastic news: I just found out some of my work will be published in an anthology! More word to come...

updates: (brought to you in lazy powerpoint bullets form)

* my dad's bday celebration- went to see the Dalai Lama speak, organized a picnic, and got my dad and dada tickets to his private teaching. :)

* CA was amazing. Rage was fantastic, and the entire experience was worth the trip. QT w/ Hardee and my brother at the concert, planning w/ double oh, and catching up w/ anup. good times.

* work is still taking over my life. but it's great. between the website development, grant writing, market research focus groups, program planning (we are now planning fall 2008!), event planning, recruiting and hiring artistic directors and authors, and editorial work- it's like getting 2349823098 graduate degrees hands-on. with that being said, i am exhausted, and i feel like burnout is always something on my radar.

* vish graduates this year. holy god.

ah, quotes

"how can i go from seeing rage against the machine live to the dalai lama? is it going to be an acoustic set?" -vim

"fine, don't go. hang out with your friends."
"no, i'm coming. i'll feel guilty all night if i don't come home now."
-me and vish, in the moment i discovered i am becoming my mom. :)

"my seester! you up for some cultural learnings this weekend?" -vero trying to get me to go out