Live What?

So today I'm surfing through my eighteen hundred and sixty-three channels and I run across this large concert called "Live Earth" okay that sounds delightfully innocuous enough. As I gather more evidence the entire thing just puzzles me. Its a concert event that raises awareness about the climate change! That doesn't strike me as very appealing on any scale. It's like lining up twenty artists to tell you whether or not to wear a jacket, which is basically the same thing your mother would do every day when you were a kid.

So now it sounds about as interesting as watching paint dry. Or in this case environmentally friendly organic paint that comes in a recyclable paint can. You know the kind of paint that will not make the temperature rise a sixth of a degree in the next decade.

I start watching this, mostly because the environmentally unfriendly batteries in my remote control seem to be dying. I start to see signs pop up on the stage about buying energy efficient appliances. This thing is like a really expensive Best Buy commercial. Or worst yet it's a gigantic charity concert whose primary goal is basically to tell you not to leave your refrigerator door open.

Or maybe it's a lavish attempt to launch Al Gore into a very compelling career as a master of ceremonies.

If they can have charity concerts that promote earth friendly lightbulbs maybe I can have a concert festival launched to save crushed ping pong balls from being thrown into the garbage can. Maybe the Foo Fighters will come to that one too.

I like earth, I like the environment. I even kind of like the temperature the way it is, and if it changed a sixth of a degree I'd be pretty pissed too. But having all these celebrities pander to me like this makes me want to drive a brand new Prius into a wall.