Earth Day came and went with a yawn this year despite the growing vogue of “going green.” Hapless efforts to present earth-saving education and literature have been roused, including hyped efforts of nationwide free concerts, but to little avail. People will do as much as they can to save the earth as long as it takes no more than an one second extra compared to their original daily plan. And though the message of saving the environment is clear and abound, Earth Day was washed over, both literally and figuratively.
As you may have heard by now, the Green Apple Festival on the mall was supposed to be awesome: a free concert with the Roots, Umphry’s McGee, Toots and the Maytals, etc., etc, but damned if it was a great ironic sign from Gaia, it monsooned. Right after Umphry’s mini-set, all of two songs, the skies opened up. The good part? It happened right as Chevy Chase was coming on stage, so at least you got to see “Fletch” get rained up on. As for the few hours that did go on as planned, there was more litter on the mall despite the abundance of trash recepticals around than there has ever been, consisting mostly of disposable yogurt tubes and soy bar wrappers that were distributed by the handful. Maybe this was all tongue and cheek…you know…cause Earth day was really Tuesday.
In news that couldn’t be more unrelated…and stretches the idea of what “news” is, I finally realized why they kooky, lewd band fronted by Kyle Gas and even more fronted by Jack Black named themselves “Tenacious D.” Now this is only a theory, of course, but check it out:
IT’S A DICK! IT’S ONE GIANT DICK JOKE! Tenacious as any fan knows by now just means “stubborn.” But why the letter D? BECAUSE THEY NEEDED A LONG WORD WITH A ‘D’ AT THE END TO MAKE THEIR NAME LOOK LIKE A BIIIIIIIG PENIS!
Well, that was good for a chuckle.
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