the woodstock of my generation

... happened today, 7/7/7, and we, appropriately if sadly we  could only watch on the internet.  It happened in Sydney, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Rio, Hamburg, New York, DC, Shanghai and London.

It was Al Gore's Live Earth concerts, a 24-hour marathon of music and awareness, an attempt to awaken a generation to the peril of global warming.  An attempt to use popular music, the poetry of my generation that has no other poetry, an attempt to reach people emotionally where the avananche of facts, and figures, and testimony has failed to reach them.

It happened late.  it could have, should have happened 20 years ago, when Gore was a freshman congressman pissing into the wind with his evidence to a deaf and indifferent congress.  But it didn't. 

So he's trying again.  Really he's rallying two generations: mine, which has been in waiting since 'The Age of Reagan', and the current one, which is me-1.

I hope it helps.  God knows we could use it.  If it raises the bar even a little bit it is worth it.

"Whatever you do, don't exhale!  We've had quite enough of that!" - Spinal Tap @ Wembley Arena :).