This is Producer Will Hines again, filling in for Mo while he continues his week-long sabbatical.
Today is April 22 or "Earth Day," a well-intentioned holiday that helps raise awareness of important environmental issues. But ironically, Earth Day itself feels inorganic to me -- forced and even rote. Better that then nothing when it comes to protecting the world, I know.
Still, much more interesting to me is "4/20" -- the unofficial celebration of marijuana which occurs two days before. I don't partake of marijuana -- we here at Mo Rocca 180 are notoriously unadventurous when it comes to drugs. But I am fascinated with successful civil disobedience. On Sunday at the University of Colorado, thousands of students gathered and smoked marijuana in public with no reports of other recklessness or lawbreaking. There were police on hand, but seeing that they were outnumbered, simply allowed the kids to smoke marijuana while making sure the gathering was otherwise safe. That's a smart, pragmatic decision which I respect. It gives me hope that there's a chance to have non-violent protest without having police or other authorities feeling threatened.
That, and stoners are hilarious. We didn't go so far as to administer a blood test, but the seemingly affected young men that Mo interviewed in this piece on Mitt Romney were two of my most favorite interviewees (they first appear at 26 seconds in). And they certainly seemed to be keeping their world "green."
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16. wow J.G. grilling without leaving a carbon footprint....my kinda guy!
I'm guessing Mo is working his way up the East River in a canoe...sort of an Earth Day PSA reenactment...his wig is itchy, he didn't get all his vaccinations, his oar dissolved...etc.,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3QKvEy0AIk
ah,Clem at 1:08PM on Apr 23rd 2008
17. Clemmie:
Mo going up the river?
I got some juice at Rikers.
And I hope no one gave that Injun a hard time about having a "green card."
JG^^
John Giza at 2:18PM on Apr 23rd 2008
18. Okay Roccats:
Pop Quiz.
What is Will Hines middle name?
Is it the same as Theodore Roosevelt's?
Or is it...
Stay tuned for more as Mo decides who to fire.
FINN: A little video footage if you would...
JG^^
John Giza at 2:50PM on Apr 23rd 2008
19. Ahh. You thought I was kidding. Mo opened for Pope Benedict at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York. He was very funny. Look at this blog I found for a picture:
http://wwuseminarian.blogspot.com/2008/04/mo-rocca.html
bonaventure at 2:52PM on Apr 23rd 2008
20.
thanks for the picture, bonaventure!
(two mints in one as I'm catholic and a Mo fan---I've been keeping track...)
become a Roccat and join us?
ah,Clem at 3:20PM on Apr 23rd 2008
21. Bonnie,
Wow. You must really be a fan if you take notice of the opening act.
Have you heard of Hank Kimball?
JG
John Giza at 3:56PM on Apr 23rd 2008
22. I have heard of me.
Well, not exactly heard, so much as seen,
in the mirror...
oh,
I was just reading this great book by Dr. Paul Beadledrum called "Tomorrow Never Happened."
I think it has something to do with being "GREEN."
Anyway,
He argues that time is a reverse arrow. In Physics. I don't get it, but he suggests we consult this song for explication:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mip_5oIsLCk
God Bless Mo Rocca '08
JG
Hank Kimball at 4:27PM on Apr 23rd 2008
23. http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/mobanking/
LOL check it out.
dizflores at 2:55PM on Apr 24th 2008
24. In these times when truth is regarded as an unimportant "special interest" -- even in matters of war and global human survival -- this act of humble peaceful anarchy is something all Americans can be proud of.
Here are some Photo webpages of the CU Boulder 420 2008 gathering:
LINK: http://www.ThirdTablet.com/2008/CU-420/
[10,000 peaceably assemble at CU Boulder's Leader-less Annual 420 Celebration. Zero Leaders. Zero Tickets. Zero Arrests. University of Colorado at Boulder, Norlin Quad, Colorado USA -- April 20, 2008].
Phil Weinstein at 3:45PM on Apr 27th 2008
25. I think the other planets are getting short shrift. Don't even start with me about Pluto. Plutonians went from living on a planet to living on Kuiper belt object. I for one would file a formal protest about that. Has there ever been a Uranus day? I think not. While I know that Earth needs to be stroked now and then to boost its self esteem among the planets, it is, alas, true that the big smelly, gaseous planets constatnly disply hubris and a giant ego and, frankly, look down on Earth as being inferior. So three cheers for Earth day because, as we all know, the Earth really cares what we think and a little TLC goes a long way for an inanimate object hurdling through space around a nondescript star on the fringe of a remote galaxy precariously harboring some protoplsmic carbon based beings arrogant enough to believe that they are destroying it.
Eric at 10:31AM on Apr 29th 2008