I tried to go to Washington D.C.’s Earth Day Celebration this weekend. The Green Apple Music Festival, a free event in eight cities,featured an impressive lineup of music including The Roots, Government Mule, Umphrey’s McGee, and Toots and the Maytals. The festival also included a slate of activists, comedians, and elected officials who I’m sure had a great deal of eye-opening remarks planned (since when do prosperous persons standing behind pedestals say anything else?)
As it turned out, the Earth wouldn’t cooperate with the party, as the skies unleashed monsoon conditions that only a maniac would sit through to watch a concert. To anyone who made it to the show through the relentless sheets of rain/ground shaking thunder: kudos. You clearly have more sincere interests in both music and global sustainability than I do.
My day came to an end only two blocks into my walk to the mall. A cotton sweatshirt doesn't do much to keep you dry, apparently.