The eco-joke is on Hollywood

Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | 05/19/2007 | Rex Murphy

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The eco-joke is on Hollywood By REX MURPHY Saturday, May 19, 2007 – Page A21

Jay Leno is not a global warming skeptic. The blandly humorous host of The Tonight Show is at one with the Hollywood ethos wherein no fashionable cause can fail to be embraced. Entertainers and those who feed most directly off them may not be climatologists, but they are wonderfully precise barometers of what is hip and trendy.

Thus Vanity Fair magazine put out its "green issue" last month. Vanity Fair could offer reasonable competition to Vogue as being the slickest, fattest, glossiest trumpet of most that is wasteful, ephemeral, trivial and ostentatiously luxurious in Western culture.

[Red Badger]

Vanity Fair could offer reasonable competition to Vogue as being the slickest, fattest, glossiest trumpet of most that is wasteful, ephemeral, trivial and ostentatiously luxurious in Western culture.

[Red Badger]

oops!....That IS the definition of vanity.....

[AZLiberty]

Leno has so many cars he has a 17,000 square foot garage just to keep some of his toys in. It's called the Big Dog Garage, and we are told from its online site that it has its own gourmet kitchen (may we hope it's organic?) in addition to a C&C Mill (I have no idea), a water jet cutter, sheet metal equipment, a lathe, a regular mill, and welding equipment.

That should be "CNC" (not "C&C") meaning "Computerized Numerical Control". Roughly speaking, it's programmable.

[AZLiberty]

Popular Mechanics goes on to inform us that Jay has learned that the solvents used to clean "greasy, grimy automotive parts" are toxic, and "toxic chemicals harm the environment." So Jay has put in a new eco-friendly parts washer recently that does the job without the negative impact. The new washer "essentially uses microbes that consume the oils and grease."

Cancel Kyoto. It's redundant. Jay has microbes working to clean his parts. Hollywood cares. The immense farcicality of owning more cars than Madonna has had boyfriends, and claiming in a 17,000 square foot garage (with its own gourmet kitchen) that you are eco-friendly is evidently lost on the blandly humorous host of The Tonight Show.

Funny. Maybe NASCAR will get global warming kudos if it starts using microbes for parts cleaning.

[Old Sarge]

::singing:: What’s for supper, “greasy, grimy auto parts”....

[kitkat]

BUMP

[GOPJ]

Leno's doing the world a favor preserving classic cars -- nice favor to future generations. Let's give him a pass -- even if he has mixed the cool with nutty global warming beliefs.

[muffaletaman]

Leno is doing the right thing.

The ultra wealthy spend their money on all their toys and construction of huge garages and kitchens and so forth.

Tradesmen and construction workers and sales people etc. make a living - take the wealthy peoples money in doing their jobs and earning their pay, spend it on their homes and kids educations and maybe their IRAs and so forth.

And the engine of the economy chugs along.

Leno’s lucky he is in mass media and thus is mass-wealthy. Some folks may be jealous - tough.

But he is following “the rule” - money is like cow manure - it doesn’t do much good unless you spread it around... (who is the originator - WC Fields?)

Spend that money, Jay!

[zipper]

"...Vogue as being the slickest, fattest, glossiest trumpet of most that is wasteful, ephemeral, trivial and ostentatiously luxurious in Western culture"

No that honor goes to the Robb Report (I drool just thinking about it)