Sigh. Tonight's guests are so much less interesting to me than last night's. I know virtually nothing about Louis C.K. although I must have heard his work in Home Movies and Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.
On the other hand he's appeared on The Opie & Anthony Show, which, like South Park, Jackass, and most new Family Guy's, I think of as representative of a fart joke and pain and humiliation based comedy of which I do not approve or find funny in the least.
Some people like The Stooges and some people don't. I'll give him this, like George Carlin (who's one of his models) he does a new show each year.
Let me tell you about Traverse City, Michigan-
The Traverse City area is the largest producer of tart cherries in the United States. Near the time of cherry harvest, the city hosts the annual week-long National Cherry Festival in the first full week of July, attracting approximately 500,000 visitors annually. Tourism, both summer and winter, is another key industry. The Traverse City area features varied natural attractions, including freshwater beaches, vineyards, a National Lakeshore, downhill skiing areas, and numerous forests.
Been to the Cherry Festival many times on the way to visit the U.P. (I'm telling you, only half Troll). The problem is I hate Cherries.
However, speaking of the Great Lakes some of you might be interested in this piece from Think Progress today-
The Great Lakes Go Dry: How One-Fifth Of The World’s Fresh Water Is Dwindling Away
By Joanna M. Foster, Think Progress
January 28, 2014 at 11:23 am
Increasingly, scientists believe that climate change is driving the warming waters and setting up a new regime in the Great Lakes that may lead to lower lake levels and a permanently altered shoreline.
Ever since the 1990s, Lake Michigan has been predominantly below its long-term water level average, and trending downwards. Water levels plummeted precipitously in the late 1990s, after a strong El Niño event warmed up the waters.
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“The 1998 El Niño gave us a taste of what we can expect to see on the Great Lakes in a changing climate,” said Don Scavia, Co-Director of the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA). “The El Niño-driven warmer temperatures are a surrogate for what the future climate might be. The lower lake levels during that time may be a signal of what might be happening under longer term climate change.”
In other words, last winter’s record low lake levels are a glimpse of what a warmer climate in the region would do to the lakes — a glimpse that so far has lasted 15 years, set off by one hot summer.
At Newport State Park, one of five state parks in Door County, the vanishing water has changed the shoreline dramatically. The beach, once a wide expanse of silky mustard-colored sand that on a hot summer day would be crawling with a hundred sunscreen-smeared tourists, is now covered in tall reeds, marsh grasses, mud and exposed rocks sheathed in slick green slime. There is no inviting sand, just a marshland down to the water’s edge and the water is clogged with tangled clumps of matted algae like something pulled out of a shower drain.
Door County is right across the lake in Wisconsin.
Stephen has Justin Tuck as part of his Superb Owl XLVIII run up week. Justin is a Defensive End for the New York Giants and as such has known that the only way he was going to get to Giants Statium was buy a ticket for months now.
The big scandal in the Tri-State Area today is that the Feds busted a ticket counterfeiting operation that produced not only high quality basically indistinguishable parking passes and tickets, but also invites to the NFL Commissioner's after party.
As Jon might say, that's some classy organized crime, not this Chris Christie Clown Car Circus.
Remaining this week are-
The Daily Show
* Wednesday 1/29: Johnny Knoxville
* Thursday 1/30: Rep. Nancy Pelosi
The Colbert Report
* Wednesday 1/29: Cris Carter
* Thursday 1/30: Drew Brees
I'm warning you right now that I'm absolutely 100% NOT KIDDING about Sochi and March Madness. I'm giving you plenty of time to get organized and I'm willing to contribute my part, but I wait 4 years to watch the Norwegians prance around in their fancy pants and I can see Jon and Stephen make fools of themselves 4 times a week mostly every week.