Live Aid 8 v. 2.0
To those in Africa, the dishes served on "Fear Factor" look like Wolfgang Puck slapped them together! Enter "Live Aid 8." For a few thousand clams, you can have a skybox like this, all you can eat buffet, and open bar while enjoying the concert. Someone in promotions for the big upcoming concert event has egg on his face today. CNN reported the ugly truth this morning on the "free" concert which will take place simultaneously at various stadiums here and abroad. As I talked about a few weeks ago, there has always been a question looming overhead these big fundraisers: Where does the money go? If you want to go to one of these shows and rock out with U2, Coldplay, Robert Plant, and dozens of others, you can sit way in the back of the stadium with your binoculars, or pony up a few thousand dollars to see things in style. Don't think the money is going to Africa...according to the report, that money covers exactly what you get: Personal chef, open bar, and everyone waiting on you hand and foot. To make matters worse, the "free" tickets that were given out are resurfacing with scalpers who are selling them for as much as a few hundred bucks! Of course, they will not be forwarding the money to anywhere but their own bank accounts. So, what we have here is expensive skyboxes, food. booze and scalped tickets. Isn't that contradictory to what that event is all about? If you've got money to burn, send it to Africa yourself and sit home and eat Maruchan Noodle soup and watch it on TV. What a scam! In the time it took me to write this, 2000 people starved to death over there. Oh screw it, THAT'S the way I see it...I'm going to Outback Steakhouse. I'll order a second baked potato with sour cream and chives and dedicate it to them!
posted by Dave Sypniewski at
Saturday, June 18, 2005
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