Posted on 10/09/2011 8:07:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It was the first New World Festival of Eco-Friendly Science and Technology and quite possibly the last.
The event near the beach in Santa Monica, which had been scheduled to run through Sunday, was shut down abruptly Saturday afternoon.
Its website had promised robots, a petting zoo, six stages of live music and more than 150 exhibits. But the gathering on Saturday looked more like a medium-sized, eco-friendly farmers market.
Howard Mauskopf, the festival's organizer, said he needed to shut down because so few people had shown up. "We're in a position where we don't have the financial ability to continue," he said, adding that he would have needed eight to 10 times the crowd that was present to make ends meet. He said he is going to try to reimburse food vendors next week.
"I don't know why people didn't come," he said.
Meanwhile, some event vendors worried that they would not be paid what they were owed.
Rose Faranal, a vendor who sold organic pizzas and chili at the event, said customers purchased food tickets from the festival, which they could redeem at her booth and others. She said she was owed hundreds of dollars, but didn't know if or how she'd be reimbursed.
"This is what we got paid with," she said, holding up hundreds of paper slips. "Useless money."
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Cash is king sweetie.
All of his customers went to Occupy this, that and the other thing.
We need the HA HA guy.
Howard Mauskopf
Howard Mousehead. Figures.
Eco-Morons are among the most easily deceived people on the planet.
Sorry Howie. We’ve already had the 1960’s. Rent the movie.
But they're having Gunga-Lagunga Saladin for dinner in the White Hut every night...
"Oh, uh, there won't be any money,
but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."
...so at least they still got that going for them
TOSS THE Czar/Tsar/Caesar SALADin in 2012!
My older kid (a well-groomed conservative, of course), commented that maybe the thousands of people who didn’t show up were simply keeping in the spirit of the event and not wasting fuel (and causing global warming) to see it.
>>...so at least they still got that going for them
...so at least they still got that going for them - which is nice.
[BillMurrayVoice -OFF]
So there’s no great demand for “art” and “sculpture” made out of garbage???? Who knew???????
I thought robots didn't like petting zoos.
Santa Monica isn’t exactly a convenient location for the average LA resident. Even if they could take a bus there
it would take several hours each way.
Years ago, while making travel arrangements, an airline representative asked me if I wanted to purchase "carbon off-sets."
I had trouble completing the transaction because I couldn't control my outbursts of laughter. At the end, I managed to ask if anyone took her up on the offer. She said yes, but not many.
All they need is a little stimulus money....
It's because people are sick and tired of having lousy pro-environment ideas, which end up causing higher prices and costing jobs, shoved down their throats.
"Here honey. Pet this cow dung...see how warm it is? Smell it...smell the methane? Cows are evil. They are contributing to global warming."
Could mean Democrats just aren’t “smart” anymore.
It’s a robot petting zoo. Be careful of the xerox machine.they have been known to attack people and copy their butts.
The Eco-Fad is dependant on people having extra money to spend on it. Unemployed people don’t have extra money to spend on fads and Eco-Fads put people out of work.
So true.
Solyndra was the final nail in the coffin of the green scam (I wish).
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