Some words about the Live Earth

In no particular order:

* It. Was. Hot. There's no better way to explain the consequences of Global Warming than to have it on one of the hottest days of the year. Granted, it was a sunny day in July, but whatevs.

* Alicia Keys was the hottest thing on the planet on Saturday. For Ms. Keys and other fine performers, click here. Oh our goodness with the "Gimme Shelter."

* We also recommend anything Ludacris did, and the entire Mayer, DMB, Alicia, Police and Bon Jovi sets.

* Ah, Bon Jovi. The boys definitely turned in the best show of the day. They did have home field advantage, but still. Bon effing Jovi.

* The Police opened with "Driven to Tears," which made us very, very happy. The Police pretty much shredded their set. It's, like we love to say, they never left.

* Melissa Etheridge, who looks, from section 315, like either Tom Petty, an adult Jan Brady or John Denver without his specs, is a f*cking preacher and seriously, we tapped out about 10 minutes into her set. We would have tapped out earlier, but we were in shock. It's when people preach in an overly condescending and bitter way when the audience may tune said preacher out. Memo to Melissa: Next time more with the "Come To My Window" and less with the "If I can change, and youse can change, then we can change! And I just want to say to my kid back home, yo kid, I did it!"

* Memo to the 14-year-old drunk in front of us at the Mrs. Field's Cookies stand: Look, sweetie, when the Mrs. Field's Cookies sign doesn't help you, try looking at the counter to see all the Mrs. Field's Cookies in front of you before asking the very patient vendor, "What type of food do you have here?"

* We've never seen Dave Matthews not play guitar, but when his guitar sounded a bit off, he ditched it and stood at the mic playing what was fantastic air guitar. They easily had the second-best set, beat by the Bon Jovi only because it was Jersey.

* Speaking of, there is nothing more annoying than celeb after celeb coming on stage and saying, "What's up New York!" when the show was in NEW JERSEY. Thank goodness for Zach Braff, who'll be Govnah of this fine state someday. He started a reverse trend. If we were to take the stage someday at the Madison Square Garden, the first order of bidness will be to ask, "What's up New Jersey?"

* Smashing Pumpkins were OK. We'll leave it at that. It's certainly not 1998 anymore, though.

* Akon is quite the shirtless performer.

* We loved watching the 16-year-old stoner chicks and their boyfriend trying to figure out life while listening to Roger Waters sing "Dark Side of the Moon."

* Mayer kicked ass. As did Keith Urban. And Alicia. And Kelly. And pretty much everyone after 4:30 p.m. except for the Smashing of the Pumpkins.

All in all, good times. We know y'all were dying to know.

And for the record, we hope the emails stop.

Thank you so much for being part of Live Earth. Millions of people attended the concerts and the 10,000+ "Friends of Live Earth" events and house parties in 195 countries. Millions of people watched or heard the event online, on TV, or on the radio. Millions pledged to change their own actions and hold our leadership accountable.

You're part of an incredible worldwide movement - the moment when the world came together to demand solutions to the climate crisis. You can help us spread the word -please forward this email to five of your friends and ask them to sign onto the Live Earth Pledge at: www.liveearthpledge.org.

Together we will solve the climate crisis.

We're all for changing the world, but, um, we kind of just wanted to see a kick-ass lineup play a kick-ass show. We did recycle and car pool, though, and OMS maybe left a bit of sandwich in a tree for the squirrels. So there's that.