What’s Next?

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… edible toilet paper!

Touring the United States and Europe this year, Sheryl Crow arrives at venues with an assortment of environmental demands certain to vex concert promoters, according to a review of the musician’s 2010 backstage rider.
The document, excerpted here, actually has a 2-1/2 page “environmental portion” to be “strictly followed and policed.” Seeking to “minimize the overall environmental impact of our tour,” Crow demands that only biodegradable cups and dinnerware be used by the caterer. Produce should be “organic and purchased from local suppliers as much as possible.” And for the five backstage “watering stations,” water “must be sourced from a local spring water vendor.”

… previous Crow.

42 Replies to “What’s Next?”

  1. And to ensure that she’s not seen as a self-righteous hypocrit, she’s be bicycling from venue to venue.

  4. That home may be out of date. I think Sheryl now lives in Tennessee, not in LA, with her two young adopted sons. She’s now trying to sell this home, whose MAIN house is a cramped 11,000 square feet. There is also a 2000 sq ft guest quarters, plus other living quarters in the “barn”.
    When she moved in to her Tennessee home she is said to have given the entire place a make-over. I wonder if she’ll give here next residence a make over as well.

  7. Take a personal environmental audit;
    if (your score is lower than an average American’s)
    ____Feel free to advise us on how to live;
    else
    ____STFU; // Excuse profanity

  9. Given the havoc a bunch of drunken/high concertgoers can wreak on a venue, I’d have more respect for her if she’d enforced rules about the audience seating. Given the amount of trash and waste that will end up littering the parking lot after a decent-sized show, all these demands amount to a fart in a tornado.

  10. I have been using her “dining sleeve” idea for years. Although my sleeves aren’t disposable. I’m wondering when these stars will get around to doing away with Kleenex and just blow their noses right onto the sidewalk. That’s always classy.

  13. I’ve got no problem with Sheryl Crow or anybody following their own self-imposed eco restrictions (I’ve followed my own eco rules for years according to my conscience and I’m sure many other people do the same without tooting their horns all over the place).
    But the problem with all the new “eco-warriors” is they want to impose their personal choices on others. They’re really no different than religious fanatics who feel the obsessive need impose their theocracy — e.g. “convert, or off with your head!”

  16. When one looks at the waste that one generates in the US, it is remarkable. I’ve taken my RV down there for the past four years into Idaho and Montana. They don’t recycle anything (bottles, cardboard, newspaper, plastic containers and bags, etc). This past trip, we were generating one small garbage bag of litter per day (3 of us and two small dogs) and it was bothering me, because, at home in Calgary we generate only one to two of the same sized bags per week (and there are four if us contributing to that). So to be fair to Ms. Crow if she has a rider in her contract that seems to help keep non-biodegradable crap out of the landfill, more power to her.

  18. If the world is to end because we use too much toilet paper; we’ll all have women to blame.
    RE: John’s comments
    SMUG ALERT!!!

  19. I think she should forgo the 3 tour buses and 8 transport trucks belching diesel that she uses to cross cross the United States every tour. If she thinks that we should all eat food grown within 100 miles of our homes how about we up the ante. We only go see musicians that live within 100 miles of our homes. That will really cut down on our carbon footprint.

  20. I use copious amounts of paper towels. They are convenient, easy, cheap. I also use as much toilet paper as nature demands and I have an expensive eco type toilet that must always be flushed twice to get the job done. Heh, that toilet could be a federal government employee.
    From now on, every time I toss a paper towel or push for the second flush to get all that toilet paper rid of, I will think of Cheryl Crow.
    Cheryl has promoted her image to be related to kitchen and bathroom functions.
    That’s a shitty image in my view. What does she do anyway? Arrange tours for actual musical artists? How do they feel about all this whiny stuff?

  22. Just because one has the ability to write a catchy tune doesn’t mean they are smart enough to tell people how to live, or vote. I for one would love to ram my fist into Bono’s face.

  23. there is nothing wrong with reducing the amount of crap going to the dump.we’ve done it for years on our own volition, the problem with Ms crows attitude is that her token efforts and overall hypocrisy will lead to the kind of coercion already championed by eco fascists like back-to-the-cave-Dave Suzuki or the carbon glutton gore

  25. It should be obvious to anyone with at least half a brain that this diva-twit is greenwashing herself in an attempt to get more people to buy tickets to her energy-wasting, pollution-spewing concert tour. It’s always about money.

  26. She is dumber than a bag of hammers.
    I like to think the lumberjacks and paper workers need employment also. Aspen is a fast growing renewable resource.

  27. you knowi used to think she was actually a cool person and her music is good to ……….till i found this out …what a loser!!! see ya later cheryl you big duchebag!!
    Paul in calgary

  28. “The bigger the Star, the dumber the results.”
    “She always looked to me as though she needed a bath. Now I know why.”
    “Imagine if she was talented.”
    “She is dumber than a bag of hammers.”
    “what a loser!!! see ya later cheryl you big duchebag!!”
    Intelligent debate is alive and well at SDA. Consider the absence of ad hominem attacks in this thread.
    Always odd how people who claim to believe in freedom of expression and belief enjoy launching vicious attacks on people who disagree with them. I would hate to see what you do the next Jehovah’s witness/Hare Krishna/Evangelist who shows up at your doorstep.
    “But the problem with all the new “eco-warriors” is they want to impose their personal choices on others. They’re really no different than religious fanatics who feel the obsessive need impose their theocracy — e.g. “convert, or off with your head!””
    Freedom of speech means that she can say what she wants. Can she impose any of it on you? Hardly. So why the fuss.
    Now, before y’all pepper me with insults, be advised that it has no effect. I stand for everything. And I stand for nothing.

  29. I would hate to see what you do the next Jehovah’s witness/Hare Krishna/Evangelist who shows up at your doorstep.
    I simply tell them I’m a committed and devout Jedi-Knight Shaman and proceed to implore them to convert to my religion. They quickly excuse themselves and leave. It works every time.
    I doubt if you would hate seeing it, and if you had any sense of humor you’d likely be amused.

  30. “I simply tell them I’m a committed and devout Jedi-Knight Shaman and proceed to implore them to convert to my religion. They quickly excuse themselves and leave. It works every time.
    I doubt if you would hate seeing it, and if you had any sense of humor you’d likely be amused.”
    I would be very amused. I took am a Jedi-Knight Shaman.

  31. I didn’t see your original post, John Galt, but I think I may know the answer.
    “…and this little snippet of pop culture diva dumbness is newsworthy because?”
    It gives people who like money the chance to rant at and insult people who actually succeed in making money.
    I may be wrong. I may be right. Just saying.

  34. I may be wrong. I may be right.
    Posted by: devil’s advocate at August 13, 2010 9:13 PM
    You may need a jack hammer to drive a pin up your ass.

  35. devil’s own: May I apologize on everyone’s behalf for mocking out Ms. Crow’s hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and pretentiousness, … so insensitive of us.

  36. She was a fixture at Nascar races a few years ago,we all know how environmentally responsible those race teams are regarding their “carbon footprint”, even sang the national anthem at least once.After she got dumped by whatever driver she was stalking at the time she turned into an eco-weenie.

  37. “You may need a jack hammer to drive a pin up your ass.”
    +2 for humor. 0 for intellectual content. Really depends on what you were trying to achieve with the statement.
    “devil’s own: May I apologize on everyone’s behalf for mocking out Ms. Crow’s hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and pretentiousness, … so insensitive of us.”
    Why are you apologizing to me? If you feel that you have to apologize, apologize to yourself. You have nothing to prove to me. But you do owe yourself a modicum of dignified stature and honorable bearing. Most of the outpourings here are merely derivatives of schadenfreude. Schadenfreude, while common, is hardly classy.

  38. devil’s advocate:
    No schadenfreude – that requires someone to suffer misfortune, and I don’t see anything that suggests Ms Crow has suffered a misfortune.
    No matter what you think of Ms Crow’s musical and song-writing talents or appearance, none of that makes her an environmental expert or economist – so she is lecturing and hectoring the general citizenry on the basis of limited or no knowledge; not surprisingly, people find that irritating. Perhaps some credit is due to her for (for example) citing ‘within 100 mile’ products – but I note that her commitment to low environmental impact activities seems limited to instances that will not inconvenience her, although they may inconvenience others. Her personal lifestyle – the vastly oversize homes, for example – indicates that her dictates are to be followed by “the common folk” not by the likes of herself. Again, people find such blatant hypocrisy annoying, particularly when Ms Crow makes her very good living by transporting several tonnes of equipment around the country – her insistence on low-impact food choices for the green room is a bit of a fart in a hurricane, wouldn’t you agree?

  39. >>devil’s advocate 8:47 pm
    >>Intelligent debate is alive and well at SDA. Consider the absence of ad hominem attacks in this thread.
    The posts you cite are not ad hominem (actually ad feminam) attacks. Rather, they are an application of Alinsky’s 5th Rule (Rules for Radicals, check it out), something that the proggies have been using for months against the Tea Party. Turnabout is fair play, especially since the proggies have full access to the LSM which are still the main opinion source for the gullibles, whereas we have only a few blog sites, SDA, Lucianne.com, etc. which few of the gullibles see.

  40. “No schadenfreude – that requires someone to suffer misfortune, and I don’t see anything that suggests Ms Crow has suffered a misfortune.”
    You will note that I never said it was schadenfreude. I said it was a derivative of schadenfreude. Just a different stage of the process that eventually leads to schadenfreude. Should any misfortune fall upon Ms. Crow, I am sure many here will be having moments of schadenfreude.
    I don’t agree or disagree with what Ms. Crow says. In fact, I really don’t care. However, I fail to see how one can justify the insults that have flown her way after she exercised her freedom of speech. I don’t see her trying to coerce or force anyone here, so I am not entirely convinced that the insults are warranted or necessary.
    If you feel the need to verbally insult everybody who dares to have a different opinion than you, then you risk losing your dignity and integrity. Live and let live, as the saying goes.
    “The posts you cite are not ad hominem (actually ad feminam) attacks. Rather, they are an application of Alinsky’s 5th Rule (Rules for Radicals, check it out), something that the proggies have been using for months against the Tea Party.”
    Most interesting. Many thanks. Though I should add that the claims about who introduced it into blogging has more than a tinge of “which came first – chicken or the egg?” about it.

  41. Something happens to stars. I don’t know if it is the insane money in the business but for some reason they feel they have the obligation to be humble and ‘common’ among all the other memes. Some reveal they are misguided and some reveal they are whackos. What they can do is sing or pretend to be someone they are not. Other than that Meh on global events or a normal life. A caretaker has more common sense.

  42. Hey Sheryl, if you really cared about the environment, you would just stay home. Imagine, if you can, no more noise pollution.

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