Carl Pope (President of the Sierra Club) sent me an email today to let me know that May 18 is Endangered Species Day. He asked me if I wouldn’t mind helping him spread the word to my extensive fan base (rumor has it, it’s up to six now!). I said, “Word, Pope.”
So here’s what I propose. Each of you pick an endangered species off the following list. (I’ve taken the liberty of whittling it down to the good ones.) Then promote that endangered species all day.
I call dibs on the manatee. I plan on re-writing the lyrics to Yoko’s “O’ Sanity” to “O’ Manatee” and singing that all day while wearing a t-shirt of Yoko dressed up as a manatee. That should get the word out about manatees.
Here are some other sweet endangered species you wish to support:
- Hawaiian hoary bat
- American black bear (you know how to defend yourself from these)
- bighorn sheep
- black-footed ferret
- jaguar (the animal, not the car)
- sea otter (both northern and southern)
- Panther
- Puma (not a car, but should be)
- Carolina northern flying squirrel
- voles (the animal, not Tennessee fans)
If you don’t want to start a specific species campaign, then Carl said you can always chuck some money the animal’s way.
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Mm, dum, doo, dum,
Mm, dum, doo, da-da, dum.
Its only sane to be insane,
Psychotic builds a castle and neurotic lives in it.
I don’t know what to do with my manatee
When the worlds at a verge of calamity.
O manatee, o manatee,
What am I to do with you?
Drink up, shoot up, anything you please
But shes always standing behind me like a devil in hell.
O manatee, o manatee,
Why dont you let me go?
Let go, let go,
Cut it out!