I Heart Roger Clark

Well, even Roger has his serious days. This past Friday, sporting a brown buttoned up polo shirt and undoubtedly relieved to be off Queens power outage duty, he was on the Lower East Side reporting on a protest in progress to save St. Brigid's Church which was constructed in the wake of the Potato Famine by Irish shipbuilders for recent immigrants. In NYC, protests to save anything involving landmarks and especially endangered species (remember Pale Male?), are sure to bring out the most endearingly wacky that this city has to offer. In the case of St. Brigid's, there were the usuals wearing signs, beads and Birkenstocks. Rog interviewed a gentleman in a torn blue shirt, who protested the demolition by climbing to the top of the church and waving his hands in the air until he was handcuffed and issued a summons. In his interview with Clark, he reminded all Americans that we're still free to protest in such a way. Somehow I knew Rog wouldn't be joining him in any climbing. But Clark's report may have done some good. Demolition was stopped by a court until at least the end of August. That's our Roger!