Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Earthquake Canada shakes NYC + Soceer + Taylor indicted by Suzannah B. Troy

Time for the NYC round-up live from New York! The USA soccer team won! There were loud screams of joy I witnessed and show you for a mili-second here in NYC. If you felt your home shaking here in NYC and it wasn't from passionate love or a subway line running under your home than it must have been the 5.5 magnitude earthquake from Southern Ontario, Canada.

I think it was about 1986, I remember feeling slight tremors from an earthquake so it wouldn't be a first for New Yorkers.

On to sad bad news. LT, Lawrence Taylor was indicted for having sexual intercourse and oral sex with a minor. The New York Post wrote this, "Taylor, 51, a Hall of Famer with a drug-plagued past, was slapped with felony rape, misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child and other charges in the May 6 incident."
and this as well.

Taylor's agent, Mark Lepselter, told The Post today, "The bottom line is, there was no surprise" from the indictment. "We weren't blind-sided."

How ironic is that statement about being blind-sided when Taylor is the crown jewel of the best selling book and film that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar and proved she was blind sided when it came to her cheating husband. Ironic for Taylor because he could have ridden the wave of the success of "The Blind Side" which pays tribute to him in the opening lines of the film but instead he road his way in to self destruction, yet again.

I feel most sorry for the young woman that was exploited and pray she achieves her dreams and or at least is safe among friends.

New Yorker agree, our government from Albany and I include City Hall stinks!

On to happy news. I have more footage of Giuseppi Logan who will be playing a gig at the 5C Cultural Center Sunday at 5:30. GIuseppi composed and played sax on his two successful albums by ESP records in the 1960's before he self destructed and disappeared. But I filmed him 2 years ago in Tompkins Square Park and he is no longer lost but on the road to redemption late in life. He has a new album, his first since the 1960's and the album is well received.

Giuseppi Logan is playing the piano in Tompkins Square Park. The piano is there as part of a program called "Arts Activism in Action." Volunteer, Gary Newton unlocked the piano so Giuseppi Logan could play. I am told GL played the bag pipes, flute, sax, clarinet and piano.

He told me he wished he had a piano in his home.

Right now we can't even get his phone up and working. Hope to have that resolved soon.