Archives October 2006

SQUEEGEE-GREETINGS SQUEEGEE-FANS!!! I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU BRIEF UPDATE ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE HOLIDAYS! TODAY, IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW, IS HALLOWEEN. I WAS A MILD MANNERED REPORTER THIS YEAR. I SQUEEGEE-PATROLLED SEVERAL BUSY AREAS OF THE CITY IN COSTUME- INCLUDING THE HALLOWEEN PARADE FROM SOHO TO CHELSEA. THERE WASN’T REALLY ANY CRIME, BUT THERE WAS A TON OF GRIME. I SPENT A LITTLE WHILE CLEANING SECTIONS OF THE PARADE ROUTE. AFTER I HAD CLEANED A FEW BLOCKS, I NOTICED IT WAS DIFFICULT TO FIND A RECEPTACLE, AND THE LITTER SEEMED TO BE NON-STOP, SO I GAVE UP THAT PURSUIT. THE CITY WILL HAVE EVERYTHING CLEANED UP BY MORNING ANYWAY. THAT WAS SQUEEGEE-MUCH IT TO MY NIGHT. MORE VIDEO BLOGS COMING SOON. UNTIL NEXT SQUEEGEE-TIME, SQUEEGEE-LATER.
SQUEEGEEMAN
 

I have been asked a few times “but what about your secret identity”? Well let’s just say that:
1. Having done skip-tracing in the past, I know how easy it is for somebody to find you, whether you move ONCE, or 3 times within a year. All of my skip-tracing was done without the use of a computer at that. Just buy a book.
2. If you drive, use a cellphone or anything else…well you get the idea.
3. My voice is pretty damn recognizable unless you are at least 75% deaf.
4. I’ve been in documentary films, music videos, public access TV, 4+ music groups…who am I foolin’?
5. As far as I know we only live once. Well I never have been big on livin’ to be an old man. We all gonna die so no need to cry!
I love the luchador tradition of mask-wearing, and I love theatrics in general. I think everybody’s entitled to wear masks, costumes, make up, or what have you… as far as hiding though, you probably don’t leave the house in your uniform, there’s camera’s at the ATMs, the streetlights, squad cars, stores… There is also such a thing as corrupt cops for folks to get info from for the right price. There’s nowhere to hide.
For the RLSH Community, I see uniforms mainly as fucntional symbols augmented with gear that helps you to do your job. Good luck, and have a drink for me >:D
Respect.
~X
 

Hardhitting news show DEADLINE! followed your favorite superheroes on a typical patrol. We kept Union Square safe and cleaned up the street, SLS style! Watch, laugh, and love! Check here for availability!
Here are the scheduled broadcasts of our feature:
Thu., Oct. 26th @ 11:00 PM ET
Sat., Oct. 28th @ 11:30 PM ET
Sun., Oct. 29th @ 6:00 PM ET
Tue., Oct. 31st @ 6:30 PM ET
ENJOY!
-Captain Xavier Obvious
 
 

YEAH, SO…UH…I’VE BEEN REALLY SQUEEGEE-BUSY FIGHTING GRIME, CRIME AND BEING FAMOUS. MAYBE THE CAPTAIN WILL GET OFF HIS SQUEEGEE-DUFF AND GET ON THOSE SAFETY VIDEOS HE’S BEEN SQUEEGEE-TALKING ABOUT. UNTIL THEN, SQUEEGEE-UPDATE!
SQUEEGEEMAN
 

Good old SBC tech support. No phone, no internet, but I’m “back in business” (internet-wise). I got the impression from a few messages I got that some folks thought thier “friendly neighborhood stupor-hero” (dubbed by a buddy of mine who remembers my past non-stop drunken adventures) was farther away than I really was.
Maybe my INTERNET went away for a while, but The Windy City sure as hell didn’t…and neither did I >:) Bein that I have never owned a cell-phone in my life, but bein hooked on the internet for the last 10 years, it’s crazy to see how much regular social networking has changed. I had begun to take for granted how much I depend on the ‘net. Funny huh?
Somethin to think about when you’re organizing w/ your comrades.
Respect.
~X
 

I have taken to patrolling without the mask a lot more, and found some serious benefit in doing so. Ideally A dark green and black centurion-style helmet for the future (similar to the light green mask, but exposing the face somewhat like Magneto from the X-Men comics)
For now, I have been alternating between no-mask and the black mask.
But *pssh* enough about fashion for now…I mean…light green on black, omigawd what was I thinking…that’s SO “Spring of 1981”.
 

I just had this conversation w/ my ole lady yesterday, then I got a friend invite today from a guy who has this issue as the main thing on his page. Deja Vu.
A lotta our fellow citizens talk shit about Jews sayin it’s cause they are “money grubbin, they’re ‘shiesters’ (will do anything to get …money)”, but ain’t that what THESE CRITICS talkin shit are all about?
It don’t get much more American than bein greedy and obsessed w/ money. (Sidenote: I ain’t saying thats how all Jews are, I’m sayin thats America talkin shit about a race for having “our same top priority”, money.)
Money ain’t my top priority, but that’s just how the shit runs.
It’s like if Iraq had declared war on us for havin too many “oil barons”. It’s like Tom Selleck talkin shit about somebody for havin a big mustache. It’s THAT ridiculous!!!
Another thing too that popped into my head while we was talkin last night was:
THE NAZIS KILLED MANY MORE JEWS, OTHER NON-COMBATANTS, AMERICAN SOLDIERS, AND ALLIES, AND OTHERS THAN THE TWIN TOWERS COULD HAVE EVER HELD. (Not discounting 9-11, keep readin.)
Not only was the Holocaust so much bigger, w/ all the over-packed Concentration Camps, and over-packed mass graves, but think of all the OTHER groups the Nazis singled out and killed too….Germans who didn’t agree and tried to flee, the gays (shit let em be gay, YOU dont have to fuck em, ya know?), the other surrounding countries Hitler went off on…all the ALLIES who died in combat in WW II…
I don’t discount the loss of lives in the Twin Towers…but if we can get mad about THAT, then why critisize the Holocaust survivors for bangin survival into thier kids’ heads via $ and status?
 

I know after my last two blogs this is gonna sound like bullcrap, But I swear on my logo this happened tonight…
Me and my Girl went to see Psycho Beach Party in St Pete. Hilarious check it out, but anyway as we come off the 275 overpass into Clearwater and there’s a car off the road, and UPSIDE DOWN in the drainage ditch!
One other guy has stopped, and he’s standing next to the victim, a young girl who’s like 25 feet away from the wreck and up on the bank! (huh?)
she’s sitting up and I yell “Is there anybody else in the car?” just as she flop’s flat on her back, I yell to the other stopper to call 911 and jump into the ditch with a splash, and sink up to my ankles in the mud. I yell to the girl one more time “is there anybody else in the car?” no answer the car is halfway immersed in the muck , I fumble around until I find the door handle & it pops, but being in the muck, it don’t budge. All I can think about is somebody hanging upside down from their seat belt head first in the water, or worse a kid in a baby seat. Now, I’m a 215 pound knuckle dragger, I like to power lift, not body build, but still, don’t ask how I ripped that door open, it just happened.
It’s pitch black in the car and I yell “FLASHLIGHT!” just as some new guy from the bank tosses me one! (great timing!) and I’m down in the car. Nothing, no kid, no adult, nothing. Thank God, now I can concentrate on the victim. Like I said this girl was at least 25 feet from the car, a nurse pulled over (Even better timing) and all this kid had was a broken forearm!
Some other new girl crouching with me says “Girl you have been saved for a reason!” stands right the @$ up and starts PRAYING aloud to Jesus thanking him for this girls life!!! I look down on her holding her head to keep her from moving it and say “I can’t argue with the prayer kid, this is some kinda miracle! I don’t have a clue how you ended all the way up here!” The Fire dept. arrived, she could move everything (Except her for arm) they boarded her and took off.
Everybody at the scene tells me what a great job I did, which they did just as good a job as me. And I took of home to get the muck outta my nice shoes.
I really needed this, I gotta admit after the Airsoft fiasco, I really felt like the “Circus clown” of the super hero community. This pulled my head outta my butt! The fact that I saw a situation and acted instead of reacted gave me my oomph back.
MORAL: Just when you think you’ve totally blown it, your luck will turn up. don’t give up being a hero!

I decided to head home and call it a quiet night when I saw two officers parked behind a little red truck, working there asses off on the left rear tire. I pull in behind their cars and park, My place is two minutes away and I offer the one cop (Older guy, don’t know him) the use of my floor jack, fix-a-flat, etc. he says “no we have it under control”. so I say good night and turn to leave when I hear “HOLD IT!”
I stop and the cop says “What the Hell is That?” he’s spotted my Airsoft Mac-11 and is walking towards me, it’s dark but I think I see his hand on his weapon.
I try to tell him it’s a Airsoft, and stupidly reach for it this is when he yells for his partner. Things are deteriorating fast. The guy has no clue what a Airsoft anything is, or who superhero is either. Thank God his partner did. The partner says “oh yeah” it’s Airsoft with a big smile and take the gun, admiring it I think, and trying not to laugh at his partners dismay.
the first guy calls in my tag, suddenly it’s smiles and handshakes and we apologize to each other and I race for home.
The moral of the story: STOP CARRYING AIRSOFT GUNS! I’m not sure who else does other than The Eye but guys it’s just too big of a risk.
If I twitched the wrong way, BANG! right on the spot! I think what is really bothering me about this whole thing is that we have all accepted we might get killed doing this. It’s a possibility (Hell maybe a inevitability) but I NEVER thought I would get shot by a cop! Never! John Q. Public views us as odd anyway, odd with guns is a receipt for disaster.
I’ve been discussing Green Laser Technology with Prime & Chameleon and I think this is the way we need to go. It’s a lot less offensive looking and just as good of a weapon.
Usually I’m the one who says “be safe” but tonight I’d just be being a hypocrite. I can’t believe I did something so stupid, so I’ll just say…
…Don’t repeat my mistake
SH
There’s more but just wanted to put the most interesting ones, don’t wanna be a forum hog.

another busy night.
circle city classic.
a massive gathering of african americans from across the midwest.
60,000+ people within 10 square blocks.
cops everywhere with riot gear and horses.
while investigating some trouble outside of a parking garage,we were asked to stand back from the entrance as the police went in with shot guns..i still have no idea what happened,but i heard no gun shots..another citizen was trying to get into the garage,and we began talking..within seconds he said..”hey,are you justin?”…i played it off and told him i wasn’t,of course….it was some kid i haven’t seen for years who remembered me from the performance art stuff i’d do downtown.
fuck!
well,anywho
tonight our squad got some help from the newest member of the JSJ,Kid Christ..
some guy said “oh,thank you jesus for putting all them big ass hos in my building”..we said amen and walked on..
man..one thing i’ve noticed is,black girls LOVE Mr. Silent.
he got 3 different phone numbers tonight and some girl said “i bet you tha bomb in bed”..
i about shat.
yeah bebe.
so 1nce again
peace on tha streets,dawg.
Doktor DiscorD