Archives July 2011

Remember last Summer I did a Blog called “Sometimes the only satisfaction you get is that you tried.”? Where I pulled over on the bayside in the Supermobile to try & help a family stranded in a minivan & nothing worked or went right? Well today I pulled over to help a Lady & her Kid with a Blown out tire & everything went textbook. The Jack fit, The nuts came off & went on fine, here spare was flat, my compressor filled it. She was on the way. Perfect.
It happens every now and then
I just wish these thing didn’t always have to happen with a 110 degree heat index.
 

Capt Black
 

 
Obama supporters hear growing grumbling in once euphoric ranks.
 
America’s first Black president and progressive champion has had his superhero image tarnished of late.
 
Epic joblessness and malaise form potent political Kryptonite.
 
Republican Congressional opposition rivals that of any comic book arch villain and his followers.
 
He leapt tall historic barriers in a single bound- a fact even hyper partisan foes readily concede. However, the national day dream where he would bend a broken economy back into shape now teeters on psychic life support.
 
Obama’s superhero image isn’t totally moribund. Black voters cling tenaciously to his imaginary cape despite crushing unemployment figures. Other minorities and Independents have likewise not chosen the Phanton Zone option thus far regarding his presidency.
 
The President’s superhero image is giving way to more terrestrial realizations that the change his campaign promised still hasn’t arrived.
 
That said, 2012 will decide if America still considers Obama its superhero. For creative activists the lesson is as plain as graphic novel pages: never promise too much and do what you promise.
 
NADRA ENZI AKA CAPT BLACK promotes finding your “super” through creative crime prevention; homeless outreach and political advocacy. (504) 214-3082  

Originally posted: http://www.wgal.com/news/28521537/detail.html
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Superheroes are strolling the streets of Harrisburg.Formed six months ago, the Keystone Crusaders help out around Harrisburg by handing out food and water to the homeless, picking up trash and keeping the city clean.”It’s the right thing to do. We find ourselves in some hard times. People find themselves needing help. Being superheroes inspires people to do good things and be helpful people,” Commonwealth, a Keystone Crusader, said.”People realize their love for this city. People are starting to pick up things that you’re so used to seeing. I think we’re actually making quite a difference,” Vigil, a Keystone Crusader, said.Vigilance is the group’s newest member.To learn more about the Keystone Crusaders, visit their website.

Originally posted: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/07/superheroes_hbo_document_denver_wall_creeper.php
By Joel Warner
Real-life superheroes, those brave (and some would say foolhardy) folks who strap on costumes and battle evil wherever they can find it, are reaching media saturation. They’ve become a staple of nightly news stations, scored a lengthy shout-out in Rolling Stone, and one of them, a lone soul who goes by the Wall Creeper, was profiled in these very pages. Next up? Superheroes, a new documentary film by Michael Barnett, to premiere on HBO on August 8.
Barnett, part of the Denver- and San Francisco-based production company Rehab, spent a year traveling around the country filming masked vigilantes — in particular Thanatos in Vancouver, Mr. Xtreme in San Diego, Dark Guardian and Life in New York, and Zetaman in Portland. The resulting film, which was a favorite at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival in Park City Utah, goes above and beyond the typical tongue-in-cheek fluff pieces on the matter. As Barnett told the Seattle Weekly:

Our first approach was to try and make people realize that each person is sort of eccentric in their own way, and they have their own reasons for doing what they do. It’s not a rational thing to do, to put on a costume and walk around a dangerous neighborhood…The other thing is showing their situation in life. Quite a few of them don’t have the resources to do what they do. But they want to help their community. Some of them were sad — financially, personally, and just in general. But it’s showing that out of that darkness they could rise above and try to do something good. It’s not all cookies and rainbows, though, it’s profoundly sad and tragic on a certain level.

Unfortunately, those hoping to catch a glimpse of Denver’s own superhero, the Wall Creeper, are bound to be disappointed. Rumor has it that the Wall Creeper has been inactive for some time now. Still, maybe sooner or later the Wall Creeper or some other local legend will soon step out from the shadows, ready to confront evil and score some face time on premium cable.

Ox baker, World famous pro Wrestler speaks to Superhero about his experiences working on “Escape from NY” . How he got the part is a real shocker.