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I got a message tonight from a young lady who wanted me to give her some advice, as her fiance wanted to become a real life superhero..  Unfortunately, she only accepts messages from friends and only allows people to be her friend if they know her last name.  MySpace is funny sometimes.
None the less, I wanted to respond and, maybe this creates an interesting opportunity to share this response with others.  So whereever Ahna is, I hope she gets a chance to read this blog.
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Hello Ahna,
First, don’t panic.  For many men, this is an evolution of their desire to help the world. So, the good news is, your fiance has a good and giving heart.
The second thing is … well … maybe it would be better if my wife just told you how she feels and lives with me.
Hi, I’m CP’s wife… I have to admit, I take it all with a grain of salt.  I love my husband and I want him to be happy and this helps him achieve that.  Mind you, he doesn’t dress up in tights, lurk inalleys and go fight crime. No one should be doing that in real life.  He is more about social awareness, creating programs for community awareness (like a neighborhood watch type thing) and using the costume to gain awareness to his pro social message.  When it comes to the whole “Real Lifer’s” who go out every night looking for trouble I sort of ignore it all.  CP does volunteer with the local police force so he seems to have found a great way to do it all.  For me, as long as he is safe and always comes home to his family.  I support him. 😉 Wishing you the best.
Prime again.
So there you go.  Have your fiance contact me if you’d like.  If you are worried about his safety, well then he does need to talk to me.  RLSHers are not about lurking in dark alleys and taking down drug dealers.  They should be the eyes and ears for law enforcement.  They are not law enforcement officials. Best they/he/we always remember that..  We are about (well, the good ones anyway) finding ways to wake up the world and sending out a message that the heart of a hero lies in everyone.
I hope that helps.  Good luck and write back if you’d liek to hear more.
Best,
Prime
 

Entomo
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Agent of Balance.
Posted 14/05/2008 07:54:52 PM
***Name Edited Out***,
YOU are taking MySpace too seriously, NOT me.
I’m busy with my Superheroic activity (which is everything but a “delusion” – actually, I’m currently going out, in the streets, doing the “dirty job”).
1- Me and Tothian are friends as much as me and Zetaman used to be friends. I DO NOT delete people because Tothian told me to do so… I do whatever I choose to do, above laws, conventions, perspectives. It’s about instinct and… BALANCE. I do whatever I want, baby.
Tothian is just a collegue – I know his dark spots and good aspects. I can say the same for Zeta, less or more.
So much for the history.
It was Zetaman to delete me from his friends list, and I added him again… because I consider him as being one of the best collegues out of there. End of the story.
2- The HERO LINKS fiasco happened because I didn’t like the management of that MySpace profile page. A female troll attacked Master Legend, and HERO LINKS was going to be “used” as well.
STILL, it’s just a MySpace profile page. Who cares.
3- FEMALE anatomy is the only thing I know beyond Superheroics. I could make a bad joke on you, EASILY, but I’m way too “gentleman” to do so. Rejoice.
I failed to recognize you because I mentioned my three collegues… you’re just an host, and NOT a Real Life Superhero yet (I didn’t say “Superheroine” for a reason, take care).
People usually hate you. I cannot blame them, my kitty.
I INJECT JUSTICE.
—————– Originale Messaggio—————-
Da: Apocalypse Meow
Data: 14 mag 2008, 17.05
I delete you for reasons known to me, very real reasons. You are a sell-out,Entomo. You delete other people too, whenever you get the idea that you should. You delete people from Hero Links. So that’s the pot calling the kettle black, is it not? You take myspace too seriously, you do everything a certain person tells you to because you fear losing the superficial relationships you believe that you have formed.
Why would I accept you as a friend when you are not even capable of recognizing me as a host of the Alternates Radio Show? I am the host, Entomo. ‘Zeta, Zero, and Null’, as you call them, are my friends and co-hosts. I guess I am missing a certain part of the male anatomy, and that is the reason you fail to recognize me.
You’re a tool, Entomo. Get bent.
Apocalypse Meow
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“I inject justice.”
Nyx
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Mess. You. Up.
Posted 14/05/2008 09:05:55 PM
God dammit, I didn’t want to know her name too. Ugh.
Tremble in the face of the Wall Creeper!
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 14/05/2008 09:32:18 PM
Don’t let it get to you, Entomo. I still think you’re cool and badass.
Stay motivated. You’re going to save the world.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 15/05/2008 03:18:43 AM
Quote :
Tothian wrote : Don’t let it get to you, Entomo. I still think you’re cool and badass.
Stay motivated. You’re going to save the world.
Tothian,
Apocalypse B*tch is an irrilevant detail.
My mission is holy.
“I inject justice.”
master legend
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i destoy evil
Posted 15/05/2008 04:17:57 AM
only the true will be left standing here and you are a true monument my great friend Entomo.
master legend
Black Arrow
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Challenge Everything.
Posted 15/05/2008 08:00:39 AM
Quote :
Nyx wrote : God dammit, I didn’t want to know her name too. Ugh.
Ditto.
Trust no one.
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 15/05/2008 11:08:08 AM
Quote :
master legend wrote : only the true will be left standing here and you are a true monument my great friend Entomo.
We were born to save the world, my friend, plain and simple.
Nyx and Arrow, kick Apocalypse’s fat a** and let’s move forward all together.
“I inject justice.”
Dreizehn
Posts : 1069
13
Posted 15/05/2008 01:18:55 PM
Quote :
Nyx wrote : God dammit, I didn’t want to know her name too. Ugh.
yeah… same
Unlucky are you, who have found 13…
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 15/05/2008 02:45:52 PM
I edited her name out.
Do not post stuff that shows people’s secret identities.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 15/05/2008 07:06:43 PM
Tothian,
She’s not “one of us”. She’s nothing.
“I inject justice.”
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 15/05/2008 07:07:36 PM
Entomo,
I know she’s not one of us. But think of it as like an unwritten rule that heroes and villains do not expose each other’s real names. And if they do, they’re wrong.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 15/05/2008 07:55:25 PM
You were right on her. Nostrum too.
Zetaman is just a puppet in her hands.
Sad.
“I inject justice.”
Anax
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Carpe Noctem
Posted 15/05/2008 11:50:33 PM
… and then she farted.
A life lived in fear is a life not worth living.
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 16/05/2008 06:19:49 AM
Quote :
Anax wrote : … and then she farted.
What an horror movie.
“I inject justice.”
Hero-Gear.net
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Posts : 2159
We have what it takes to be a
HERO!!
Posted 16/05/2008 08:22:36 AM
See, I could’ve given her whole name, but I didn’t. I’m just cool that way and now no one else has to share that.
LOL
Jack
Jack
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Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 16/05/2008 05:24:04 PM
Quote :
Hero-Gear.net wrote : See, I could’ve given her whole name, but I didn’t. I’m just cool that way and now no one else has to share that.
LOL
Jack
Well said, Jack. Well said.
“I inject justice.”
knight owl
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Ad Finem Fidelis
Posted 16/05/2008 10:07:00 PM
are tothian, master legend, and i the only ones on the HN who actually called into the alternates show last night?
(OvO) Aspire to Inspire before you Expire…
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 16/05/2008 10:44:22 PM
Probably.
Heh. Good times.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2700
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 08:49:45 AM
Quote :
knight owl wrote : are tothian, master legend, and i the only ones on the HN who actually called into the alternates show last night?
REALLY? What a disappointment.
Tothian… Tothian… Tothian… you talk tough.
Apocalypse Meow attacked me because I’m Tothian’s friend. She’s an enemy. If ‘HEROES NETWORK’ will keep supporting her, I’d forced to stop my affiliation with this place and Tothian himself.
I’m not joking.
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“I inject justice.”
Antithesis
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“An action is morally right
if the consequences of that action
are more favorable than
unfavorable to everyone except the
agent.”
Posted 17/05/2008 11:31:07 AM
I don’t see anyone supporting her.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote :
Tothian wrote : I’m Fucking Nostrum.
Entomo
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Posts : 2702
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 11:49:40 AM
Quote :
Antithesis wrote : I don’t see anyone supporting her.
Tothian, Master Legend and Knight Owl at her stupid radio show. How do you call that?
I totally revised my top friend list. No more factions anymore. No more collegues who ignore me and/or don’t leave comments on my MySpace profile page. FUCK THEM. No more “Entomo Mr. Community”. I’m done with it.
I’m going to save the world… by myself.
I INJECT JUSTICE.
“I inject justice.”
Antithesis
Posts : 543
“An action is morally right
if the consequences of that action
are more favorable than
unfavorable to everyone except the
agent.”
Posted 17/05/2008 11:52:38 AM
Then go inject justice. Who was i who always said “deeds not words?”
Oh yeah, that was you.
You want to get serious? JUST DO IT. You want to make a change? JUST MAKE IT.
We all know that if you really want to, you can do it.
So go ahead and stop being Mr.Community.
Go save the world.
Go inject justice.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote :
Tothian wrote : I’m Fucking Nostrum.
Entomo
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Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 11:57:01 AM
Antithesis, my friend,
I’ve always been serious. “DEEDS, NOT WORDS”, forever. I just thought networking activity would have expanded the movement, thus giving people a choice… giving world an hope. I was partially wrong.
It’s just a silly MySpace profile page, I pretty much know that.
I’ve been patrolling in the streets, FOR REAL. That’s what really matters to me.
I’m now realizing there are a lot of opportunistic people among Superheroes… my so-called “collegues”.
No more “Mr. Community”. Time to do it by myself.
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“I inject justice.”
Antithesis
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“An action is morally right
if the consequences of that action
are more favorable than
unfavorable to everyone except the
agent.”
Posted 17/05/2008 12:42:08 AM
I’ve never doubted that you were serious or real. All I’m saying is that if you want to make a change, just make it. I don’t like it when (and I’m guilty of this myself) people post about how they’re going to make a difference and start getting more serious and then nothing happens. Keep up the deeds-not-words and you’ll be an inspiration to all of us.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote :
Tothian wrote : I’m Fucking Nostrum.
Entomo
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Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 01:56:17 PM
You have a point, actually.
“I inject justice.”
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 04:17:45 PM
Entomo,
I called up with Master Legend to try to establish peace within the community. I think it helped a little.
I’m still on your side. Always.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 04:52:14 PM
Quote :
Tothian wrote : Entomo,
I called up with Master Legend to try to establish peace within the community.
Tothian:
THAT people hate you. They hate you. They hate Master Legend too.
They believe to be the “good guys”. We’re supposed to be the “bad” ones.
FUCK THEM. There’s no alternative way.
I’m done.
“I inject justice.”
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 06:45:53 PM
Entomo,
What do you mean by being done? I thought by being done you weren’t going to deal with that stuff anymore?
There are things that we all should know-
– In the heart of a hero, there is no room for hatred for people who do wrong. Only hatred for the wrong people do. Show forgiveness where it is asked for, when honestly asked for.
– There is no time for internet flame wars. Only time to save the world.
– None of us can save the world alone. We can only do it together, united. That’s one of the many reasons I formed the Heroes Network.
– I hate having to take sides with people. I am open to being friends with anyone. But I won’t give up being who I am or doing what I do just to satisy anyone.
– I know exactly who hates me, even the people who think I don’t know. And… I don’t care. Hatred is their flaw. Loyalty is my strength.
– If someone’s actions are truly unjust, and in the wrong, then it would be appropriate to stand against them.
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Tothian
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Nostrum
Posts : 870
“So act that your principle of
action might safely be made a law
for the whole world.”
Posted 17/05/2008 07:27:04 PM
Entomo –
Here’s an idea: If you are going to do this alone, then leave this community. If you want to get something done, then stop bitching about it and stop wasting time on the internet.
Until I see you take these steps, you are just blowing smoke up our asses.
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
– John Stuart Mill
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 07:48:00 PM
Quote :
Nostrum wrote : Entomo –
Here’s an idea: If you are going to do this alone, then leave this community. If you want to get something done, then stop bitching about it and stop wasting time on the internet.
Until I see you take these steps, you are just blowing smoke up our asses.
Nostrum,
Since either Zetaman and Tothian turned out to be major disappointments, and their “factions” aren’t far from them, I must confess that you could be right.
And I generally hate to admit that Nostrum is right.
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“I inject justice.”
Entomo
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Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 07:51:09 PM
Tothian, your words sound FAKE. Stop preaching like a priest.
I haven’t much time to waste on this flaming shit BUT… Apocalypse Meow offended me, mainly because I was a friend of yours. STILL, you joined the bitch’s show in the name of vanity and “popularity”.
Game over, Tothian.
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–Last edited by Entomo on 2008-05-17 19:58:07 —
“I inject justice.”
Antithesis
Posts : 547
“An action is morally right
if the consequences of that action
are more favorable than
unfavorable to everyone except the
agent.”
Posted 17/05/2008 07:51:28 PM
Quote :
Entomo wrote : I must confess that you could be right. And I generally hate to admit that Nostrum is right.
That’s the thing about Nostrum. He’s almost always right, but in general what he’s right about is something we don’t want to beliebe is true.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quote :
Tothian wrote : I’m Fucking Nostrum.
Tothian
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Posts : 7953
The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 08:01:11 PM
Entomo,
Well to be honest, I did not know the full situation. I didn’t pay too much attention to it.
Why do you even care about this? None of this crap is even important. You are making mountains out of mole-hills.
I didn’t even talk to Apoclypse Meow on that show. And I don’t think me going on that show had anything to do with me being popular or not.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 08:04:05 PM
And I never speak lies. If I don’t feel like saying the truth, I’ll say nothing at all.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 08:10:43 PM
If we’re supposed to be a squad of some sort, then we must act as TRUE teammates. I’m a natural born leader and pretty much know the rules of the game. If the enemy hits one of my soldiers, I backfire and kick his ass.
That’s my way.
Tothian, I don’t “hate” you, nor I “hate” Zetaman. I still consider you as being friends of mine.
I’m accustomed to disappointment when coming to people.
My whole point is: the RLSH community has turned its back on me. That’s how I feel. There’s no more respect.
BUT…
… I don’t need the community to be a Real Life Superhero. I just need myself.
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“I inject justice.”
Tothian
admin
Posts : 7953
The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 08:19:44 PM
Entomo,
I apologize if I did anything to offend or disappoint you. I had no idea it meant that much to you.
But still, we can’t go around not doing things just to worry about what others will think.
This community has not turned it’s back on you. I’m still your friend and colleague, and I would take a bullet for you anytime. Just don’t let stupid, unimportant little things bother you. They don’t matter.
Where-as we don’t need a community to operate and be RLSH’s, we need them for other things. And it’s good to know we’re not alone in doing this – that there’s others out there like us – who we can look forward to teaming up with.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 08:30:19 PM
I forgot to remind everyone that:
1- I fucked up Ration Reality to defend Zetaman.
2- I fucked up Jerk X to defend Master Legend.
3- I fucked up Beach Shadow to defend Master Legend.
4- I fucked up Phoenix to defend Earth Agent Superman.
5- I fucked up the ENTIRE WORLD to defend Tothian.
6- I fucked up the trolls to defend my collegues.
… and when Superhero set a new MySpace profile page, he hasn’t even cared to send me a request or leave a fucking comment to show world he knows “who’s the real deal out of there”. For instance. Wow.
NO more Mr. Community. No more.
“I inject justice.”
Phoenix
admin
Posts : 2551
“Born of the ashes…”
Posted 17/05/2008 08:39:52 PM
You fucked up what? You better mean a city in Arizona…
Phoenix
Vice President, Heroes Network
“my name is Tothian, and I destroy punchlines”
Tothian
admin
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The Sword Saint
Posted 17/05/2008 08:40:58 PM
Entomo,
I’m thankful for the times you’ve defended me. And I’ve defended you also.
Don’t worry about un-important stuff. You keep saying you’re not worried about all this, and just want to save the world, but you’re complaining about it.
Send Superhero a friend request, he’ll accept you, then comment each other.
I’m going out on patrol right now. If you want to sit here on the forum and complain, so be it. I say go out and patrol. You’ll feel better.
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
moderator
Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 08:54:49 PM
Tothian,
It’s not just Superhero. Everyone acted strange in recent time. But I don’t care anymore.
Let’s see what happens. Another glorious episode of the ALTERNATES radio show featuring Tothian, Zetaman, Jerk X, Phoenix, Nostrum, Master Legend, Agent Null, Nyx, Phantom Zero and Deizehn? Great. Go for it, collegues. Real Life Supervanity.
“I inject justice.”
Entomo
moderator
Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 17/05/2008 08:59:32 PM
Apocalypse Trash. It’s not just a silly wordplay on the bitch’s name. It depicts the present time of the movement.
My best wishes for your rejuvenated ALL-AMERICAN GUYS community, “collegues”.
See you in the streets. Where vanity has no place and only the strongest can survive… and PROTECT citizens.
I inject justice.
“I inject justice.”
knight owl
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Posts : 1239
Ad Finem Fidelis
Posted 17/05/2008 09:18:10 PM
entomo, this is the internet. some of us have lives outside of it. sounds like you do too. don’t take it as an insult. be a friendly as possible. a person simply cannot make everyone love them. use these sites for what they were designed for: social networking.
no more. & no less, colleague.
i may have called their show, but that does not at all make you and i (or tothian or master legend, for that matter) any less of a friend to you. if you have a minor quarrel regarding a friend request with some other person, that doesn’t automatically make those people OUR enemy.
and to continue to bash people for something as inconsequential to actual hero-ing as myspace comments or top 10 friends, that will only serve to drive more animosity between you and others who your share a mutual respect.
think about it, friend. surely you can see this internet bickering nonsense is below you.
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(OvO) Aspire to Inspire before you Expire…
Dreizehn
Posts : 1075
13
Posted 18/05/2008 00:13:18 AM
Quote :
Entomo wrote : Tothian,
It’s not just Superhero. Everyone acted strange in recent time. But I don’t care anymore.
Let’s see what happens. Another glorious episode of the ALTERNATES radio show featuring Tothian, Zetaman, Jerk X, Phoenix, Nostrum, Master Legend, Agent Null, Nyx, Phantom Zero and Deizehn? Great. Go for it, collegues. [g]Real Life Supervanity.
…?
first off… I don’t like being thrown into things without being notified..
secondly… what the fuck is “The Alternates”???
Fortunately it seems, I have been blessed with having a life.. and doing patrols… so I have no clue as to what is going on at all…
… gonna go back to doin mah damn thang.
ya’ll sit around the campfire, roast your s’mores… and make yourselves feel better.
But the truth is, if you have a problem, don’t mope around the internet… go out and fucking do something… jesus i hate the bitching.
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Unlucky are you, who have found 13…
Phoenix
admin
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“Born of the ashes…”
Posted 18/05/2008 00:18:15 AM
Yeah, because that post isn’t bitching at all (rolls eyes).
We love getting on each other’s cases. And getting on each other’s cases for getting on each other’s cases.
And yeah, I know I just did the same, but that’s a point made in of itself.
Phoenix
Vice President, Heroes Network
“my name is Tothian, and I destroy punchlines”
Dreizehn
Posts : 1075
13
Posted 18/05/2008 00:50:13 AM
hahahaha….
Unlucky are you, who have found 13…
Nyx
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Posts : 1071
Mess. You. Up.
Posted 18/05/2008 01:18:09 AM
Quote :
Entomo wrote : Tothian,
It’s not just Superhero. Everyone acted strange in recent time. But I don’t care anymore.
Let’s see what happens. Another glorious episode of the ALTERNATES radio show featuring Tothian, Zetaman, Jerk X, Phoenix, Nostrum, Master Legend, Agent Null, Nyx, Phantom Zero and Deizehn? Great. Go for it, collegues. Real Life Supervanity.
Uh….the what, now? First off, I don’t even want to be on the same PHONELINE as Joshua, so the chances of me ever calling in on the Alternates radio show are slim to none.
Secondly, well it just looks like you’re batshit insane at the moment. Seriously bug boy, I respect you; and I hope that you realize that before you’ve severed your ties to too many people.
Tremble in the face of the Wall Creeper!
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 18/05/2008 04:18:49 AM
Quote :
Dreizehn wrote :
Fortunately it seems, I have been blessed with having a life..
ya’ll sit around the campfire, roast your s’mores… and make yourselves feel better.
But the truth is, if you have a problem, don’t mope around the internet… go out and fucking do something… jesus i hate the bitching.
So you got a life. Oh well. Good for you. I bet even Joshua X claims to get a life. Granted.
I’m not talking about INTERNET. Who the hell cares about Internet and its fictional world. I have a very interesting life — either as civilian and as Superhero. VERY INTERESTING, to say the least. I can’t explain the details.
I’m just stating a truth related to this movement. And stop acting as Nostrum’s little sister, Dreizehn. Stereotyped.
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“I inject justice.”
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 18/05/2008 04:20:17 AM
Quote :
Nyx wrote :
Seriously bug boy, I respect you; and I hope that you realize that before you’ve severed your ties to too many people.
So are you saying I’m wrong on Tothian, Zetaman and their little games? Wow, you’re very smart, Nyx. Are you a detective?
“I inject justice.”
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 18/05/2008 04:28:10 AM
… and we’re not talking about INTERNET, but a radio show. If you have the balls, call Apocalypse Meow and kick her in the ass.
I bet you can’t do that. Game over.
“I inject justice.”
Tothian
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The Sword Saint
Posted 18/05/2008 04:26:39 AM
This has got to be the most retarded, pointless thread I’ve ever seen.
Now because I love how I just spent hours patrolling while people were sitting online talking crap about me, I demand to know one thing or I’m locking and deleting this thread.
WTF did I do to betray Entomo? I went on a radio show, to try to fix a dispute with people?
Tothian
President, Heroes Network
Entomo
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Posts : 2718
Agent of Balance.
Posted 18/05/2008 04:30:26 AM
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Tothian wrote : This has got to be the most retarded, pointless thread I’ve ever seen.
Now because I love how I just spent hours patrolling while people were sitting online talking crap about me, I demand to know one thing or I’m locking and deleting this thread.
WTF did I do to betray Entomo? I went on a radio show, to try to fix a dispute with people?
Don’t delete the thread. This is freedom. If HEROES NETWORK is truly based on freedom, then let everyone read my MEANINGFUL points.
“I inject justice.”
Entomo
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Posted 18/05/2008 04:31:40 AM
Sitting online? Yesterday I did a patrol. Don’t forget “our” hours are different, I live in Europe.
“I inject justice.”
Nostrum
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“So act that your principle of
action might safely be made a law
for the whole world.”
Posted 18/05/2008 04:39:34 AM
Super vanity?
This coming from the guy who does more Google vanity searches than anyone else in the community?
“OMG colleagues! Look what this article says about me! Look what this web site says about me! Look what these people on this message board are saying about me!”
Don’t you dare accuse me of being associated with that group, and don’t you dare accuse me of vanity.
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
– John Stuart Mill
Entomo
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Posted 18/05/2008 04:45:35 AM
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Nostrum wrote : Super vanity?
This coming from the guy who does more Google vanity searches than anyone else in the community?
GOOGLE is there. What’s wrong with it? I know I’m the real deal… there’s nothing wrong in reading what they say about me in the spare time. It’s not vanity at all.
I seriously hope you’re not going to band together with people like Apocalypse Meow. Let’s see.
“I inject justice.”
Antithesis
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“An action is morally right
if the consequences of that action
are more favorable than
unfavorable to everyone except the
agent.”
Posted 18/05/2008 11:10:48 AM
THIS is why I said “if you’re going to make a change, just DO IT.” Because if you sit around preaching, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! I don’t know what other bug crawled up your ass, Entomo, but all you’re doing is casting blame on peoplr who’ve done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG.
WTF is all this about? You’re angry because we won’t go stick up for you against Apocalypse Meow on Zetaman’s show? Go fight your own battles.
You know why nobody is doing that? Because nobody cares about her. We all got over her a LONG time ago. You’re letting your anger get the best of you and it’s apparently driving you insane. Nobody’s banding together with Apoc Meow, we’re just not giving her the satisfaction of caring a shred about her.
And I have to agree with Nostrum, You’ve definitely had your share of supervain moments, but if you’re implying that you’re going to make a change now, then I repeat:
JUST FUCKING DO IT!
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Posted 18/05/2008 12:19:59 AM
I agree. If you’re done with all the crap, be done with it. If you don’t see the merits of the online community, there’s the door…
Phoenix
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“my name is Tothian, and I destroy punchlines”
Entomo
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Posted 18/05/2008 12:22:33 AM
Antithesis,
Look at the headlines, my friend. This will be my year. And I’d be an “individual” Real with no need to associate my Superheroic name to any RLSH “faction”.
One thing is sure: no fucking vanity-searching radio shows, at least not those led by FatZeta and his lesbo companion.
And they will turn their back on Tothian, Master Legend and Superhero as soon as they can. I will laugh in the shadows.
“I inject justice.”
Entomo
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Posted 18/05/2008 12:25:48 AM
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Phoenix wrote : I agree. If you’re done with all the crap, be done with it. If you don’t see the merits of the online community, there’s the door…
I’m ready to open the door, Phoenix.
Good luck with your newly-found teammates: ZetaNoPersonality, the Fat-ass Lesbo, Null, Jerk X and Phantom 0. Good luck. You’ll need that.
“I inject justice.”
master legend
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Posted 18/05/2008 01:06:25 PM
Entomo , pleasr listen to the show . i got on it to defend all the real life super heroes and to put jerk x in his place. you will be proud of me i think if you heard the show. believe me it was no social call , it was a phone fight in my case and i think i put them all in there place. listen to the show because i will never be on it again. also i would never betray you, you are one of my greatest super hero friends. don’t let there venom infect you , that is what that batch of rejects want.
master legend
Entomo
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Posted 18/05/2008 01:34:58 PM
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master legend wrote : Entomo , pleasr listen to the show . i got on it to defend all the real life super heroes and to put jerk x in his place. you will be proud of me i think if you heard the show. believe me it was no social call , it was a phone fight in my case and i think i put them all in there place. listen to the show because i will never be on it again. also i would never betray you, you are one of my greatest super hero friends. don’t let there venom infect you , that is what that batch of rejects want.
What can I say? Good for you if you showed some serious balls there.
Next time… call her and kick her fat ass by my name.
I can’t do that, I live in Italy.
I feel sorry for ZeroNoPersonality, but he must like to play the woman in their sexual intercourses. (horrid).
“I inject justice.”
master legend
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Posted 18/05/2008 01:36:40 PM
also so everyone else knows . i was alerted they were talking trash about Tothian and myself , a few others i heard . so that is when we called in to say our peace . after all many people here it and i didn’t want a one sided story fooling many once again.just as you Entomo , i get sick of the way things have been going on here. at this time i am recovering from a surgery but will soon be back out in the city streets or where ever. i will still be here for those who are my friends .
master legend
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Posted 18/05/2008 01:40:12 PM
In the while that you’re recovering, just kick her fat ass. Show her what a true man can accomplish. (well, she’s not into men anyway).
“I inject justice.”
 

By Agent Null
So, as I have already written about, I went out on my first patrol with Zetaman earlier. While we were doing our thing, we were talking (what? You think we did everything in a gallows silence?), and we discussed ideas, plans for the future, and so on.
But it all came back to the same topic: How do we better present ourselves in a way that demonstrates to the public that we are not just doing this as some sort of childish live-action role playing or for the “lulz”? How can we as members of the RLS subculture prove that we can be more than just silly brats in costume acting out wish-fulfillment fantasy?
Well…I have come to find what I believe to be the answer. It was right in front of my face the whole time, as luck would have it:
Look, very few are going to like what I’m going to have to say here, as it flies into the face of what we know as convention. But then all truths begin as blasphemies. And as I am not a stranger to being strung up for the sin of telling the truth (and not making it funny) with regards to this subculture, I’ve no problems outlining the ways in which this subculture needs to change.
First of all, we need to get away from the comic book mindset that helped create us. As loathe as I am to point this out, comic books are not real. The situations, societies, and attitudes that shape the world of superhero fiction simply does not apply in the real world. Here, in the world where we live, there are very few true heroes just as there are a scarce amount of truly evil villains. In this world, black and white are simply colours; they are not moral absolutes. Calling ourselves ANYTHING other than “Real Life Superheroes” would be a huge step in the right direction.
Second of all, we need to be more transparent. Think about it: you decide to become a costumed crusader. Now, during the course of making this decision, you decide to set up a webpage and forum in an effort to reach out to other like-minded individuals. And then, you make the forum private, with membership upon approval. Sooo…doesn’t that defeat your purpose? If you TRULY want to help the public, you would not set up a place for discussion that they cannot read and discourse with you. To even entertain the notion suggests something to hide. And most likely, they will believe that you are hiding that face that you really haven’t done anything of note, nor will you ever. Judging from what I’ve read on those forums, I also believe this to be the case. Also, if you are the type who is sensitive to any flames you may receive from the public you are trying to reach out to (and you will), perhaps this is not the line of work for you after all.
Third, we need to be more exclusive. Look, one of the biggest issues within this subculture stems primarily from an appalling lack of standards. Are we really that desperate for validation that we should accept anybody who comes along with a MySpace profile and a few good (if mainly false) tales of derring-do? I should truly hope not. I hate to go back to this, but in one discussion I had, I pointed out that our subculture would even accept John Wayne Gacy if his icon pic was of him in his clown costume and he claimed to “destroy evil”. I still believe this to be the case. On this same topic, if one of us is shown to be less than they claim to be and it can be proven beyond all doubt, then they should be cast out from the subculture altogether if they will not explain or justify themselves. No other society would allow people of this nature to remain with them. Why should we?
Fourth, we need to be honest about ourselves. This goes toward transparency, but it still bears mention nevertheless. Look, I do not believe a majority of those within this group are as active in fighting crime as they would have us believe, if they are at all. If one fights crime in the manner in which these people claim to, and they have not been killed or arrested for vigilantism then fantastic. More power to them. But prove it. Show some documentation, whether it be a police report or a newspaper article or a link to a news broadcast. If one cannot, they should either be silent about it, or they should not be surprised when such claims fall under heavy investigation and scrutiny. The basic rule should apply: proof or it didn’t happen.
Fifth, while I understand the affectation towards maintaining a secret identity while on the job, the fact remains- YOU ARE NOT YOUR CODENAME. At the end of my day for example, I’m not Agent Null. I am me. Agent Null is nothing more than a symbol I gave myself. Anyone can be Agent Null.
Sixth, I know goes back to point #4. But here it is: If you actually are fighting crime, busting drug dealers and muggers and the like, and this can be proven; once again I say that’s fantastic…But you have changed NOTHING. Zip, Zilch, Zero. How is that, you ask? It, like so many other answers I present here, is quite simple. You change nothing because not once have you managed to combat the REASONS crimes occur. In fact, I have a crisp clean sheet of paper with President Lincoln’s mugshot printed on it that says you never once gave that any real thought. You know something guys? The internet is a fantastic place, full of magic, wonder and knowledge. Perhaps if you devoted even a half hour of the time you would normally use to talk about which non-existant spells to use while fighting demons that aren’t there or which piece of armour would look cooler on your MySpace profile to looking at the real sociological motivations behind crime, you would be so much more effective at PREVENTING crime from happening in the first place. Now, I am not so naive as to assume that we can prevent future crimes from occuring merely by dint of our efforts in tackling real issues (for once). But you know, in the end, that is a more noble end than simply beating up criminals.
Seventh, we need to be active in the cities we live in. By this, I do not simply mean we need to be constantly patrolling the streets in search of ciminals to thwart. Far from it. Instead, we need to show EVERYONE from the rich to the poor, the old to the young, that we care about them and want to be able to succeed on their own. We need to be present in soup kitchens or other charities. We need to be seen handing out necessary survival items to those who lack them. We need to be the first to lead drives to aid those who have suffered losses. If we have first aid and cpr training, we need to teach others to do the same thing. If we are martial artists, we need to teach others to protect themselves. We need to not selfishly hoard our abilities to sate our own ego. We need to demonstrate and teach those abilities to those who wish to learn them.
And finally, we need to be proactive in the above methods. Sitting here and debating these topics will get us nowhere. What I have stated here is nothing less than the whole truth of the matter. The more we sit here and debate the points to death, the less we are out there, doing what needs doing.
And the less we are out there, the closer we creep to carving our epitath as a punchline in pop culture history.
Toodles!
-AN

By Paul Constant
They hide their true identities behind elaborate masks and costumes, patrolling the streets of downtown Salt Lake City in groups of two and three. People react to them in various ways: Older folks tend to ignore them. Drunken young adults want to pose with them for photos. Teenagers tend to hiss, growl and shout in their general direction, while children walk right up to them and ask what they are doing. Despite the masks and secret identities, they’re completely open about their purpose.
“Inferno,” one of the newest members of the group, is unfazed by the evening chill. He passes by a group of teens. One of them shouts: “Halloween’s not over!” Inferno winces, rolls his eyes, and responds, in the bored tone of someone who’s tired of hearing the same joke over and over again, “Nope, it’s not.” A girl of about 14 breaks from the mass of tittering boys and bravely approaches Inferno. He’s wearing a red hood and tunic, thigh-high pleather boots, and a matching black pleather mask that covers his eyes and nose. She breaks the awkward silence: “Can I ask about your costume?”
Inferno nods, unconsciously touches his red goatee and answers: “I’m part of the Black Monday Society.”
The girl cocks her head. “The Black Monday Society?”
“Yeah,” Inferno begins, a little more comfortable now, getting into a well-worn groove, “We just walk around, you know, patrol the streets.”
“Like Citizens on Patrol?” adds the girl, invoking the title of the fourth Police Academy movie. Her friends seem to get the reference and break into laughter.
Inferno brightens. “Yeah. “Citizens on patrol.”
“Cool!” says the girl, and despite the fact that her male friends are still hanging back—way back—and giggling, she seems to be genuinely happy about the idea. Inferno smiles and hands her a business card.
“We have a Website,” he says. “Look us up, it’ll tell you more about what we do. That’s pretty much what it’s about. It’s a lot of fun.”
“OK,” she says, waving goodbye with the card and running back to her friends, “Have fun!”
“You, too,” Inferno says. “Bye.”
And then he goes back to patrolling the streets, keeping his eye out for danger, wherever it lurks.
We Need Another Hero

The Black Monday Society started five years ago, when a Salt Lake City-area tattoo artist and lifelong comic-book fan named Dave went exploring on MySpace. “I always told my wife, even before we got married, that if I ever see a real superhero, I’m so going to be one,” he says. “Come on, just the idea of wearing a mask, going out, doing something good? Being somebody else for a little bit? Doesn’t that sound a little enthralling to you?”
After doing a search for comic-book-related fan groups, Dave happened upon the Web pages of two Indianapolis men who go by the names “Mr. Silent” and “Doktor DiscorD.” They called themselves Real Life Superheroes, and they went on patrol on the Indianapolis streets searching for wrongs to right.
“So,” Dave says, “I set up a MySpace page, made an identity for myself, just to talk to them, and it kind of evolved from there. It was really inspiring.”
Dave couldn’t believe this was happening, that his childhood obsession was taking shape, and that people all over the world were a part of it. “I went home to my wife and told her about it and she said, ‘Wow,’ and then she said, ‘Is this for real?’ and I said, ‘Yeah,’ and she said, ‘So, when do you go out?’ and I said, ‘As soon as possible.’”
Like all Real Life Superheroes, Dave, 37, uses only his first name, and he’d rather go by his character’s name anyway. His first superhero identity was “The American Corpse.” He dressed in an Israeli army gas mask, fedora and a suit and tie, much like classic DC Comics superhero The Sandman. Dave’s good friend, a very tall man with a lazy Johnny Cash drawl, says he’s “always been fascinated by ghosts and goblins and demons and things of that nature,” so he decided to call himself “Ghost.” He made a costume of a rubber Halloween skeleton mask adorned with a shock of white hair and a matching ribcage on his chest. Ghost is 32 and works in real life as a concrete finisher. Quiet and unassuming, he explains his unusual hobby by saying, “It’s every little boy’s fantasy to be a real life superhero.”
Ghost sums up his passion for the street with a comment on his blog: “Doesn’t matter how many people snicker at us. What matters is we are out there doin’ our duty for justice.”
Recounting their first night out on patrol in 2001, American Corpse and Ghost say they were standing by their car on a city street having a smoke. A Salt Lake City cop on patrol approached them and pulled over. American Corpse says he decided to slowly approach her to explain their costumes and superheroic intent. She firmly told them, “Please stand by the hood of the car.” American Corpse kept walking toward the officer, then reached into his jacket to pull out his wallet and identification. Reacting to Corpse’s decision to keep moving, the officer put her hand on her revolver and shouted, “Stand by the hood of the car, now!” American Corpse says he wasn’t even really thinking but decided to try and calm the situation by saying, “It’s OK, ma’am, don’t worry. Relax; I’m a superhero.”
The cop eventually let them move on, but the heroes claim the Black Monday Society is on the Salt Lake City Police Department’s official list of street gangs. A spokesman for the SLCPD would not confirm that statement.
When Flats Need Fixing

If a healthy number of Websites and blogs are any indication, there are hundreds of Real Life Superheroes around the world, mainly operating out of urban areas. One of the best known is “Citizen Prime,” an RLS from Phoenix. Prime is a husband, father and office worker who puts on a costume (or uniform, as the RLS community prefers) with intent to fight crime. Though Prime does carry a pair of intriguingly named “stun-knuckles” in case he has to protect himself or others, most of the work he does fits neatly within the category of good Samaritanism—flat-tire repair and making speeches to elementary-school students about the dangers of drug use. But in the past year, buoyed by increased media attention, Prime has also started a successful toy drive to help needy children.
Prime, an office worker in his 40s, has a certain charisma, the kind usually seen in community organizers and old-fashioned politicians. In conversations, he’s prone to wholesome expressions like, “Oh, my gosh,” and “Gee,” sounding like a real-life Jimmy Stewart. He vouches for the Black Monday Society, implicitly. “They’re really good guys. I’ve had contact with them for a while now, and they seem like the real deal.” Prime visited the Black Monday Society over the long winter, but—human as they were—the heroes decided it was too cold to patrol. Still, one hero wrote on his blog that “we did suit up and take some photos,” and that “more team-ups will happen when it gets a little warmer.”
New Real Life Superheroes seem to appear every day. They add their photos and biographies to Websites like RealLifeSuperheroes.com and share their thoughts on weaponry, good deeds and other topics on blogs such as Heroes Network. There’s the Justice Society of Justice, based in Indianapolis; The Boise Brigade, and, from Washington, D.C., the Capitol City Super Squad. “Zetaman” patrols the streets of Portland, Ore., wearing a utility belt loaded with a first-aid kit, a baton and a Taser, among other gadgets.
Polarman shovels the snow-covered sidewalks of Iqalulit, the capital city of Canada’s youngest province, Nunavut—located north of Quebec on Baffin Island. Entomo the Insect Man claims to protect Naples, Italy, and frequents superhero message boards with hilariously Roberto Benigni-esque broken English comments. His MySpace page boasts a mission statement: “To be a Real Life Superhero is truly the greatest deed a man can accomplish in a backwards world like this, where fiction is truer to reality than reality itself. On the other hand, the chance to fight for such a stunning planet is too significant to be turned down. Hear my buzz, fear my bite,” and it ends, as all his posts do, with his tagline: “I inject justice!”
Whole businesses have sprung up around the RLS life. Hero-Gear.net deals in costumes for Real Life Superheroes. Armories that produce chain mail and weapons for Renaissance fair actors have started to sell to the RLS community, as well. Dressing up like a superhero and going on patrol seems to be looking less like a bizarre pastime than it does a lifestyle choice, according to some of the heroes. Think teenagers going goth or animal-rights activists fervently volunteering for PETA.
The media is giddily spreading the word about RLS. Some television stations have struck a gold mine in covering regional “superteams,” packing their reports with references to Batmobiles and “Pow! Bang! Boom!” sound effects. A reporter from Rolling Stone went on patrol with the Black Monday Society last fall (though the magazine has yet to publish the story) and several filmmakers are rushing to finish documentaries about the Real Life Superhero movement. Members of The Black Monday Society claim one documentary maker told them that, to be featured in his film, they’d have to sign the rights to their superhero identities away to him. They declined. Another filmmaker and his subjects hosted a Times Square publicity stunt covered in The New York Times last October. Your Friendly Neighborhood Superhero, a recently completed documentary, is scheduled for various film festivals this spring. See RealLifeSuperhero.com for a snippet of the film.
Internet reaction to the RLS movement is mixed. RLS and superhero fans are continuously posting words of encouragement on each other’s blogs. But, as soon as a non-RLS site notices them, the general public, hidden securely behind a guise of anonymity, tears them to shreds. After a story about Silent and DiscorD appeared on comic-book writer Warren Ellis’s blog, the posters unanimously decided that RLSs were endangering themselves, if not others. One commenter, Monk Eastman, summed up the feelings this way: “I predict the following headline: ‘Oddly Dressed Virgin Found Shot 1,123 Times.’”
“A Little Gimmicky?”

Dave quickly dropped the American Corpse persona for another identity: a tights-wearing street fighter named Ferox. Ferox is reserved for Dave’s patrols farther north in Ogden. When in Salt Lake City, Dave is Insignis, a robed figure with a giant white cross across his chest. “The most easily recognizable symbol in the world is the cross,” he explains, “So what better symbol to have?” (The two names are derived from a large tattoo across his back that reads “Insignis Ferox,” Latin for “Mark of the Wild One.”)
After those first few patrols with Ghost, Insignis’ friends were quick to join them. The team grew to 13 members strong in a matter of months. The group originally patrolled on Mondays—hence the name—but “things are much more likely to happen on Fridays and Saturdays, so the Monday thing didn’t last long,” Insignis says. They stuck with the name primarily because “it sounds cool.”
New identities are common with the Black Monday Society: Inferno took his name because of a fiery temper he admits used to get him in trouble before becoming a RLS. But the 33-year-old recently decided to focus on his sense of humor by becoming “Ha!,” a clown-themed superhero.
Oni, 36, based his identity on a Japanese demon. He’s married to a woman the team calls “Mother One.” She creates most of their costumes by hand. “She’s very supportive of this,” Oni says. Most of the team, including 38-year-old occasional member “Silver Dragon,” a thin man with a thick Southern accent, are married. They say their wives are proud of them but balked at a reporter’s request to speak with the women. Earlier this year, Oni went on his first patrol with his daughter, who will take the name “Frost” as soon as she has a costume. “I was very nervous and excited at the same time;” he wrote on his blog. “I hoped that nothing would happen on her first time out. I am proud that she wants to give back to the community and help people that need it.”
The heroes say they have been spending more time in Ogden lately because of what they perceive as increased gang activity. Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey takes issue with that claim: “We have had a seven-year decline of crime in Ogden and one of the keys to that is getting the community involved. Having neighbors be vigilant and engaged is a critical ingredient to safer neighborhoods.” Godfrey adds that the Black Monday Society “fits in” with this push for community involvement. Although he finds them “a little gimmicky,” Godfrey allows that, “We will take their participation any way we can get it.” The Salt Lake City Police Department had no comment on the Black Monday Society. Lt. Paul Jaroscak, spokesman for the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Department, says he has “no knowledge or comment” regarding the group.
If the local cops are sketchy on their knowledge of the superheroes, it might be due to the group’s lack of clarity. What, exactly, does the Black Monday Society do? They talk about “helping people” and “helping the homeless.” But, on one evening this past November, the patrol’s big events included a photo session with a gaggle of drunken college students, some heckling from passersby and a thumbs-up from an enthusiastic tourist from Minneapolis, who wished there was something like this “back home.” The patrol also handed out a couple of dollars to a homeless man with the telltale facial scabs of heavy meth use.
The team contends the patrols are its work, and that members curb crime simply by being seen. And Silver Dragon says there’s proof: “I’ve heard from friends that, after we patrol a particular neighborhood, there’s no crime there for the rest of the night.” That November patrol was one of the last crime-fighting excursions of 2007. The team has laid low for the winter, declaring Salt Lake City’s long, harsh winter too cold to patrol. But they plan on taking to the streets again, now that spring has arrived.
Oni, the only member of the Black Monday Society with extensive martial-arts training, recalls one time when he confronted a drug-addled man who was abusing his mother in a city park. “The first thing we do is call the cops,” he says, “in any situation.” Most superheroes will, in fact, say the same thing. They strongly advise against getting directly involved in police calls.
After calling 911, Oni and Ghost approached the man. They say he promptly relented when confronted with men dressed as demons. Insignis also recalls a time they chased after a drunk man who was standing by the side of the road, trying to punch passing cars. The man got away, but Insignis says, laughing, “He probably won’t be doing that again anytime soon.”
Outside Salt Lake City, the superhero action is getting a little more feverish and a lot less law abiding. Rumors have spread in the RLS community that one of their own, a man known as “Nostrum,” based in Louisiana, has lost an eye doing battle with a criminal. An RLS from Florida known as “Master Legend” claims to attack evildoers, bashing garbage cans over the heads of crack fiends and kicking others with his steel-toe boots. Another man, known as “Hero,” has quit fighting crime and is taking up ultimate fighting. “There is only one thing I can always count on, one thing that will always be there and that is the fight. The fight is all I have,” he recently blogged.
The Black Monday Society has set up an office, and Oni says they are working to gain legal status as a non-profit organization. “As soon as we do that, it’ll open up a lot more doorways for us so we can start receiving money and we can help more people,” he says, adding that “I’d like to do more than just help the homeless. I’d like to start helping abused and battered women. Things like that.”
In a parking lot after the patrol, the team gathers to smoke cigarettes and share a laugh or two. Inferno refers to Insignis as “Father O’Malley,” and asks him if his sidekick’s name is “Altar Boy.” Insignis laughs it off but then snaps back on message, insisting that the Black Monday Society is seeking more than fun and fame: “Instead of being the guy on the couch saying ‘God, I wish somebody would do something,’ I get to be the guy on the couch who says, ‘Yeah, I did something!’ or, ‘At least I tried.’ No regrets, no nothing. Just pure do.”
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-6056-feature-slc-superheroes-the-black-monday-society-keeps-an-eye-out-for-street-crime-so-you-donrst-have-to.htm

ORTLAND, Ore.- It’s another dark, damp night in Portland, and for many homeless people, the bloom is off the City of Roses as they shiver out another night of unseasonably cold temperatures under bridges, in doorways and on park benches
In what many consider the bad part of town, one man steps from the shadows, armed with a stun gun, a collapsible baton, an ear-piercing air horn and pepper spray. A large white “Z” covers his tight-fitting shirt, and he steps through puddles in thick black boots.
A full-length black overcoat, fingerless black gloves, skull and crossbones belt buckle and dark goggles complete his “intimidating” outfit.
His name is Zetaman, and he’s looking for homeless people.
When he spots a group of transients, he makes his move.
“Do any of you folks need extra gloves or anything,” Zetaman asks the group as he pulls items from a backpack.
To homeless people, Zetaman is not a threat. He’s a hero, maybe even a superhero. And his fame is spreading.
Zetaman, whose real identity is a secret, is packing gloves, sandwiches and other items that will give some homeless Portland residents a degree of comfort on a cold night. The other items are for self-defense. Every superhero needs a utility belt.
Zetaman says he is not really a superhero, but he does take his cues from the superheroes in the comic books he loves.
“I like Superman and I like Zorro so I thought, ‘Wow, combine the two,’ ” Zetaman told KATU News on a night when we tagged along as he handed out food and clothing items to the homeless.
He has also given up buying his beloved comics in order to finance his good works on Portland’s streets. Some of the money goes directly into the hands of the homeless.
“I want to help because I grew up poor and I grew up starving and stuff,” Zetaman said. “I’m an adult now, I have a job and I just want to help where I can.”
One homeless man received a pair of gloves to ward off the cold. Others gratefully accepted chicken sandwiches. More and more, Zetaman is receiving recognition. He has an audio blog, MySpace page and several videos of his exploits have turned up on YouTube.
Citizens pose for cell phone camera photos with Zetaman, and homeless people reach out to shake his hand and thank him.
“I think anyone who wants to go in this community and do good work, more power to them.” says one man who gives Zetaman a hearty high-five. “I love you, Zetaman, you rock,” he says.
The costume didn’t seem unusual to another admirer. “Looks like a normal every-day goth so it’s kind of cool,” the man said. In a city known for “weird,” Zetaman doesn’t turn too many heads, at least not any more.
“I don’t wear a mask or a cape. I tried that the first time and got in trouble with police so as of that, never again,” Zetaman says of his initial foray into citizen crime fighting.
“I really don’t want to die or anything,” he says, explaining how he shifted to helping the homeless. Now, he’s becoming part of Portland lore.
Zetaman is not alone in his endeavors. In other cities across the nation, other self-made superheroes have stepped up to fight crime, help the homeless or contribute their own special brand of civic improvement.
They have names like Apocalypse Meow, Phantom Zero and Agent Null.
Zetaman says he’s met with some of these other solo civic social fighters and an alliance may be in the works.
“I’m not really a superhero because I don’t have any powers or anything,” Zetaman says as he continues his rounds, looking for more people to help.
The buzz on the meaner streets of Portland says otherwise.
Perhaps, one day, there may even be a Zetaman comic book.
http://www.katu.com/news/specialreports/18335494.html

It’s a tough job being Portland’s only superhero.
Once a week for the past 18 months, Zetaman has donned his costume and patrolled downtown Portland, seeking out the needy with gifts of food and clothing.
He goes armed with an extendable steel baton, pepper spray, and a Taser that delivers 30,000 volts—enough to put a man on the ground. Those tools of the trade are to defend himself or people in trouble. But he doesn’t pick fights, and so far he hasn’t been forced to draw his weapons or apprehend anybody.
Like the men under the Burnside Bridge one recent Saturday night when temperatures fell into the low 40s, most of the people Zetaman encounters are grateful for the help.
But they also fail to ask the obvious question: What possesses a stocky 29-year-old to put on a homemade costume and prowl the city streets in the dead of night?
The answers lie both in Zetaman’s own past and on the Web, where in recent years hundreds of other self-styled “real-life superheroes” have sprung into existence around the country.
Zetaman was hesitant to reveal his secrets when contacted by WW. But in the end he agreed to be interviewed and allow a reporter to spend two nights on patrol with him, in hopes that the publicity will inspire more people to become costumed heroes.
“This is not about me,” he insists. “Anyone could do this. I’m nothing special.” He doesn’t even like the term “superhero,” preferring to call himself a “man of mystery.”
But he admits being a costumed avenger is addictive after the first taste of parading in public with a “Z” on your chest.
“I couldn’t stop after that,” he says. “I feel great about myself. I’m staying active in the community. And I like comic books, I like great and noble ideas—like He-Man and Spider-Man. And they all have this thing about noble responsibility.”
On the pages of MySpace.com and in Internet chat rooms, the superheroes plan missions and exchange tips on fighting crime. That is, when they’re not sniping at each other, forming rival superteams, or weathering real-life attacks from mysterious supervillains. But more on the rivalries later.
Most heroes say they’re in the business to make a positive impact. Or just to have a good time.
“People will tell you they had a calling or a vision,” says “Superhero,” a 39-year-old former pro wrestler from Clearwater, Fla., who patrols his hometown in a souped-up ’75 Corvette. “I used to tell people I was trying to be a symbol. Then I realized it was a bunch of crap, and I do it ’cause it’s hella fun.”
In a world where sci-fi has come true and flip phones are as commonplace as pencils, the Eye, a 49-year-old superhero in Mountain View, Calif., says there’s nothing left to stop people from living out their comic-book fantasies.
“Every citizen should do something of that nature,” says the Eye, who says he uses his skills as a former private eye to solve crimes. “I just use the persona to protect the identity and do it with a little style, I suppose.”
It’s easy for the casual observer to wonder what the hell Zetaman or any superhero is accomplishing when the country is dealing with serious issues like the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq or the threat of a recession. And it’s just as easy to laugh at any superhero’s MySpace page, Zetaman’s included.
If you went online right now and accused him of being a supergeek, you certainly wouldn’t be the first.
But consider this: If our life is basically a quest for identity and purpose, real-life superheroes have a huge advantage on ordinary mortals. And for that, they credit the Internet—a world where users can instantly create new personas and seek out others with the same interests.
Dr. Gordon Nagayama Hall, a University of Oregon psychology professor, says real-life superheroes probably have an inflated sense of self-worth, even as they help the innocent.
“Some of us might do those things without the costume,” he says. “The sort of bizarre nature of it suggests to me they might be looking for some kind of recognition that might stem from some narcissistic process.”
The Web merely feeds that impulse, he says. “These Internet groups create this support that actually emboldens people to go out there and act out their fantasy.”
Or as Zetaman puts it, in less academic terms: “It’s a pretty easy club to join. All you need is a costume and a MySpace page.”
It’s taboo in the superhero world to call them by their real names. But by day, Zetaman is Illya King, a married man with no kids. He makes about $40,000 a year, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Beaverton, drives a 1998 Ford minivan with 96,000 miles on it, and has no criminal record.
Zetaman declined to reveal where he works or what he does for a living, because, he says, he’s concerned about strangers showing up and harassing him on the job.
His stated motives for being a superhero range from the quotidian (“having a cool costume, having a cool identity”) to the quixotic (“helping as many people as I can as selflessly as I can”).
He hesitated to reveal his name for this story because, he says, his true identity is inconsequential. He insists he doesn’t want to draw attention to himself, but to serve as an example. And there’s another, more pressing reason Zetaman hesitates to identify himself: an alarming incident last month in California.
In an unprecedented turn, Zetaman’s superhero buddy Ragensi, who patrols the town of Huntington Beach, Calif., in a black ninja costume, says he was attacked by what appeared to be an unknown supervillain.
Nothing is known of the attacker, Zetaman says, except that he wore special pads used by other superheroes and seemed to be well-prepared, lurking in wait. He used martial-arts moves against Ragensi, who managed to escape using his own fighting skills.
Ragensi did not respond to WW’s requests for an interview. But Zetaman says the unprovoked attack made him redouble his reluctance to identify himself. “We’re still pretty freaked out by the whole thing,” Zetaman says.
Crazy as it may sound to the rest of us, the superhero community has long feared the possibility that supervillains may emerge to confront them. But even after Ragensi’s run-in, Zetaman says it never occurred to him that he could be a target. His costume is more low-profile than Ragensi’s ninja garb, and on the nights WW patrolled with Zetaman, he drew no stares on the streets of downtown. Even the people he helps rarely realize he’s a superhero.
Zetaman’s origins date back to 2006, a time when he was going through a rough stretch in his personal life. Both he and his wife had temporarily lost their jobs, and at the same time they were hit with thousands of dollars in medical bills when his wife suffered a miscarriage. As the couple sank into debt, collection agencies turned nasty, filing claims against them in court for more than $5,000.
But the Portland megachurch they were attending put more of an emphasis on money than other churches they had gone to, pushing the faithful to give at least 10 percent of their pre-tax income to receive the full blessings of God. The couple couldn’t put up that kind of cash. Friends began praying for them.
“We felt like we were charity cases,” Zetaman says. He made a vow. “I’m gonna find a way to make my name for something. I’m basically gonna stick it to the man. That’s how it started off.”
A comics fan since he was a kid growing up in California, Connecticut and Vancouver, Wash., he was tooling around online and found a website for Mr. Silent, an Indianapolis-based superhero. A search brought him to others, including Dark Guardian and Squeegeeman, both in New York.
(Squeegeeman is on the campy end of the superhero spectrum. His MySpace page claims he fights “crime and grime,” and shows videos of him participating in the 2007 AIDS Walk New York and giving out water during the city’s 100-degree heat wave last summer.)
Zetaman was impressed, but his search turned up no local superheroes. “I was kind of shocked that there was nothing like this in Portland,” Zetaman recalls. “Our motto is ‘Keep Portland Weird.’ Where’s all the weird people?”
He created a Yahoo account to establish a new identity online. He started working out, dropping 10 pounds on his 5-foot-6-inch frame, bringing him down to 200 pounds. And he hit the stores to buy his first costume: a spandex shirt from Wal-Mart, leather jeans from Hot Topic and boots from cryoflesh.com, a goth website. At Party City he bought a zebra mask and remodeled it to fit his first identity: the Cat.
He made his public debut on Aug. 18, 2006, when he planned to patrol while a movie was showing on Pioneer Square. He arrived at a downtown parking garage about 10 pm, donned his Cat mask and stood gazing out over the city, when a woman got off the elevator to walk to her car and started screaming. Two bicycle cops swooped in to question him.
“I thought, this is not cool. This is not gonna work at all,” he says. “I want to be a positive force, not some kind of a thug.”
Going against the advice of other heroes, he ditched the mask altogether and switched to Zetaman—a combination of Zorro and Superman, two of his favorite heroes, riffing off the Greek name for the letter Z.
Without the mask, he no longer incited public panic. But the costume remained a work in progress. He paid $70 for a full-length spandex costume from Minneapolis-based Hero Gear, which outfits many of the Internet’s real-life superheroes. But the full-body suit didn’t fly.
“It kind of sucked,” Zetaman says. “I wasn’t feeling it.”
A $45 spandex shirt with the stylized “Z” on the chest worked out better. But his leather pants brought unwanted attention from certain men on Southwest Stark Street, so he switched to cargo pants instead. He says that cut down on the catcalls.
He keeps his identity secret from everyone but a few family members. His parents are still in the dark. “Here I am, almost 30, and I still care about what my parents think,” he says. “I have an outfit, I run around in the middle of the night, and I hang out with homeless people. So yeah, I’ve kind of avoided that conversation.”
His wife of seven years, Allison King, 30, says at first she was apprehensive because she worried about his safety. But now she fully supports him. “He’s just my hero,” she says. “One of the things I fell in love with him for, he cares about other people so much.”
Now Allison accompanies him on patrol in civilian clothes, helping him pass out food and occasionally filming video she posts on YouTube. “It’s not how I thought I would be spending time with my husband,” she says. “But it’s awesome.”
Zetaman’s not into superhero kink, but he once slipped into bed in uniform. It didn’t work out. “It just felt too stupid,” he says. “I was just laughing.”
Vigilante justice has a controversial history, from Old West posses seeking revenge against Native American tribes to today’s Minuteman Civil Defense Corps patrolling the Mexican border. But the work of Zetaman and other superheroes appears to stay within the law.
Most states allow a citizen’s arrest if a crime is being committed. No permits are needed to carry Zetaman’s chosen weapons of batons, Mace or Tasers, at least in Portland. And while it may be eccentric to do community service in spandex, no one’s been arrested for impersonating a superhero.
A nationwide community-policing group called the Guardian Angels has existed legally for decades, including a local chapter that patrols the MAX line in Portland in their trademark red berets.
Though controversial with some critics, Guardian Angels leaders insist the group is a benefit to the public. Carrying no weapons, they travel in groups, concentrating on public places where people feel menaced. Zetaman and other heroes say their mission is little different.
“I certainly applaud him,” says Curtis Sliwa, who founded the Guardian Angels in New York in 1979. “He’s not getting paid for this. He’s risking his life, and he’s helping those who can’t help themselves.”
Cops take a different view of Zetaman.
“I think he’s going to get in big trouble,” says Sgt. Doug Justus of the Portland Police Bureau’s Drugs and Vice Division. “As soon as you start interfering with a crime in progress, if the guy doesn’t identify you as a police officer, I think you’re asking to get hurt.”
The upsurge in superhero activity across the country appears to have caused no complaints elsewhere. Even in Mountain View, Calif., where the Eye claims he uses light-emitting diodes to temporarily blind people while he’s solving crimes, local police spokeswoman Liz Wylie says cops there have never heard of him.
Zetaman says he’s only once stopped a crime in progress—honking his horn to scare off a guy trying to steal cars downtown. He’s lectured a few drug dealers, but unless there was a person in immediate danger, he says he’d be more likely to call the police on his cell phone than try to stop a crime himself.
“I guess it sounds kind of less heroic, but I don’t want to die,” he says. As for taking out gangs and other organized crime, he says he simply doesn’t have the time or the resources. “I wish I had a million dollars, like Batman,” he says. “But I’m just one guy out there. I’m not strong enough.”
In the past two years, superheroes say their numbers have exploded, largely due to MySpace, the social networking site that’s grown over the same time with its M.O. of allowing users to forge a fake identity and communicate with each other while remaining completely anonymous.
Hundreds of MySpace users pose as superheroes, but Zetaman—who’s intensely involved in the superheroes’ online community and set up several of their most popular bulletin boards—estimates fewer than 30 nationwide actually go out on patrol. As Zetaman suggests, the only requirements to be a superhero seem to be a costume and a nickname, though several also claim to have psychic powers.
Master Legend, a superhero from Winter Park, Fla., claims he can sense when people are in danger. He also says he has super strength and healing powers. And he’s not afraid to beat up bad guys like crack dealers, starting out by taunting them in his superhero costume.
“They just don’t know what to think of that. It shocks them,” he says. “They can’t help themselves any longer, and they come and attack me, and it’s showtime. And you can hear from me laughing how much I love it. I love to jump into action.”
Heroes in Florida and New York claim to have no trouble finding street crime, but Portland’s darkest alleys are a safety zone by comparison. Zetaman tried patrolling in the parks around Portland State University (don’t people get mugged in parks?). Still no dice.
His 70-plus nights on the street have led him to the conclusion that in Portland, the homeless are the real people in need. Now he wears a backpack stuffed with blankets, hats, gloves and socks to give away. He lugs bags of food and soda. One night last month he gave out five double cheeseburgers and five chicken sandwiches from McDonald’s, along with a 12-pack of Shasta cola.
Despite the fact that he’s still paying off his own debts, he says he spends about $100 a month out of his own pocket helping the homeless.
Besides giving out food, blankets and clothing, he also offers help getting to a shelter, or into a drug treatment program. But few accept the offer. “It sounds bad,” he says, “but people have to want help in order to get help. It took me a while to learn that.”
Zetaman’s do-gooder philosophy has taken heat from heroes who claim to take a more vigilante approach. His critics include Tothian, a New Jersey-based hero whose MySpace page says he “destroys evil.” Tothian told WW in an email that he once beat up seven armed men while on patrol.
The two heroes tangled on Internet chat boards last April after Tothian declared himself “leader” of the superhero community. But Tothian declined to criticize Zetaman in a WW interview. “Some things are not for the public eye or the media,” Tothian says.
Like many so-called online communities (see some of Oregon’s blogs on the political left and right as examples), legitimate differences and personal attacks have gradually eroded some of the group spirit that once united superheroes. Just like heroes and villains in comic books, they’re now divided into a number of opposing teams that occasionally come into open conflict online.
The conflict deepened when some heroes began calling openly for violence. “It’s pretty bizarre, the emoed-out kids that are more into the dark side of doing this,” Superhero says. Zetaman says he regrets his role in designing one of the message boards. “Now it’s more like this mini homeland-terrorism site, and it pisses me off,” he says.
After a tiff that Zetaman dismisses as “Internet drama,” Tothian kicked Zetaman off that bulletin board, known as Heroes Network. Zetaman in turn founded the Alternates, a group that includes the Eye and Ragensi. The three are holding a secret meeting in San Jose this May to get better organized, hoping to form a new West Coast superhero squad.
Zetaman also hopes to start up a Portland-based group. “I want to move on to where it’s not just me,” he says. “I think more people should pick up a comic book and say, you know, maybe I don’t have to be so gray all the time.”
While most of the online community refer to themselves as “real-life superheroes,” Zetaman says actual real-life superheroes are police, firefighters and other first responders.Zetaman broadcasts a superhero-themed live radio show online each Thursday night at midnight. You can hear it any time at blogtalkradio.com/thealternates.
Superbarrio, a real-life superhero in Mexico City, has gained fame since 1995 by organizing labor rallies and protests and filing petitions to stop government corruption.
Find real-life superheroes online:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-life_superhero
freewebs.com/heroesnetwork/
thealternates.org
myspace.com/zetamanofportland
myspace.com/masterlegend
myspace.com/ragensi
myspace.com/eyewatch_24_7
myspace.com/darkguardianhero
myspace.com/squeegeerific
myspace.com/tothian

Michael “Jack T. Ripper” Brinatte of New Brighton, a local pro wrestler, sews and embroiders superhero costumes for “real-life superheroes.”

By MARIA ELENA BACA, Star Tribune

Last year, when professional wrestler Michael Brinatte became unemployed, he started looking for a new niche. He may have found it, in an unlikely place.

As part of his Hero Gear operation, Brinatte creates “battle suits,” masks, capes, singlets and other accessories for “real-life superheroes.” His clients are people immersed in the culture of comic books and science fiction, who take on superhero personas (and costumes) to do good, whether patrolling the streets, donating blood, or coordinating toy and food drives.

A mention in a recent City Pages article on the national phenomena of “real-life superheroes” has drummed up interest in Brinatte’s business and brought media exposure. Over the past few weeks, he’s participated in radio interviews broadcast locally, as well as in San Diego and Lexington, Ky. He also has a part in an upcoming documentary, made by an Ohio filmmaker, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Hero.”

Brinatte, 39, has wrestled locally for 15 years, most recently under the villain persona “Jack T. Ripper.” Although Brinatte’s friends call him by his wrestling name, it seems an unlikely match. At 6-foot-2 and 240 pounds, he’s got the bulk to be scary, but in conversation, he’s affable and enthusiastic about his avocation.

A corner of Brinatte’s New Brighton apartment is draped with swatches of Spandex: blue, gold, a white-blue harlequin pattern. A pile of masks and a completed costume — singlet and vest-cape — lay on the couch, along with an assortment of tagboard patterns. A work station includes stacking cases of notions, his computer, which he uses for design work, and a docking station for his sewing/embroidery machine, which happened to be in the shop.

He started making his own science-fiction and Star Trek-themed costumes when he was in high school; his most formal training was seventh-grade home economics. (He made a pillow.)

Brinatte made wrestling costumes for his buddies on the circuit, and more recently for some friends who auditioned for the SciFi Channel reality show “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?” which gives people an opportunity to test their mettle as self-made heroes.

In less than a year, he’s made at least 32 costumes and about 50 masks.

Most often, he makes contact with people who have a superhero interest, or they hear about him through word of mouth. They work together, via phone, e-mail or MySpace messages to create a design that the client likes and that Brinatte knows he can make and will work for what the client wants to do.

‘A whole lot of talent’

Desiree Portner, of Dallas, also known as Ninjarella, said Brinatte contacted her last May, after seeing her MySpace page. She had auditioned for “Who Wants to Be a Superhero?” and was plotting another audition. But she needed a new costume.

Brinatte took her idea for a logo and created an embroidered chest shield. He made suggestions for color and shape.

“When we started, I wanted a full-mask costume, but he said I have a lot of personality in my face, so we’d try to put a lot of detail in the suit,” she said. She had auditioned with a fire theme and a blue suit. “He said blue is a cold color, and we should try a warmer color.”

Together, they added stripes and color and, over about a month of talks, agreed on a design.

She waited apprehensively for the suit to arrive.

“When I pulled it out, and when I saw it my jaw dropped,” she said. “I was completely in awe of how it looked. It looked like something out of a comic book. He’s got a whole lot of talent.”

Brinatte charges $80-$120 for his suits, which take him less than six hours to complete. Kid-size suits are usually less than $40.

It’s been important to him to keep prices low. “I try to make a profit without making too much because a lot of people don’t have a lot to spend,” he said, adding that some people in the “real-life superhero” community choose to keep the investment a secret from their families.

Kristen Mueller Utne Reader
In Jackson, Michigan, police are turning to a surprising ally in the fight against crime: a trio of spandex-clad crusaders armed with Mace and known as the Crimefighter Corps. The group’s de facto leader goes by the name Captain Jackson and keeps his true identity a closely guarded secret. He prefers to call his getup a uniform–picture Batman in yellow gloves and a purple cape–and explains that he’s been prowling the streets with his 17-year-old daughter, Crimefighter Girl, since 1999, when he noticed that ‘there were no beat cops around.’ They were soon joined by Queen of Hearts, an anti-domestic violence activist, and the threesome became regulars at community events, feted by local law enforcement. ‘By definition, we’re superheroes,’ says the Captain.
Nationwide, Captain Jackson and his crew have plenty of company. ‘An entire community of real-life superheroes patrols the streets from Los Angeles to Boise, Chicago to Phoenix,’ reports Punk Planet (March/April 2007). They gather on MySpace and WorldSuperheroRegistry .com to discuss morals (‘Is it ever OK for a superhero to kill?’), gadgets (Jackalope asks for advice on building spring-loaded boots), and defense gear (like arm guards forged from PVC piping). Some attempt to take law enforcement into their own gloved hands, but most just try to make the world worth living in and inspire hope in the rest of us. ‘It’s all about standing up for what’s right,’ New York City’s Dark Guardian told Punk Planet. ‘It’s about not throwing garbage on the floor. It’s about not walking by homeless people and totally ignoring them.’
These real-life superheroes pursue missions as diverse as the logos flaunted on their chests: In Seattle, reports Rivet (#16), Transit Man rides buses and encourages commuters to ditch their cars. England’s Angle-grinder Man made international headlines back in 2003 for helping drivers dismantle wheel clamps on their illegally parked vehicles. And in St. Louis, the 26-year-old art student Glitterous battles the mundane, sticking sparkly magnets onto street signs in an attempt to beautify the city, according to an April Riverfront Times article.
Mediamakers have also latched onto the phenomenon: Last year’s The Superman Handbook (Quirk) and Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat? (Chronicle) offer advice on leaping between tall buildings and overcoming your personal kryptonite; the Sci Fi channel’s reality show Who Wants to Be a Superhero? enters its second season this summer; and four new superhero-themed blockbusters (one spoofing the genre) will be released next year.
During the Cold War, Americans sought solace in Westerns, in which the cowboys always whupped the ‘red’ Indians. Today, with diabolical masterminds plotting terrorist attacks from caves and underground bunkers (while weenie politicians wring their hands), the appeal of superpowerful and superethical saviors is strong. Take 22-year-old Tothian, who launched the online Heroes Network and scours the New York/New Jersey area in combat boots, a homemade supershirt, and sometimes a cape (he ditched his mask because it posed ‘tactical disadvantages’) searching for thieves, rapists, and muggers. Tothian graduated from military school at 16 and now serves in the Marine Corps. He says being a superhero is not much different: ‘I’m pretty much fighting the bad guys, saving the world, that kind of stuff.’
When it comes to actually fighting crime, however, most real-life superheroes are more pfftzzz than kraack. Captain Jackson has brandished the Mace tucked into his utility belt only twice, both times against dogs. He and his fearsome trio typically make sure business doors are locked after hours and alert cops to teen vandals. ‘In reality, what we are is pretty much neighborhood watch,’ says Jackson. Still, police in the town rely on the Corps for backup when they’re short-staffed, Jackson says, and he’s a
regular at local chamber of commerce meetings. Even after Jackson was nailed in 2005 by a real-life cop for drunken driving, he only hung up his cape for 12 days before ‘bigwig officials’ begged him not to quit, he says.
Thirty-nine-year-old Kevlex, named for the supermaterials Kevlar and spandex, runs the online World Superhero Registry from his home in Arizona, and he occasionally patrols Flagstaff. He has yet to foil a felon, though he once attempted to nab a shoplifter who was chucking groceries into a bush. ‘Any one cop is probably a hundred times more effective than anyone in our group,’ he says. ‘Real-life superheroes are law enforcement hobbyists, at best.’
Instead, the superhero community, which is dominated by white males in their teens and 20s–nerdy sci-fi fans and former military types–see themselves as symbols of hope in a world where terrorists hijack planes and genocide is overlooked. They’re trying to prove that anyone can provoke change, as Kevlex puts it, by ‘taking a stand for your version of the world, and doing it in a very public way.’
But that’s not to underestimate the sheer glee of prancing down the sidewalk in a mask and a leotard. ‘Walking around in a cape with the wind blowing through it is just really cool,’ Kevlex says. ‘It’s kind of an ego boost.’ Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to shake hands with the Crimefighter Corps in Michigan. ‘People all over the globe utterly go nuts over the opportunity to meet us,’ the trio’s Queen of Hearts says. ‘It’s a positive endorphin high. Not even sex can touch the high you get off this.’
http://www.utne.com/2007-07-01/Politics/Geek-Squads.aspx

Saturday, 12 May 2007
Superhero Saturday: Entomo the Insect-Man
This is my life. I can’t permit other lives, people who chose different paths, to interfere with my path. We’re connected, but still independent. It’s a delicate game of balances. Welcome to human existence.
– Entomo the Insect-Man
This is the beginning of the first ever regular feature here at Gnack Attack. Every Saturday I will be adding an interview with a real life superhero. If you’re already confused, you should catch up by reading my initial superhero post. I have approached a number of real life superheroes for interviews and due to time zone differences, among other variables, the style of each interview will likely be slightly different. Some interviews will be done in the style of a questionaire through email. Some will be done in a more true-to-form interview style through chat software. This, my first superhero interview, was conducted by email.
The first superhero to be interviewed is Entomo the Insect-Man. To find out more about Entomo, you can visit his MySpace page. Before I get straight into the interview I’d like to express my gratitude to Entomo for agreeing to this interview. His answers were concise, sincere and well-thought out. So thank you Entomo! And now, without further ado…
First things first, lets talk pseudonyms. Your superhero name is Entomo the Insect-Man. Tell us a bit about why you chose this name.
The name has born in my mind about 4 years ago. Now that I think about it, it was in the middle of 2003. I was studying anthropology at the time. Well, the name just sprouted from my thoughts, spontaneously. I was trying to define myself, trying to understand more about myself. At the time, I didn’t know anything about the [Real Life Superhero (RLSH)] movement in America, I never even suspected that it existed. I only knew of Super Barrio Gomez in Mexico, and that was about it.
When I first thought about the “Entomo” Superhero name, it was like: “Great. That’s myself, truly. If one day I’d become a Superhero, that will become my nom de guerre. But that day is impossible”. I discarded the idea as soon as it was born in my mind.
Now, that day has come; nothing is impossible.
You have asked that I recognise you as an ecologist/activist/animalist first and foremost. It seems as though you have a very general interest in helping not just humanity, but the world in its entirety. This is something that many people respect but few act on. You have acted – why?
The desire to help the entire world was always with me, since I was a kid. I was just too weak to perform my role as a child. I started to “build-up” my persona and my physique when I turned 18. So it was a gradual process, still on-going. Now I’m strong enough to make the difference if given the chance. It’s something you “sense” as being inside yourself, a mechanism.
Without such incredible mechanism, I couldn’t work.
I could not care that much about humanity as long as our world has been rendered uninhabitable by its inhabitants. I mean, our Earth is a living being. We must treat our world like a person.
The life of a superhero is often shrouded in mystery and secrets. Are you particularly worried about hiding your identity?
No Superhero group at the time, I’m thinking about assembling potential Italian Real Life Superheroes and start one myself. It will take a lot of time, but I don’t care.
My “civilian” identity is just an enhancement of the most human part of myself. Of course, only my girlfriend and some friends (two so far) know about it. They are very supportive. Basically, my “civilian” identity is just an overplaying, but not a mystification. It’s not like Clark and Superman, to draw a parallel with comic books. Clark is a carefully constructed disguise.
My two lives are not separated. I just live twice.
Many superheroes claim to have powers or talents that the general population rarely shares, what about you?
As kid, I didn’t realize the whole thing. I lacked focus, of course. They are not “superpowers” in the strict meaning of the word, but not “ordinary” faculties either. This is Real World, and I’m in the middle.
They are a natural part of me, like breathing or sleeping. I just let them grow in myself as time went on.
Well, if I have to describe what I can do, that’s tricky. It’s like I’m in tune with something greater than me, what I use to call “the spectrum”. Every time I interact with life – and, for instance, nature – something “vibes” in my physique in total harmonical conjunction with the “spectrum”. My insect-like features are just physiological answers to dozen of questions life poses to my body in a day. My faculties are all enlisted here: http://entomo.wikispaces.com.
My “talents”, as you wisely put it, are many. Let’s say I mimic some qualities belonging to the insect world. Sometimes, I am myself amazed at what I can do. My principal weakness is that “I” come and go, in the sense sometimes I’m broken and my faculties seem to have vanished. As an intermittence of some sort.
It seems as though it is standard practice for superheroes to go on patrol looking for crimes to solve or people to help – is this something you also do?
I’ve just debuted. I did some patrols in the past, as a civilian. I’m more a “watcher” than a crimefighter, but I can fight… and very well. Give me a worthwhile opponent. I think the whole purpose of the patrols is adverting police at the right time, and do some of the work by yourself. It’s a collaboration, you know. I’m going to collaborate with police as long as they collaborate with me. It’s a mutual affair.
If you have one chance to tell the entire world one message…
“If you don’t care for this marvellous and unpredictable planet, then you’re not caring for yourself.
All small and big lives are connected to the pivotal life of this globe. All small and big pasts are connected to the pivotal future of this globe.
Don’t act as a parasite… act as a worthwhile life.”
The message speaks for itself.
A lot of people are going to write you off as a crazy guy in a costume.
I don’t care. This is my life. I can’t permit other lives, people who chose different paths, to interfere with my path. We’re connected, but still independent. It’s a delicate game of balances. Welcome to human existence.
I have a mission. The costume is just a part of said mission. An integration.
I have no trouble with wearing my costume in public. Somehow, it’s part of me. It’s the better way to be “exposed”, because I’m actually “exposing” the most important and fascinating part of me.
Every superhero has to have a nemesis, a supervillain counterpart, even if this supervillain is simply crime itself.
I don’t know how to answer to this. I don’t know if, at this point, I “need” an archenemy to focus myself even more… we’ll see. I’m ready to go.
I can only say that an “opposing” counterpart is a natural progression of the resonance we have in the world around us. It’s exponential.
You, like any superhero, have a costume to go with your superhero persona…
My costume is partly green because green is the most incredible manifestation of nature. Even many species of insect show green in their chromatic palette, which is a true miracle. I still wear what I call my “Beta Version Outfit”, or even “First Bite”. It’s a prototype. I’m going to wear a more sophisticated mask and suit in the weeks to come.
My symbol is a stylized capital sigma resembling an hourglass; representative of the summation of insect-like features I incorporate into myself – into my genetic code. An hourglass because it’s time to do something; time needing to be spent doing something to make the present state of the Earth much better than what it is. Additionally, some species of black and brown widows present on their abdomen the shape of an hourglass.
One of the most engaging things about any good superhero is their flaws and weaknesses – their ability to appear so very human to us.
I agree with you. Being a Superhero is just… well, a magnification of human nature. Not a re-arrangement, or a travesty. It’s a magnification of something that is already present in human nature.
I have flaws, but they are part of me. They aren’t “mistakes” to fix, rather natural “losses”. I can deal with them.
Finally, I thank you because you’re an exponent of the bright side of the “new generation” of young people out of there, and I’m honoured to promote my movement among you all.
I inject justice.
Entomo.
Posted by Nick at 12:45 PM
1 comments: Jesse said…
heh
Good one, guys.
This … fine specimen of Eye-talian studliness has been very upset at the way he and his colleagues have been characterized over at www.rationreality.com.
Check it out …
http://rationreality.com/2007/07/03/real-life-superheroes-the-revenge/
6 July 2007 5:22 AM
Real Life Spider-Man”.
It was a blog I wrote on ANOTHER (possible) Real Life Superhero here in Italy, whose appearance is identical to famed comic book character ‘Spider-Man’.
I’m not ‘Spider-Man’, neither I pretend to be ‘Spider-Man’. He doesn’exist, you know.
And I’m not located in Milan, definitely.
But wait… everything seems good in order to have fun, right? It’s the philosophy behind the new generations.
What are you CREATING? What are you DOING with your life?
This blog. “Hate” is the only thing you know.
We’ll keep up the good work for you anyway.
I INJECT JUSTICE.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 4, 2007 at 5:42 am
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Jesse,
http://technorati.com/wtf/superheroes/2007/07/03/real-life-superheroes-crimefighters-or-simple-unde-1
So you hate us THAT much. Are you earning from it? What’s your satisfaction? Tell me. I think your article is even more disrespectful than the original one.
My question is: why? What’s the point?
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 4, 2007 at 1:28 pm
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It took me 5 seconds to find that disrespectful comment. I can sacrifice such an insignificant amount of time, do not worry.
It’s not fun at all. We’re fighting the good cause, not playing to a silly ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ play table (like someone among you suggested) or whatever you call that. We’re not delusional “nerds”, but very balanced and skilled people set to make the difference in the world.
On a side note, I did NOT insult you. When I talked about “ignorance”, I talked about the undeniable fact you were not willing to learn about our movement. Apparently.
Still, I’m learning to not bother much with such (disrespectful or polite) attempts to destabilize and/or “invalidate” our movement.
This is my last post. Good luck with your lives. I wish you the best. If given the chance, I would save your life.
That’s the purpose of my existence. That’s my path. That’s my mission.
I INJECT JUSTICE.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 4, 2007 at 6:26 pm
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In all regards,
Your digging might have been wrong, since nobody in the community I belong to ever considered me as being a “joke”. Said that, I do my patrols, risk my life when given the chance, and I’m also going to do some charity appearances in orphanages as well. It’s just that my debut was in May, I’m relatively “new”.
Now, Bagel. I’m going to submit an article for RATION REALITY. I’ve also offered my MySpace friendship to you all, including your husband. Hope it’s the beginning of a collaboration in order to promote OUR activity. Ok?
(ouch, that was supposed to be my last post). (wink).
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 5:25 am
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ON A SIDE NOTE, I contacted Jesse yesterday. I didn’t get any answer from him… yet.
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 5:46 am
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Bagel,
I’m in the process to slightly re-write my piece on the movement. Could you wait just a little bit? I live two lives, and sometimes extra-time looks like a luxury.
Good ol’ language barrier. I’ve to refine the article, that’s for sure.
I repeat it: ‘Real Life Spider-Man’ was (supposed to be) a NEW Real Life Superhero here in Italy, it’s not ME. And I live and operate in NAPLES. Why don’t you fix that? (wink).
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 5:56 am
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I wasn’t rushing you, take your time with the article, so long as I have it within the hour *wink*
This is Jesse’s post. I prefer not to edit my authors’ works once they’ve gone up. I’ll pass the word on to him.
We are a 4 person writing team. If you wanna see the things that I write, click my name. (Some things there were posted by me because they were contributions from outside writers, but they clearly state such).
Bagel of Everything
July 5, 2007 at 6:15 am
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Good, Bagel. I’ll read something written by you when I come back home. In the middle of night.
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 6:29 am
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Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1000
Bagel, you’re turning us into celebrities. There’s no need to fill the net, really.
(smile)
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 7:25 am
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You don’t know anything about Naples or Milan. You just ridiculize yourself this way.
Line crossed. Goodbye.
I inject justice.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 5, 2007 at 2:01 pm
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Entomo-
I know plenty about Naples. That’s where the US Sixth Fleet is based.
I was in the Navy, remember?
Jesse Custer
July 5, 2007 at 2:12 pm
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I’d really like to hear some opinions regarding tothian’s threats against me
Somehow, it doesn’t seem very heroic to threaten a lady. I didn’t even do anything!
bagel of everything
July 5, 2007 at 2:22 pm
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It’s why I dropped off of Heroes Network. My cop friends at the gym were none too thrilled about it. They have even told me, “You see, THIS is why we get along with you. YOU don’t cross the line, YOU are actually trying to help.”
Superhero
July 5, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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@Entomo: How’s the progress with the article you’re writing?
You are still going to write it, aren’t you?
Silly of me to ask…I mean, you gave your word and you’re a superhero, so I’ll try and be patient.
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 1:02 pm
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Soylent Ape,
So we have a little bit of blood in common. BARI is a splendid city, however. You should be proud of your roots.
(on a side note, BARI is also a very wild place to live in.)
Bagel,
Let’s assume for a moment I might give you the permission to issue that article on your site. Fine. And then? More uproar from BOTH the crowds. More fights to come.
I say: let’s stop this now.
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 5:18 pm
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Entomo: I’m sorry, I must have misunderstood you.
“Now, Bagel. I’m going to submit an article for RATION REALITY”
I thought you were one of the good guys, but apparently even superheroes break their word.
(also: If you’ve seen any of our contributor posts, you’ll see that the only editing I do is the layout (getting the pictures hanging straight and such), and fixing misspellings. I do not change the content without permission of the writer. If you write an honest piece, I can’t imagine how an uproar could begin.
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 5:30 pm
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“Now, Bagel. I’m going to submit an article for RATION REALITY. I’ve also offered my MySpace friendship to you all, including your husband. Hope it’s the beginning of a collaboration in order to promote OUR activity. Ok?”
Doesn’t really sound like a “promise” written on stone and signed in blood, but more like a “proposal”.
I wrote this message when everything was STILL pretty much contained. Then it went downhill from that point.
I’ve now a point to ponder, and still feel tired because the patrol I did yesterday. That’s what you can call “tribulation”. I call it “routine”.
By the way, Bagel, who are you? What’s your job? Just wondering.
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 5:40 pm
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Final verdict:
There’s no need for a contribution.
My personal MySpace profile page is packed with useful infos. Just read them, and don’t misinterpret them anymore as the original poster did (”Real Life Spider-Man” what?).
I inject justice.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 5:48 pm
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Superhero: I would very much like to see an article from you! You see, the majority of our readers never see these comments, and therefore are only seeing our side of the issue. I don’t want this to be a one sided rant. I am not running a personal soapbox here.
I’m sad to hear that you’ve taken so much shit from your colleagues. Frankly, you’re the only one who has helped me to open my mind about your movement. I wish I could make every one of our readers see these comments and learn more about what it is to be a superhero, but that’s just not how a blog works.
I’m also sorry to hear that Entomo cowers from others. Perhaps he needs to inject some courage?
Seems it’s fitting that he is an insect man, as I’m don’t feel like he has much of a spine when he takes back his promises like that.
Anyway, submission details are here. Please use your correct email address, incase I need to discuss any changes with you.
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 5:53 pm
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Entemo: Most of our readers do not click links and they do not read the comments. Thousands of people read our posts everyday. Only a handfull of those click the links or read the comments. If you aren’t serious about opening minds, then don’t worry about it.
I’m more worried that you lied to me than about any article. Did I deserve to be lied to? What kind of justice do you inject for liars?
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 5:59 pm
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Post-Scriptum:
Superhero,
I’m a Real Life Superhero, not a soldier. You should know that I’m totally independent and free to opt whatever solution I feel as being the best.
I have nothing to worry about, as far as my collegues are concerned: you, Zetaman, Tothian, Master Legend, Stargazer, Prospect, Nostrum, Squeegeeman, Eye, Huntress and many others.
We’ve developed a strong and unbreakable bound of comradeship and friendship.
…
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 6:03 pm
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Bagel,
Insects are provided with an exo-skeleton which is basically much more proficient than humans’s inner skeleton.
COURAGE is something totally un-related to Internet, trust me.
E.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 6:07 pm
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Oh, I didn’t see this one, sorry:
“Now, Bagel. I’m going to submit an article for RATION REALITY…Doesn’t really sound like a “promise” written on stone and signed in blood, but more like a “proposal”.
Sorry, again. I misunderstood.
To me, saying I’m going to do something is the same as promising it. When a person’s word is good, promises are superfluous.
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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@ Entomo, I appreciate that. But I Have & Do take flak from a small percentage of our coleauges for how I opperate.
@bagel, I’ll try.
Superhero
July 6, 2007 at 6:12 pm
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Jesse, that’s the scary part. some of these guys Do think they are the punnisher…
Superhero
July 6, 2007 at 6:15 pm
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Uh oh…I think I can only do DOC. that’s what Word makes isn’t it? what do I do?
Superhero
July 6, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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Bagel,
Jesse Custer is filling the whole net with his “Technorati” and a good deal of disrespect towards us.
I don’t care about Internet that much. I just think to the criterium behind the action, you know. It’s a matter of principle (Which is a very different concept from “pride”, a mere exercise in self-vanity).
People can found every info they need on OUR MySpace profile pages.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 6, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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@ SH-
Most publishers require .RTF documents, and Bagel fancies herself a publisher … so …
Go ahead and send it to me as a .DOC. I’ll reformat it and pass the file along to her.
@ Entomo-
You’re like a five year old kid who’s just found out that his puppy likes the neighbor’s kid better than him. Seriously, get over yourself.
People aren’t clicking the links to go to your Myspace profile. In the last two days, more people have come to Ration Reality by searching ‘Entomo The Insect Man’ and ‘Entomo Real Superhero’ than have clicked to your site from ours. Hell, more people have come to Ration Reality by Googling ‘hannukah music torrents,’ ‘communal baths – germany,’ ‘naked delivery girl’ and ‘dumpster whores’ than have clicked away from our site to visit your Myspace profile. Bagel’s right – most people don’t read the comments or click the links. I usually don’t read past the first, hell, ten or fifteen comments. Sometimes more, if they’re really funny or interesting.
Write something to present a more balanced view of who and what you are. We will post it with no commentary aside from a brief introduction saying that you’re a guest contributor to the site.
I will advertise your guest article on Technorati and Digg!, just as enthusiastically as I do my own posts, and I will do it in a respectful and polite fashion. This is the best shot you’re going to get, Entomo. People right now are seeing only one side of it. Give them the other side. The feedback emails that we’ve been getting right now have been running pretty heavily towards ‘wow, Superhero is a pretty cool guy, so’s Zeitgeist. That Entomo is a whiner, though. What’s wrong with him?’
You want to stop that from happening? You want to change that? You’ve been acting like a little kid here for the past few days. You want the puppy to like you best again? Smear yourself with bacon grease, write a post here and act like an adult. Do what Mr. President Tothian wants you to do and make your community look ‘badass and cool.’ Right now, except for Superhero, Squeegee, and Zeitgeist, you don’t. Well … maybe Nostrum, too. He seems to be a pretty stand-up guy, but the jury’s still out.
But either way, get over yourself.
Jesse Custer
July 6, 2007 at 7:07 pm
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@SH and Jesse: I don’t do .docs because I don’t use Word. I hate Word. I can reformat it, no worries. Include some links to photos too, if you wish. I like a few photos 🙂
And where the heck is Squeegeeman? I love me some Squeeg! Is he too cool for us?
I wonder if Entomo wouldn’t have been a better choice for our contest than Tothian? I mean, its really what’s worse: Threats or Lies?
bagel of everything
July 6, 2007 at 7:15 pm
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Squeegee man is like a enigma…wrapped in a burito or somethig. I’m sure he’s out walking for cameras or aids or squeegee-itis or something. just go to his myspace and say hi. Oh and fyi he NEVER drops the gimmick.
Superhero
July 6, 2007 at 8:39 pm
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It’s done bagel. jesse has it & pics.
Superhero
July 6, 2007 at 8:42 pm
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any other pics, just yank ‘em off my myspace.
superhero
July 6, 2007 at 8:55 pm
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K, kids.
We’ve got us two submissions by our RLSH friends. I haven’t yet worked out the logistics of when they’ll be posted, but I’m thinking early next week. Probably the first will go up tomorrow or Monday.
They will be on the front page here at RationReality.com
Thanks folks!
bagel of everything
July 7, 2007 at 9:50 pm
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“Jesse Custer”,
Please, grow up. If you are so attached to the “internet popularity” concept, then become a blogger. No wait, you’re already that.
Have fun, man. That’s what you want. Taste your freedom. It’s just Internet.
I inject justice.
Entomo The Insect-Man
July 9, 2007 at 6:11 pm
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*yawn*
Entomo, don’t you ever check our front page?
The conversation has moved here.
bagel of everything
July 9, 2007 at 6:50 pm
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New post here:
The World Needs Heroes
bagel of everything
July 12, 2007 at 4:54 pm
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“Yawn”
Sleep if you need that.
I inject justice.
Entomo The Insect-Man
August 1, 2007 at 5:56 am
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Hey Entomo. Still searching for yourself, I see? One of these days you’ll find something worth looking at, I guess.
jessecuster
August 1, 2007 at 10:33 am
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Good times.
I’m glad SuperHero turned out to be a cool guy.
Horray for SH!
I kinda miss Entomo tho. He was fun
bagel of everything
August 24, 2007 at 7:02 pm
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If I had to sum up what a RLSH really is (at least for me), I would have to say that when people ask why we wear costumes and create “alter-egos” to whatever degree we do, it is simply to draw attention in a colorful way to the idea that anyone can be “super”, by virtue of going above and beyond their day-to-day norm to help others. Run-on sentence thusly ends…
That’s really all there is to it.
You don’t need a costume to do what we do. All you need is a genuine desire to help, whenever and wherever you can, in a world that needs it heroes. The hero or heroine…in *everyone*.
In Seeing Justice Done,
~The Eye~
The Eye
November 9, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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‘you don’t need a costume to do what we do’
Ok, so why the need for a costume? I understand uniforms for our military,police,fire fighters- they are earned. As are their titles. What torturous labyrinth are you subjected to before you don your spandex? What oath do you swear by? Nothing against you, Superhero, I admire your work. But it seems that some of your brethren are in it for the glory. The world has its heroes and they don’t wear costumes. Humility and Integrity are manifested in action, they are qualities that need no marketing. Again, Superhero, I have served my country and I appreciate the service that you are doing. It is noble and just. I am simply giving others something to think about.
keywork.
November 9, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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Eye: Do I have to do what you do to wear the costume? Cuz I like dressing up, but I don’t actually like helping people.
KW: Because it’s freakin hot! No, wait…that’s why girls like yaoi.
bagel of everything
December 9, 2007 at 2:53 am
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When I was 4 years old I watched Mary Poppins. She was my hero.
I grabbed an umbrella , opened it and jumped off the roof and it fucking hurt everywhere.
Then I saw her tiitties in Victor Victoria. That just fucked up everything.
micky2
December 9, 2007 at 3:11 am
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