But those of you who do go out and make a difference (for the better), thanks for what you do, and be safe.

I just interviewed two firefighters today (I’m supposed to be a photographer, but I make my living as a photo journalist so I have to do interviews sometimes) and when I left, I said “…and thanks for what you do.”

Then I felt like a dork, because that’s something a nine year old would say. But I meant it. I’ve photographed these guys’ department out in below zero conditions at an empty summer camp fighting a fire with no place to get warm. They were out there for hours, and I never heard one complaint.

I saw the guy with the SH on his costume; he’s a big guy! I actually clicked on the site to find out what SH meant. Is SH for Shaved Head? At first, I thought it might be the guys initials, or a joke, like Sh*t Head. That wouldn’t be heroic at all. (I’m trying to be good-naturedly smart alecky. Please don’t squat thrust my 5′ 5″ body into a ceiling…)

It’s actually Super Hero. Kind of generic, but better than Tothian. I have nothing against him, but how about, I don’t know, “The Jersey Commando” or better yet, “The Jersey Jarhead.”

This other guy in Jersey, btw, maybe so many people have logged onto his site to bust his b*lls (wait, that looks like it could be bills. I want it to mean balls. Who would want to bust someone’s bills? Balls. Wait, can I say balls?) that he just assumed you were there to harrass him. It sounds like he flipped out a little. Maybe he has issues combined with being tormented by actual Marines combined with a misunderstanding. Maybe a third party who is not involved (another superhero) can get a conversation going.

As people who are trying to make the world a better place, that, though difficult, would be a good thing to attempt.

Mark
Former U.S. Army (signal corps), former Guardian Angel (Boston, so not too dangerous), current Red Cross disaster volunteer (can you believe before shelter training, we had to get criminal background checks!).

Of course, we’re curious that you might want to discuss this. Some of us try to keep a low profile (like Nostrum), while some of us have experimented with the other direction.

In another thread, I thought that Entomo raised an excellent point that you should try to understand the movement. There are a lot of misconceptions and I would encourage you to look at it with a different set of eyes than Internet cynicism and smarminess.

It was interesting that Nostrum put in a rare appearance and whether you know it or not, you should feel honored. He is a hero among heroes. It’s not an easy thing to have protected post-Katrina New Orleans from lawlessness. Please mock sparingly. You don’t really know what we’ve each done or accomplished. And we’re not bragging about it.

But about this entire dialogue… Yeah, Dreizehn is right. At the end of the day…

…There’s no point to.. and at the end of the day… nobody gives a shit.

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Dreizehn

This particular article is nearly a year old.

And Tothian IS detached from a little thing you and I like to call “reality”. We sould glorigy him though- after all, he IS the greatest of all heroes!

shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
I’m not so sure that one fits him. He certainly wasn’t detached from our articles about him.

Two days ago, I wrote a blog on Myspace exposing those two frauds for the fucks that they are, and they bitched and moaned to their mommies and the Myspace admins deleted it… which just pissed me off. So, I reposted the damn thing on Bravehost. Enjoy!

“9/5/2007 5:25 PM Tothian – I should also add that Chris Guardian is my real real life superhero. When I need advice, I look to him for support. He is the reason I changed from being a Jedi to a superhero. Him and Superhero are the best ever.”

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I have to agree with him, tho. Superhero is awesome. Don’t really know Guardian much tho.