I've also made appearances on a dozen radio shows and have been filmed for three different RLSH documentaries. I have been quoted as an expert on the subject in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, People magazine, Seattle Weekly, Scientific American, io9.com, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and dozens of other newspapers, magazines, websites around the world. I have traveled to meet RLSH in Minneapolis, Rochester (Minnesota), Brooklyn, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, New Bedford (Massachusetts), and Washington DC, as well as meeting regularly with the Milwaukee crew.
My book is based on extensive research, interviewing, and field work. After a few months I also established this blog- both the book and the blog are titled Heroes in the Night. I had a long, fascinating interview with him in person one night and determined that the short magazine piece I had successfully pitched did not scratch the surface of the story and decided to write a book. I was determined to find a local RLSH if there was one and found The Watchman, a man who dons a red rubber mask, suit, and trenchcoat and patrols the streets of Milwaukee. As a lifelong fan of comic books and unusual and unique people and subcultures, I was immediately hooked. I was introduced to the Real Life Super Hero(RLSH) story in late February, 2009. My name is Tea Krulos and I'm a freelance writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
HEROES IN THE NIGHT, available for pre-order at IPG /// BARNES & NOBLE /// AMAZON /// POWELL'S /// INDIEBOUND It is what it is and you can read my detailed account of that evening in a Heroes in the Night chapter titled "People Fighting and Pepper Spray and Superheroes and.I Don't Know."īut if there's anything I hate more than getting punched in the face by a pepper spray soaked Russian (it happened)- it's lazy fact checking. I think presenting that last sentence as fact is actually libel, but I don't know, I'm no lawyer.Īm I defending the actions of Jones that night? No. No, Department of Social Services did not ban him from ever working with children ever again. Toward the end of the short Phoenix Jones segment of the article, the incorrect reporting accelerates- no, Phoenix Jones was not arrested and unmasked on live television. The police, who were none too thrilled with Phoenix Jones, decided to take their word for it, ignore what Jones had to say, and added the frolicking alibi to their report. Well, when the police showed up and asked the group what had happened, they decided that saying they were "dancing" instead of saying they were "beating the shit out of each other in a street fight" sounded better.
So where does this report from Funkytown come from? If that was a dance, as this writer adamantly suggests, it was one hell of an electric boogaloo. After Phoenix Jones broke the group up, one person deliberately hit another person in the arm with their car. I don't feel iffy on this- one guy was kicking another guy laying in the street in the head, one dude was punching another dude, there was angry screaming and shoving. I was trailing Phoenix Jones in Seattle to get material for my upcoming book, Heroes in the Night, in October 2011 when we stumbled across a street fight. RE: Point number 4: "A Superhero Maces a Bunch of Dancers." Other than a few nouns, this relaying of the "pepper spray incident," as it is commonly known, is a complete falsehood.
#PHOENIX JONES GETS BEAT UP CRACKED#
Still, I feel I have to speak out about the scenario Cracked suggests in their Triumph the Insult Comic Dog style report, " The 5 Most Spectacularly Failed Attempts at Superheroism."
#PHOENIX JONES GETS BEAT UP FREE#
Internet reporting is so shoddy these days that I wouldn't be surprised to see a article titled "5 Writers Who Actually Spent More Than Ten Minutes Checking Over Their Work."Īpparently we have to give a free pass to people like - "because it's satire!" as everyone exclaims.
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