Earlier this week on Veteran’s Day, or Remembrance Day as it is referred to in the old country, I was thinking it was time to thank people like Micah Jesse. When I see his face I think of the beginning of “Saving Private Ryan” or Ryan’s Privates or whatever it was called. This is what they died for! Freedom.

They also died for the time my friend Ben and I were in line with ”priced to go!” Spice Girls dolls in our arms and we just looked at each other wondering if these were the freedoms those kids got blown apart for? Hell ya it was / is!

Hitler and Binsy would NEVER allow us to buy Spice Girl dolls, however they may appreciate the balls-out , take no prisoners approach to life and journalism Micah Jesse has. For assholes like Hitler and Bin Laden, guys like Micah are secretly admired while openly despised as a major thorn in their sides. This guy is like a platoon of Green Berets storming Normandy and the Bay of Pigs and Afghanistan all while finding out what hair conditioner Mario Lopez uses.

Thanks to courageous people like Micah, the public is becoming more aware of the efforts of bloggers because, in reality, blogging is not unlike going to war. There are casualties, you can sustain injuries, which include blows to the upper and lower ego regions, AND your ass gets all nubmsy-wumsy at times. Also, sometimes you just need a break. In the army it’s called a “furlough” and in Blog Wars its called “looking in the mirror” and “getting a coffee while sighing aloud.” In war you have to ask tough questions about what that weird mark on your finger is and and climb fences, same as blogging.

So on the next day of remembrance, remember us too, world. Hug a blogger and say, “Thanks man — or ladyman — for being in the shit.”

Fuck it, Micah says it best. (Warning: This video gets pretty real.)

-TV CARNAGE

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