I hate to preface my
HeroesCon preview with personal business, but it also seems
appropriate given my impending two week hiatus.
That’s right, folks –
Needless Things will be on autopilot for the next two weeks while I
attend HeroesCon and visit my parents in North Carolina. It’s the
longest break I will have taken from the site, but I am leaving it in
capable hands. Over the next couple of weeks you’ll still have toy
reviews, opinion pieces, and who knows what else. As I write this I
already have posts from Beau Brown and a new Q&A with Kill, Baby…
Kill!
Side
Note: This next bit was somewhat invalidated several hours after I
wrote it. But the emotions I had while writing it were very real and
I am not one to throw out 250 perfectly good words. I’ll explain
the situation after the relevant material.
And then there’s my
work situation. It is with a heavy heart that I say this, but I am no
longer going to be able to be the host/ring announcer for Monstrosity
Championship Wrestling. My job has eliminated all forms of swapping
and schedule adjustment, so I can’t do anything to get days off
other than use vacation and I need my vacation too much to use it for
MCW. We can’t even swap days and nights anymore, so there’s just
no way around it.
I’ve already had to
miss more MCW shows than I would like. I was too busy the weekend of
my birthday to make it to the Art-B-Q and I had to work yesterday
during the Monster Bash. And just when I had thought I had October
figured out so that I could work the Six Flags shows, this new rule
came along and undid all of that. So here’s where I am – I hate
missing shows and thinking about somebody else doing my job. I hate
feeling like I am unreliable and the thought of Jonathan and Shane
ever having to work around my schedule. I don’t want to be that
guy.
I’m not gonna lie –
I’m pretty devastated. I just found out about all of this a couple
of hours ago and it hasn’t really sunk in yet. Performing at MCW is
one of the best things I have ever had the opportunity to do, but
there is simply no way around my job situation. Bills have to be
paid.
Side
Note: So after thrashing about in despair and writing poetry on black
paper with black ink and deciding that maybe the Goth lifestyle was
the one for me; and also after sending the COO of MCW a message
saying that I wouldn’t be there on July 5th
and might NOT EVER, EVER BE THERE AGAIN BECAUSE LIFE IS CRUEL AND
UNFAIR, WOE IS ME – I had a talk with my manager. While the e-mail
my work group received was perfectly clear that all swaps were ended
and undone, I thought it was worth checking to make sure this applied
to the 5th
and that there was no way around it. And there is probably a way
around it. Thankfully I am on very good terms with my manager and he
is one of the few that is aware of my life outside of that dreary
place. So we had our talk and can probably figure something out, not
only for July 5th,
but for the Six Flags shows in October as well. So that’s great.
Really
great.
As for The Trainee – he
is still busy ruining my life. I had to be extremely stern with him
the other day. Like, R. Lee Ermey in Full
Metal Jacket
stern. And I had carte blanche to do so. His fate is now essentially
in my hands. He is very slightly more competent at the job but still
a tremendously annoying human being. I would prefer to never see him
again, ever.
On a brighter note, there
is great
news about the Needless Things Podcast.
Thanks to Mrs.
Troublemaker, we will now be recording the podcast live from Odin’s
Cosmic Bookshelf in Lilburn, GA once a month. Like, in front of an
audience and stuff. Yes, folks – it’s a blatant ripoff of the
Nerdist model. And while I do not expect it to work as well for me as
it has for Chris Hardwick and his crew, it should be an awful lot of
fun. I spent some time chatting with Needless Things Podcast co-host
Mr. Beau Brown the other night and we already have our first two
shows planned out. I’m not going to say exactly what is going on
yet, but I will tell you that if you can make it to Odin’s on July
13th
or August 17th
you should. It’s going to be a good time.
Okay, well – I’ll go
ahead and say that the one in August is going to be about Dragon*Con.
Speaking of Dragon*Con,
there are some exciting things going on there that I can’t get into
just yet. Suffice it to say that I am very excited about how
different my experience is shaping up to be this year. I may not be
getting shitfaced drunk every night, but I have to say I think it is
going to be much more rewarding overall.
Well, I am breaking my
own 1000+ word rule here, but I’ve decided this is its own post. I
want the HeroesCon preview to be its own thing since there’s a
chance folks will just stumble across it from Googling or whatever.
So check back tomorrow for that one. I’m stoked to be returning
after missing last year!
-Phantom
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