I’m
going to have a busy weekend.
It’s
been far too long since I’ve gotten up in front of people and
performed in any capacity. My day job has prevented me from taking a
couple of opportunities – sorry, Possum Kingdom Ramblers – and
when I have been available there just hasn’t been anything going
on. I’ve been pathetically slack about scheduling another Whose
EFF is it, Anyway? because
I’m lazy and I hate
organizing people; even reliable ones. And for a time it looked as
though Monstrosity Championship Wrestling might be dead.
Not that I have any
problem with entertaining friends, but I can do that from the comfort
of my home.
So
Whose EFF has
proven to be a different thing than I thought it would be. I was
hoping for a quarterly event, but it may just be a Dragon Con thing.
Which makes me sad because I’d really like to work with Dana and
Rueben more. They’re exciting and I think they bring out good
things in me.
But there are other
things to do, and I’m doing them this weekend.
On Friday night,
Monstrosity Championship Wrestling will be returning to The
Masquerade, along with two other promotions. I’ll be hosting along
with my best ghoul gal pal, Ghouella Deville. Here’s the card:
Wrestling with Pop
Culture
Presents
Culture Shock at The
Masquerade
Wrestling
with Pop Culture celebrates
its fourth anniversary with an extravaganza of wrestling, music and
other entertainment in Heaven at The
Masquerade on
Friday, March 13, hosted by Needless
Things‘
Phantom Troublemaker and Ghouella
Deville!
In
their debut event, the ladies of ROAR Women’s Pro
Wrestling take you to heaven with all-female action featuring
the Bullet Club’s Amber O’Neal Gallows and Amanda
Rodriguez taking on Devyn Nicole and My
Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding‘s Priscilla
Kelly, Jessie
Belle vs.
Sara Nox and Resistance
Pro Women’s
Champion Mickie
“Moose” Knuckles in
action.
Atlanta
Wrestling Entertainment pits
Team Jimmy Rave (Rave, Murder One, Raphael King and
the “No Pain Train” Iceberg) against Team Chip
Day (Day, Kyle
Matthews, Mike Cruz and Resistance Pro Heavyweight Champion and
Strong Style Heavyweight Champion Sugar
Dunkerton) in
its main event. Owen Knight takes on Jake Hughes and Put
Over the World (Caleb
Konley and Zane
Riley) takes on The Circle of Disrespect (Francisco
Ciatso and Simon
Sez, with Kevin Pierce) in other AWE action.
In
a special Friday the 13th frightful feature match, Monstrosity
Championship Wrestling Underworld Champion “The Lethal Dose”
Stryknyn defends his title against “The Violence
Artist” Trever Aeon. Other MCW stars such as Dragula,
the Kentucky Wolfman, the Chattanooga Wolfman, Papa
Marko, End Zone (with Quozzy Quozzbourne) and Total
Wrestling Entertainment
Champion Drew Game will also be part of the event, with
commentary by DeWitt Dawson and Son
of Celluloid‘s
Nathan Hamilton!
Ascension’s
DJ Lechter spins industrial, goth, rock, hip-hop and metal between
matches, with a sideshow performance by Captain
& Maybelle (as
seen on America’s
Got Talent and The
Hunger Games: Catching
Fire)!
Atlanta
Beverage Company will
be launching its new Day of the Dead beer at this event. Get there
early for a meet and greet with the stars of the show, including
former WWE SmackDown General
Manager and National
Wrestling Alliance Hall of Famer
Teddy Long! Doors open at 8 p.m. Bell time is 9 p.m. Tickets are only
$13 in advance, $15 at the door and can be purchased here.
This is a kickass card.
Mickie Knuckles is the
chick that broke her fucking femur and then came back to wrestling.
She will be the toughest person in the building by far and I can’t
wait to see her in action.
The AWE main event is
just stupid good. Those eight guys are going to put on a heck of a
match.
As for MCW, Trevor Aeon
is quick, exciting, and a heck of a competitor, but Stryknyn is one
of the meanest, toughest motherfuckers I’ve ever seen. Aeon
definitely has a speed advantage is capable of some dazzling moves,
but if Stryknyn grounds him and gets his hands on The Artist, it’s
going to be over quick.
I’m
excited to be getting out and doing some ring announcing again and
I’m really
excited that it’s for such a big event. I’ll be the general host
and ring announcing for MCW, but ROAR and AWE have their own
announcers, so I’ll be hanging out and partying. Buy me a beer.
The rest of my weekend
will be spent at Joelanta and The Great Atlanta Toy Convention’s
big event at The Marriott Century Center.
If you’ve been
following the site or the Podcast, you know that this is a huge deal
to me. Toys are obviously a central part of Needless Things, and this
convention is all about toys. I’ll be presenting a panel for
Needless Things called The History of Character Toys, where I’ll be
discussing how toys and licensing have interacted over the years.
Here’s the blurb:
2-2:45pm
History of Character Toys Panel:
Join Phantom Troublemaker as he brings the informative and
interactive Needless Things Toy Panel to the Great Atlanta Toy
Convention for the first time ever!
Phantom
brings the experience and enthusiasm of over thirty years of toy
collecting to a group session where everybody gets to learn and have
fun. The subject of the Great Atlanta Toy Convention panel will be
Toys of Character – the history of our favorite licensed toys! From
the earliest days of Mickey Mouse and Buck Rogers to modern-day toy
aisle monsters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we’ll jump
around the history of plastic characters and let you, the audience,
determine where we land!
Come
on out for toy talk and prizes, and bring stories of your own
favorites to share with the crowd!
Be
sure to check out NeedlessThingsSite.com and the Needless Things
Podcast for toys, music, movies, wrestling, and all manner of pop
culture dorkery!
I’ll admit that I got a
little huckster-y with that one, but I’m playing to a largely
unknown audience. I wanted to sell it the best I could.
So
that’s Sunday at 2 PM, but there’s all kinds of other stuff going
on all weekend, including panels with Larry Hama, Jeremy Fisher from
Robot Chicken,
and more! Listen to yesterday's Needless Things Podcast
and visit Joelanta.org to learn more!
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