To the people that are already putting up your Christmas trees--all i have to say to that is-- really? It isn't even December yet. The last thing i want to do is think about Christmas. We're not even close to getting ready. I guess I'm the grinch this year. Oh well.
On a related note. Once again I have skipped my works Christmas party. That's 12 years in a row baby!! Why break my streak now? That would be wrong.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Black Friday blues.
Well it was the second day off in a row that work made us take. Its Black Friday in the states. Its a big holiday where all the stores in America have gigantic sales and customers line up and almost kill everyone trying to get the deals. We have American customers and the powers that be don't want us calling anyone today. It sort of sucks. Kath still has to work and Diana is in school so its kind of boring around here, Today Kath dropped me off downtown. She works downtown now. I hung out at a Tim Hortons for an hour and then went to Mostly Comics to get my books. Although it had snowed last night it was pretty warm out so i walked home while listening to music on my ipod. I got home and immediately started to miss the family. Hopefully next time i'll get a day off with Diana and Kath. Hopefully no one died this Black Friday trying to get a deal on a toaster or something.
The day i loved the day job
So i guess i should tell the tale of how i wound up with two tickets to the Hammer town comic con. Its actually a pretty cool story.
Longtime followers of the blog will remember that I'm not a fan of my day job. I have never taken part in any extra activities my work has done. I've never even been to one of my staff Christmas parties in the last 12 years. In mid September i read that our work was going to have a comic con themed day. I thought it was a cool idea but figured I would stay out of it. As i was leaving work a guy i kind of recognized came running up to me and asked what i was doing for comic con day. I replied probably nothing. Then he asked me if i was still doing the pod cast? Ok i was starting to get curious. I guess my name was given to the committee in charge of the event and they were interested in me doing the pod cast at work. I quickly changed my tune and said that i was indeed interested. It turns out the gut i recognized was also friends with Paul who runs Pulp Comics and his name was Dusty,
So the following week for the first time ever i was excited to go to work. I even wore my half assed Clark Kent costume. I gotta tell--in 12 years it was the coolest day i ever had at work. There were super hero movies being played on the tvs and people in costumes. There were giveaways and super hero music being played in the hallway and free bags of popcorn. I sat at the front with Dusty. Man that guy knows his stuff. I set up the dice game that we run when we have appearances at cons. I was a bit nervous as it was the first time i had run a table without Kath, I recorded a full day of answers and had an excellent time. One of the ladies in charge--Meagan said i did an awesome job and would consider me for future events. Oh yeah i wasn't complaining that this also got me off of the phones all day.
The next day as i was sitting at my desk wishing i was doing the podcast, i was visited at my desk by Meagan. She produced a comic book looking statue with a panel that said best pod caster. So i guess that technically we now have an award winning pod cast. The icing on the cake was that i was also presented with the tickets to Hammer town for doing such a good job. It was such a great moment. I'll never forget it.
Longtime followers of the blog will remember that I'm not a fan of my day job. I have never taken part in any extra activities my work has done. I've never even been to one of my staff Christmas parties in the last 12 years. In mid September i read that our work was going to have a comic con themed day. I thought it was a cool idea but figured I would stay out of it. As i was leaving work a guy i kind of recognized came running up to me and asked what i was doing for comic con day. I replied probably nothing. Then he asked me if i was still doing the pod cast? Ok i was starting to get curious. I guess my name was given to the committee in charge of the event and they were interested in me doing the pod cast at work. I quickly changed my tune and said that i was indeed interested. It turns out the gut i recognized was also friends with Paul who runs Pulp Comics and his name was Dusty,
So the following week for the first time ever i was excited to go to work. I even wore my half assed Clark Kent costume. I gotta tell--in 12 years it was the coolest day i ever had at work. There were super hero movies being played on the tvs and people in costumes. There were giveaways and super hero music being played in the hallway and free bags of popcorn. I sat at the front with Dusty. Man that guy knows his stuff. I set up the dice game that we run when we have appearances at cons. I was a bit nervous as it was the first time i had run a table without Kath, I recorded a full day of answers and had an excellent time. One of the ladies in charge--Meagan said i did an awesome job and would consider me for future events. Oh yeah i wasn't complaining that this also got me off of the phones all day.
The next day as i was sitting at my desk wishing i was doing the podcast, i was visited at my desk by Meagan. She produced a comic book looking statue with a panel that said best pod caster. So i guess that technically we now have an award winning pod cast. The icing on the cake was that i was also presented with the tickets to Hammer town for doing such a good job. It was such a great moment. I'll never forget it.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Dammit
Wow. No sooner do i type up my experience with getting press passes then i see a guest announcement for the next Niagara Falls comic con. The stars of Comic book men.
Comic book men is a show that is on a m c and stars the friends of Kevin Smith who run a comic book store in New Jersey. Two of the guys Walt and Bry have also been a bunch of Kevin Smiths movies. I would kill to interview these guys. I'd have so many questions. Kevin Smith movies were a big part of why Kath and i met originally, The movie Dogma had been released around the time we had met. We decided that if nothing came out of us meeting that we would at least get together to see the movie.
What do you guys think? Will this be the year that Kath and i finally get press passes so we can interview these guys? Star tuned true believer.
Comic book men is a show that is on a m c and stars the friends of Kevin Smith who run a comic book store in New Jersey. Two of the guys Walt and Bry have also been a bunch of Kevin Smiths movies. I would kill to interview these guys. I'd have so many questions. Kevin Smith movies were a big part of why Kath and i met originally, The movie Dogma had been released around the time we had met. We decided that if nothing came out of us meeting that we would at least get together to see the movie.
What do you guys think? Will this be the year that Kath and i finally get press passes so we can interview these guys? Star tuned true believer.
We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
So October the 5th came. We had free tickets for a con that i really had no desire to go to. Diana got in free as well and we brought her friend Sarah as well. The best part of the day would be our interview with Claudia Wells from Back To The Future. I had 10 questions ready and not all of then were Back To The Future related. We jumped in the car and headed to the Hamilton convention centre. We had been there for Con Bravo in July and had a great time.
We arrived and went inside and then we realized that Diana's friend Sarah is terrified of crowds--especially ones that consist of people in weird costumes. She immediately had a panic attack. Kath had to go in the hall way with her to try and keep her calm. There was no way we'd be able to take her back in. I was gonna be on my own for the interview.
Can i talk a little about the con set up? Lets see how can i put this nicely. It was a cluster fuck.Al the artists,vendors and celebrities were crammed into one room. At con bravo that one room was the artist alley. It was hard to move around in and they were letting people leave out the entrance. I wasn't a fan. I kind of like breathing.
Nervously i approached Claudia Wells table. She was really busy so wanted to schedule the interview for later on in the day. Much like her email she was so nice. She is also gorgeous. See the pic i found online as an example of that. We talked for a few minutes and it was decided that i should come back in two hours.I was in a good mood. Would that mood last?
So we'll fast forward a couple hours. It was interview time. I had researched Claudia Wells stuff all week and i thought i had some awesome questions. So i did my intro and asked the first question. She started to answer and then asked me to re start the interview. Oh shit. What had i done? I asked what was wrong and she said i had asked a question that she had answered many times and wanted to know if i had any original questions. My heart sank. I checked out my questions and didn't know where to go to next. I began to sweat and um and ah a lot. So i nervously got through 5 of my 10 questions. I thought i had failed and i immediately went into shock. It felt like the worst interview i had ever done. In the middle of it there was an announcement over the loud speaker. It kept getting worse. I concluded the interview and i thought i might cry. She thanked me for the interview and wanted us to send her a copy of it. I thanked her and left and still in shock i texted Kath. Kath told me not to worry and that she would work her editing magic. Regardless i left that con in a bad mood vowing to never return.
Fast forward a few weeks and Kath did edit up the interview and attached it to a recent back to the future show that we had done with John and a few others. As promised we sent Claudia Wells a copy of the interview. Guess what she did? She posted a link to it on her personal web site!! Like i said she was a really nice lady and i guess i can understand that after 30 years you might get sick of answering the same questions. As for future cons? We will continue to ask Chris for press passes. We ain't gonna give up that easy. We're making a name for ourselves and the other cons have been really supportive. I'm excited to see where We Got The Geek goes next year.
We arrived and went inside and then we realized that Diana's friend Sarah is terrified of crowds--especially ones that consist of people in weird costumes. She immediately had a panic attack. Kath had to go in the hall way with her to try and keep her calm. There was no way we'd be able to take her back in. I was gonna be on my own for the interview.
Can i talk a little about the con set up? Lets see how can i put this nicely. It was a cluster fuck.Al the artists,vendors and celebrities were crammed into one room. At con bravo that one room was the artist alley. It was hard to move around in and they were letting people leave out the entrance. I wasn't a fan. I kind of like breathing.
Nervously i approached Claudia Wells table. She was really busy so wanted to schedule the interview for later on in the day. Much like her email she was so nice. She is also gorgeous. See the pic i found online as an example of that. We talked for a few minutes and it was decided that i should come back in two hours.I was in a good mood. Would that mood last?
So we'll fast forward a couple hours. It was interview time. I had researched Claudia Wells stuff all week and i thought i had some awesome questions. So i did my intro and asked the first question. She started to answer and then asked me to re start the interview. Oh shit. What had i done? I asked what was wrong and she said i had asked a question that she had answered many times and wanted to know if i had any original questions. My heart sank. I checked out my questions and didn't know where to go to next. I began to sweat and um and ah a lot. So i nervously got through 5 of my 10 questions. I thought i had failed and i immediately went into shock. It felt like the worst interview i had ever done. In the middle of it there was an announcement over the loud speaker. It kept getting worse. I concluded the interview and i thought i might cry. She thanked me for the interview and wanted us to send her a copy of it. I thanked her and left and still in shock i texted Kath. Kath told me not to worry and that she would work her editing magic. Regardless i left that con in a bad mood vowing to never return.
Fast forward a few weeks and Kath did edit up the interview and attached it to a recent back to the future show that we had done with John and a few others. As promised we sent Claudia Wells a copy of the interview. Guess what she did? She posted a link to it on her personal web site!! Like i said she was a really nice lady and i guess i can understand that after 30 years you might get sick of answering the same questions. As for future cons? We will continue to ask Chris for press passes. We ain't gonna give up that easy. We're making a name for ourselves and the other cons have been really supportive. I'm excited to see where We Got The Geek goes next year.
The worst con ever : Part one
So wow. People actually noticed i hadn't been blogging. I'll give a quick shout out to my buddy Andrea. I guess she's been waiting for a new blog for awhile. Bless her heart! Well lets see if i can entertain her and my legion of fans.
I'll tell ya about an experience we had at a brand new comic book convention called Hammer Town On October 5th. I actually won a pair of tickets otherwise there's no way in hell i would have supported it.
So if you recall Kath and I had tried to get press passes to the Niagara Falls comic con for the last couple of years. You may recall an older blog where i talk about how a guy named Chris keeps screwing us over every year and never gives us a good reason why. Anyhow Chris was in charge of a brand new con in Hamilton. It was an untested con at a time of year that a lot of people aren't going to cons.
Our good friend John Bulmer suggested we try for press passes again. I didn't feel like getting rejected again. John explained that if he turns us down for press passes to an untested con then he's just being an asshole. So Kath wrote up a massive email of all the stuff we've accomplished in such a short time with We Got The Geek. It was an impressive list and email. I started to think that we might have a shot. Then we got the response and---no. Shut out again. Apparently we weren't getting the numbers on our site that would be necessary to cover a brand new untested event. Seriously? Screw that. We weren't gonna go and support it then. I love comic cons so it takes a lot for me to pass up the chance to go to one.
Then they started announcing guests. No one special. As a matter of fact most of the guests had already appeared at the Niagara Falls con. Way to reach for the stars Chris! Then an announcement that made me sad that i wasn't going. Three actors from one of my all time favorite movies Back To The Future. Now lets keep in mind that it wasn't Michael J Fox or Christopher Lloyd. It was Claudia Wells who played Marty's girlfriend and also the actors that played Principal Strickland and Mayor Goldie Wilson. Man i loved that movie and it would be cool to interview any of them.
Then as fate would have it i won some tickets. Thats a story for another blog coming soon. I decided (and pardon my french) fuck it. Chris may have turned us down but I'm gonna contact Claudia Wells ahead of time and ask her for an interview. Kath was really concerned. What would Chris do if he saw us walking around doing interviews with no press passes. Um, not give us press passes again? Who gives a shit what he thinks. So we messaged Claudia Wells and she responded right away. What a nice lady. She agreed to an interview. I was in seventh heaven. So lets sum up n less than a year we had interviewed actors from Star Wars and Big Bang Theory and now Back to the Future? Yes i was slightly proud of our pod cast and a little disappointed that none of this stuff happened three years ago when we were doing the live show. So i prepared some questions for the big day. How did it go over? You'll have to read the next blog to find out!
I'll tell ya about an experience we had at a brand new comic book convention called Hammer Town On October 5th. I actually won a pair of tickets otherwise there's no way in hell i would have supported it.
So if you recall Kath and I had tried to get press passes to the Niagara Falls comic con for the last couple of years. You may recall an older blog where i talk about how a guy named Chris keeps screwing us over every year and never gives us a good reason why. Anyhow Chris was in charge of a brand new con in Hamilton. It was an untested con at a time of year that a lot of people aren't going to cons.
Our good friend John Bulmer suggested we try for press passes again. I didn't feel like getting rejected again. John explained that if he turns us down for press passes to an untested con then he's just being an asshole. So Kath wrote up a massive email of all the stuff we've accomplished in such a short time with We Got The Geek. It was an impressive list and email. I started to think that we might have a shot. Then we got the response and---no. Shut out again. Apparently we weren't getting the numbers on our site that would be necessary to cover a brand new untested event. Seriously? Screw that. We weren't gonna go and support it then. I love comic cons so it takes a lot for me to pass up the chance to go to one.
Then they started announcing guests. No one special. As a matter of fact most of the guests had already appeared at the Niagara Falls con. Way to reach for the stars Chris! Then an announcement that made me sad that i wasn't going. Three actors from one of my all time favorite movies Back To The Future. Now lets keep in mind that it wasn't Michael J Fox or Christopher Lloyd. It was Claudia Wells who played Marty's girlfriend and also the actors that played Principal Strickland and Mayor Goldie Wilson. Man i loved that movie and it would be cool to interview any of them.
Then as fate would have it i won some tickets. Thats a story for another blog coming soon. I decided (and pardon my french) fuck it. Chris may have turned us down but I'm gonna contact Claudia Wells ahead of time and ask her for an interview. Kath was really concerned. What would Chris do if he saw us walking around doing interviews with no press passes. Um, not give us press passes again? Who gives a shit what he thinks. So we messaged Claudia Wells and she responded right away. What a nice lady. She agreed to an interview. I was in seventh heaven. So lets sum up n less than a year we had interviewed actors from Star Wars and Big Bang Theory and now Back to the Future? Yes i was slightly proud of our pod cast and a little disappointed that none of this stuff happened three years ago when we were doing the live show. So i prepared some questions for the big day. How did it go over? You'll have to read the next blog to find out!
Happy 50th you wacky time lord
Happy belated 50th anniversary Doctor Who! My parents used to watch this show in the 1970's on tv Ontario. The only thing i remembered were the opening credits with Tom Baker's huge Doctor head taking up the whole screen. My first experience watching and remembering a Doctor Who episode was in 1996. At that point the Doctor hadn't been on tv in 7 years. There was a movie on the Fox channel. At the time i watched it because we got 3 channels and nothing else was on. I rewatched this movie last week and it wasn't as bad as i remembered.
I recently got into the show and have been loving it. The new series started in 2005.We got to see an awesome Doctor Who 50th anniversary movie over the weekend. Thank you to Ryan for inviting us over to watch on his big screen tv. It was pretty kick ass. There will next be a Doctor Who special on Christmas day and then a new season with a new Doctor hopefully next summer.
I recently got into the show and have been loving it. The new series started in 2005.We got to see an awesome Doctor Who 50th anniversary movie over the weekend. Thank you to Ryan for inviting us over to watch on his big screen tv. It was pretty kick ass. There will next be a Doctor Who special on Christmas day and then a new season with a new Doctor hopefully next summer.
Thanksgiving time.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends or as we call it here in Canada Thursday. I am thankful for an awesome family. I am also thankful that We Got The Geek is getting stronger everyday. I'm not gonna lie i am thankful for the extra turkey in November!
what's the password Kenneth?
An interesting aside before i do a real blog. I hadn't blogged in so long that i had forgotten the password to get into my account. I struggled for about twenty minutes before i got in.I suppose i shouldn't wait so long between blogs. I wonder how many times that i can use the word blog in this entry. Blog blog bloggitty blog! Ok I'm done. So I'll be back later for more blog action.
Back to the blog
So hey everyone. Long time no see. I've done one blog in almost three months. Yup that is odd for me for sure. Some good stuff has happened and some bad stuff has as well. Such is life. A lot of factors account for why i haven't blogged. The main reason is I'm just too darn tired after work and all i want to do is lay on the couch and watch tv. Also i find that if I'm sad i don't feel like blogging either. There's been a few days where I have felt sad. Is that normal by the way?Anyhow i am off today. I work for an American company and today is American thanksgiving--or as its known in Canada, Thursday! So since its an American holiday, I've been given the day off.It kind of sucks. Kath still has to work and Diana is still at school so basically i'm home alone,feeling lonely as hell. Since I'm off i figured I'd write up a few blogs today. Hopefully i can remember some stuff we've some between September and November.So I have to do a couple of chores but i promise i will be back later. Have a great day everyone!
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