Apr 11, 2014
I thought I was a genius originally writing this.The goal was to make the story super awesome and multiple episodes like the Green Ranger Saga, but that didn't work as well as planned.You know, that whole , "I gotta do everything else before this whole thing stops again" thingie-thing took over.So where were we? Oh yeah! Duh! Green Ranger!
So, as most of guys know, we have a shirt se llama Morpholio that is inspired by Beavis and Butthead, the Power Rangers and focuses on the White Ranger and Green Ranger. So, months ago, I hit up some people about the shirt, and didn't get a response. No big, happens all the time right? (It does).
As I'm scrambling through the event, a bud of mine named Ricky is working as are a bunch of other Sacramento locals.Ricky ALWAYS has cool celebs on his Instagram and it's like his mutant power to find the coolest people within a 3 mile radius and magically be in a photo with them (true story). So , lone behold he's at the event and guess who he's working with as security? You guessed it, Tommy, er Jason David Frank.
We talk about shoes ( both members of Sneakerheads of Sacramento) , so kicks always come up one way or another with all the shoeheads around here.He mentions the event and work or something or other after we talk about the price of the Nike Air Mags right now (Back to the future looking shoe that's crazy awesome).After such exchange, I drink two Redbull Slurpees.
After the Redbull Slurpee hit, I came back to my senses, I leave my table solo (abandoner here) , and go to the area Ricky is working with JDF.I'm not really familiar with Comic-Con , but the fans were CRAZY.So there's this area just for them to line up and get all their fav autographs.It's kind of like a registration line at other events, but the line is HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEE... so, I do my best shadow step through all the fans to the front.After a few crazy looks , I see Ricky, and toss him a shirt and poster for Tommy...nothing special right?
Maybe 3 hours go by, and Ricky comes back.Hey man, "Jason says meet him at 230"..Jason who? I don't know a Jason.. so, I exclaim just that."You don't know Jason, what was all that stuff for then?". And then it clicks..THE GREEN RANGER WANTS TO MEET MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...then I proceed to have the biggest Miss Piggy on Rollerskates Hyperventilating nerdout in the history of the world....THE WORLLLLLLLDDDD!
After breaking down 10-12 times and realizing this was indeed happening, it was about 230...(time went FAST). I then proceeded to plan to tell Tommy all of these cool things and crack a joke after making some awkward joke about disliking the Blue Ranger, or at least that's how it was planned.It didn't go that way.
I stood to the side of the booth. Tommy then looked at me. His eyes widened, he then called me over. It was like being that four year old who gets picked out of the audience to do magic with the magician, but instead I'm 200 plus pounds and my Elmo shirt is now, well, a Power Rangers one (huge upgrade right)...he then halted his line, asked me to take a picture with him and held up the poster after asking if we had anymore for him.
I honestly tried to make my joke and all that came out was "I- I - I- -IIIII'm a big fan", he nodded...and during the photo, I passed out a total of 18 times. After this, I awoke with a picture of myself blinking (yes,blinking) and a Saba in my hand that I don't remember being mine , but it had signature on it.
It was the best moment ever not involving a Slurpee or Carlton dance.
There's no words for how crazy the weekend was, it was so crazy and the people were so awesome and positive, it was just...WOW. So, I'm just trying to share the experience with you.Expect a video or extra content a different day, just felt kind of putsy for not doing it earlier.Thanks for reading the rant! -h_h-
Try Hard, Never Settle, Stay Hungry -h_h-
