Who knew that so many people would care about what I thought? I started this blog because one of my sibling(s) (yes, I’m now at the point where I can't even say if I have a brother, a sister, brothers, sisters, a brother and a sister, brothers and a sister, sisters and a brother, a stepdog, large calf muscles, like the Tigers, enjoy Slurpees or sleep with the tv on because I'm being profiled at work and by all of the cyber detectives out there). Anyway, as I was saying, one of my sibling(s) had one and he/she said he/she enjoyed doing it. So I started one. I wrote a few entries and realized that I did enjoy doing it. It was free therapy. It felt like I had a diary or a journal (and who knows one day when I got published, I could actually collect the entries into a book to get published). Granted it was a diary that people had access to but other than the few people that I told about it, I really didn't think anyone would see it.  Then I heard about companies using MySpace and Facebook searches as part of hiring process. So I thought ok, maybe I need to be a little more careful so I started a different blog with some edits. But still, I already had a job so that wasn't that big of a concern and what were the chances of anyone I didn't know actually reading it? Seriously, there are like 7,345,651,876 blogs out there, who the hell was going to find mine, let alone read it? Apparently a lot of people. I'm not sure who stumbled across it but when it got a mentioned in an article, thats when things started getting out of hand. Yeah, I didn't help teh situation and I enjoyed the fact that people were reading my stuff but it still got way out of hand. I'm at the point where I could actually get fired and according to what I've read sued! How the hell did that happen????? I was just writing about my life and some stuff at work. Next thing I know, people are attacking me online and IT's checking browser histories. And on top of that, I am getting cease and desist letters from the legal department. This was a journal. A freaking blog. Everyone is doing them. 90% of the people that work here are doing them. There are old ladies in North Dakota doing them. It's not a newspaper. It's not a magazine. It's my personal thoughts. It's my opinions. How can I get sued for libel because I wrote what I thought? I'm pretty sure that is protected under the Bill of Rights (yeah, I'm a little addicted to John Adams - great I just told everyone I get HBO, another piece to the puzzle of who I am...or maybe one of my friend’s do)

Anyway, it seems that this thing could get me in real trouble and that's not why I started it. Maybe I was a little too honest on how I felt or maybe I went a little too far on my critiques. But if I did, it was only because I care. I wasn't looking to hurt anybody or take food off of anyone's tables I wasn't looking for my 15 minutes. (I plan on getting that the right way through my writing, and trust me, its going to last longer than just 15 minutes.) I was just trying to point out what I thought was wrong as far as some of the things that we’re doing. It's how you get things fixed and make sure they get better. You talk about a problem and figure out a way to fix it. People do that all of the time. Why my blog became such a big deal I have no idea. And I know there's gonna be a lot of you out there saying that it was the "spoilers" but I hate to tell you that my blogs are about much more than just spoilers. They were about a guy who loves comics and works in the industry giving some insights on how we can make comic books better. How we can take characters that are broken and fix them so that the fans love them again. I don't get why that's wrong. If I worked at bank and saw something that didn't make sense, would I get in trouble for saying that I know a better way of doing it? No, I'd probably get a promotion and a raise and an actual office. But instead I got attacked and now possibly fired. What sense does that make? Let's fire the guy that is trying to make our company better. That'll learn'em!

Whatever. The bottom line is that this was supposed to be fun and relaxing and all it's done is created problems and make me lose hair. I've got enough things to worry about without throwing in the possibility of having my IP tracked  And it's really not a lot of fun showing up to work every day for the last two weeks wondering if I’m going to get called up to HR for a "discussion". I do actually like my job and the concept of being able to pay my rent every month. I work at a comic book company, how cool is that? I've seen some things here that I didn't expect and didn't like but then again, I ain't getting up at 5 in the morning to lay cement either. And this is only the beginning of my career. This job is just the first step in me getting into the industry. So when I do start to get some recognition and fans, things will change and then thats when I'm going to be able to change things too. Wouldn't be the first time a writer got put in charge. So I dance the dance for now. If your tangled up, just tango out and that's what I'm gonna do.