Sunshine Megatron, and the year that was.

In the recent blog post I wrote on my Shea Stadium experiences, I mentioned that I had received NLCS tickets from a generous member of my Mets forum. That poster was the somewhat infamous Sunshine Megatron, who raffled the tickets off to the members of the message board I was on. I was fortunate enough to win them and found out while I was working at Sears that I had been picked, then immediately decided to risk getting in trouble by calling Luke while working to tell him about it.To say I was excited would be an understatement especially given that I’m never the kind of person to win any kind of random-chance contest, much less a ticket to an NLCS game at Shea Stadium. WOO FUCK YES.

Sunshine Megatron is also the only person I’ve ever met with his own Encyclopedia Dramatica entry:

Sunshine Megatron is the owner of T-Shirt Hell and just for the lulz is quite possibly the most offensive dickhead on all the internets, trumped only by Encyclopedia Dramatica.

- E.D.

This automatically makes him the biggest celebrity I know by a magnitude of tens of thousands. Mr. Megatron was once known as Aaron Schwarz but he changed his name as the of a contest on a website he created, www.givemeaname.com. He is also the subject of a somewhat hilarious New York Observer article in which he discusses selling a multi-million dollar apartment which is referred to as “the unkempt Megatron place.” More recently he was spotted in Denver. You can find out all you would want to know with a quick Google search.

He was quite friendly to Luke and I in person and graciously replied to a mail inquiry on his site a short time ago (I didn’t want to initially mention him by name without his permission so as to avoid the impression I was namedropping - yes, I’m ridiculous). And, of course, he was generous enough to give us field level seats to Game 6 of the 2006 NLCS at Shea Stadium, which still ranks as one of my best sports experiences ever. And for that, Mr. Megatron has my gratitude.

As for the New Year, I wish all three of my readers as well as everyone else out there a happy one. I was going to do some kind of 2008 retrospective or 2009 preview, talking about movies and books and whatnot, but then I realized I’m not nearly enough of an authority on most of that stuff to be able to say anything interesting beyond “Iron Man kicked ass!!!!1!!1!” or “I can’t wait for Watchmen to come out omg!”. Maybe I’ll post my resolutions soon so we can all look back and laugh uproariously in 12 months when I fail to succeed at most of them.

For now, though, I’ll leave you with my favorite moments of 2008. Enjoy.