SyFriday: Mayhem At Comic-Con

This is the first ever time I've attended the convention, a little hard to do when you're a few thousand miles away from the venue. But in the 10 years that SyFy Portal existed, Comic-Con went from a huge convention to a must-attend convention for anyone and everyone in the entertainment industry whether you're a writer, actor, producer, or even a journalist.

So I will be making the trip out there along with SyFy Portal columnist Ed Left and many of my colleagues including Daniel Malen from The TV Addict and Jay Wheeler over at DoorQ.

Something I talk about a lot, especially recently, is a small condition I have that I think is actually more common in the general population than most people realize.

It's a condition that actually has a few names like enochlophobia, ochlophobia, or even demophobia. But basically, unlike a fear of heights or a fear of spiders, this is more of a social phobia which means it doesn't pose any real danger to a person like heights would (when gravity is present), but more or less is something that people have to overcome.

It's also a phobia that's not taken too seriously. In fact, I went to get some data on enochlophobia, but Wikipedia has absolutely nothing on it. Apparently they did at one time, because I can find some cached pages on it, but I guess it's not important enough to have a Wikipedia listing.

Weird.

In any event, I bring this up because Comic-Con will be my biggest challenge in trying to beat enochlophobia yet. Attending a convention with 140,000 people is probably the best way to do it. As long as I stay focused on my job, and stay distracted away from people's conversation or mere presence, I think I will do quite well.

Or I could end up huddled in my hotel room calling out for my mom. Who knows.

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