Thank you!

Thanks to all that voted in the Reader's Best of the city Poll! You netted the Hot Karl the title of Best Improv Group in the City!
You also netted CSz the best place to cee improv that's not Second City or IO!
Your reward? Hot Karl Podcast 12 is available on hotkarlpodcast.com right NOW!

One for the highlight reel...

I played comedysportz last night and correctly guessed "Federalists" as the final item in 5 Things as time ran out. The audience's faces fell off. That's why I love performing.

Monster Zero

So, in my last post, I felt obligated to put a zero in for the o in c0ck ring.
I hate that I have to censor myself, but I do it in hopes that you, the reader, won't be blocked from reading it. It's Something of a catch-22 (a better book than expression, if you haven't read it).
At any rate, I have blogged in the past about the power of words and one's "right" to use words, for whatever purpose (though mine's most often comedy). Esquire has had 2 good articles in the past 2 months. One on the state of American bigotry, and this month's on bringing back Son of a Bitch to replace the more commonplace epithets of late of "Asshole" and "Douchebag".
The most poignant point made is "...words should sting. They should offend [when there is intent]. They should be able to make us want to cover our ears or cringe or cower. A world without [offensive words] is like a world without exclamation points." Thank you, Esquire's Chris Jones.

Spam. Hilarious Spam.

So, I got a "comment" on my last blog post. I know none of you saw it, since precious few of you comment on my musings, if you're still reading this at all...
It reads:
Hi,

I am the webmaster of www.peloop.com

I find your blog very interesting to read. Your way of writing can magnet and lure a lot of visitors/readers. Would you be able to write about our product after visiting our site?

Or if you have a friend who is interested to try our product, we can send you one. From this, you can gain insights and share your friend's experience to us.

I would really be interested to know if you would be able to post your findings/review in your blog, it may be a positive or negative one, with links to our site.



Regards,
Sara Smith
greenAphrodite@gmail.com


Stupidly, I went to peloop.com. It's a c0ck ring. So, apparently my blog is an interesting read enough to make it apparent that I need a c0ck ring. I guess it's from my blog post about dick meds.

Even more stupidly, I'm blogging about this. So, in essence, they're getting what they want.

In Charlotte: a clarification

I'm sure plenty of you grocked what I meant by "healthy", but suffice it to say that we took to calling Charlotte mini Vegas after watching the talent stream by on warm weekend evenings.
Damn.

Remember that wedding I went to?

Here's some pictures and a video from the incredible (and incredibly foxy) photographer Allyson Magda.
You're looking for the Matt & Meghan post dated 5.29.
See what I mean about how it was magazine-worthy?

My brain is scratchy

It's 2:52 AM Charlotte time. Waiting for the finishing touches to be put on the phone system. It's been a hell of a long weekend.
woooo?
Big Hot karl Show this weekend. A party and an alumni show featuring Heather Simms and Frank Caeti (so far). Get there.

In Charlotte

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Stylin' and profilin' in Charlotte this weekend for the office move. The peoplewatching is excellent. Many of them are healthy.