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11:01 PM - 6 Comments - 8 Kudos - Add Comment

Are you gay? (don't read if you read the bulletin)
Current mood: sore

You might have noticed I changed my orientation to "gay." A girl I'm dating made a joke about me being gay, so I decided to embrace it with my own joke. Well, maybe it was funny but the manhunt.net banner ads are creeping me out. It's like the guy in the ad is staring right at me and he doesn't even want to take the time to get to know me. He just wants to use me in a non-gentle way. So, now I will probably change it back one day.
Best,
Carroll

2:28 PM - 4 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

Time to come clean

It's a month before my birthday and looking back I was wrong. I was so driven I failed my friends. It would go like this: often around this time of the year I would be promoting a show or event, like a comedy cd recording for example. I felt the pressure of having to make a profit and would look to my list of friends for help. When I noticed the name of someone I had lost touch with, panic set in. I would look pretty selfish and flaky if I just sent them an invite. So being the marketing master I am I would drop a note saying "Hey, how's it been?" "Just catching up", etc. I got so good at it I had several form emails to increase my efficiency. And it worked like a charm, they would inevitability respond with something like "How have you been? Miss you, What are you up to these days?" Then I would say "Oh I'm doing s a little show stop by, It's my birthday" etc. This would be followed by a boat load of ticket sales and a nice profit! Believe me, when done effectively marketing works! The problem is, looking back, I felt horrible pangs of guilt. Then it dawned on me, there has to be a better way. Well, that's when I decided it was time to make things right and give back. I started on a rough draft of "How to succeed in Hollywood WITHOUT marketing to your friends." I was surprised at how easy the pages flowed. So, now it's back from the editor and I'm self publishing this masterpiece as a way to give back, or "Make it right!" In this book you will discover thousands of ways to market yourself and your music, comedy, acting (or even a book), without having to bother your friends! Believe me it works! There is science in this book! You will learn proven methods that myself and others have learned along the way. As soon as the first run arrives I'll let you know here or via email, but until then believe me you owe it to yourself to spend the $19.95. You'll be glad you did and so will your friends!
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Carroll

4:35 PM - 2 Comments - 7 Kudos - Add Comment

It feels good to make a difference

My friend Dave Dayen has always pressured me about not voting, taking part in the democratic process is our duty, he would often say. For years his message fell on deaf ears, until recently. I can't explain why such a profound shift happened overnight, but it did. Thanks to his nudging I now vote! I vote everyday in fact. And you should too. Like just the other day I voted on a very important issue, the burial of Anna Nicole Smith's remains. I voted yes on cnn.com and guess what? I won!

Do you think the decision to award custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body to her daughter's legal guardian was the right one?

Yes 74% 39458 votes
No 26% 13715 votes
Total: 53173 votes

See, voting IS cool!

Thanks Dave and God bless America.

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Carlos Mencia - Dickbag of the Week

If you're not deeply entrenched in the Standup Comedy Scene like me (*wink wink*), then you may not have heard about this.

Joe Rogan of Fear Factor and The Man Show 2 fame, went up on stage at Carlos Mencia's show and started a comedy rap battle-type thing.

If you want to check it out, you can search those two on YouTube or somewhere and find it, though, last I heard, it had been taken down off of some sites. More about that later.

No, they weren't hurling jokes back and forth akin to the rap battle in that Eminem movie. That probably would have been pretty dumb.

Instead, I guess at some point, Joe Rogan had said something about Mencia stealing other peoples' jokes. Mencia goes up on stage and calls him out on it and they begin to argue back and forth. Pretty much the way the whole thing goes is: Joe Rogan cites specific examples and then Carlos Mencia calls him a bitch, tells him he's jealous or just outright denies anything every happened.

In the video I'm referencing, they intersperse this with time-stamped clips of different comedians doing certain jokes and then years later, Mencia doing jokes that are pretty similar.

Look, I'll be honest, I am not a fan of Carlos Mencia. I think his jokes are stupid and he plays to the lowest-common denominator. In this video, he looks pretty dumb. He's not really thinking on his feet that well and is clearly overwhelmed by the situation. The video examples of him actually doing what Joe Rogan has just accused him of (and he's denied) are the final nails in the coffin.

That said, I don't really want to focus on whether he's funny or not.

The thing that bothers me is, if you've watched his show, which I have, it is built around this persona he has created that is based on the old idea of "the appeal to common sense".

We all have certain opinions that we're afraid to voice, because we don't want to seem insensitive, but luckily, Carlos is here to do that for us.

If you go on the Comedy Central website and visit his page, you'll see this attitude pushed everywhere: "You Think It, He Says It!"

This is a pet peeve of mine and I think in the wrong hands, it can be very dangerous. If you've never seen it, alot of the times the bits on the show are based on ridiculous things people do that "we all know" are stupid.

Politicians are corrupt. The media is biased and focuses on trivial things while important issues are ignored. People from different cultures sometimes have misunderstandings. These are all well-worn topics of satire and well-deserving of being discussed, but admittedly nothing new.

The message I get is that people need to stop whining and being politically correct. Don't be so thin-skinned. Admit you're wrong or being stupid.

So now, he's got a bunch of people calling him out. What does he do? It seems to me, from the evidence, that he goes and whines about it. He whines to Comedy Central, who go and pressure these different websites to take the clip down. He goes and whines to Mitzi Shore, who bans Joe Rogan from the Comedy Store.

I can just imagine his advice to someone in this situation. On his show he would say, "C'mon dude, stop making excuses, come clean, you made a mistake, don't hide behind technicalities." He's done this on many occasions to other public figures.

His actions fly in the face of everything he proclaims to believe. He hates hypocrites, he'll tell you so at least 20 times per episode.

I don't want to get too grandiose here, but I think this is the problem with "the appeal to common sense". It's easy to point it out when it's someone else, but not so easy to fall through on when it's you.

9:25 PM - 6 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

Please disregard my last post

Turns out someone already has a similar post.
Thanks,
C7

11:12 AM - 4 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

Where Are The Thieves?
Current mood: artistic

Currently listening : Lovemaster's Greatest Bits By Craig Shoemaker Release date: 23 August, 2005

8:52 AM - 3 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

the most awkward complement ever

first off this is a true story (seriously)
awhile back i was on my way home from a night of hollywood parties
i had been losing weight, was dressed up and feeling pretty good
i stopped at the 7/11 to get bottled water and when i walked in this
women (who was pretty attractive) says "damn you are good looking"
i said thanks and proceeded to grab my water, when i arrived at the counter
the woman said "you are fucking fine, let me by you a drink" i started to wonder,
did someone put something in my drink earlier? am i hallucinating the 7/11?
who the f'' buys someone a drink at 7/11. then my super ego said "just keep hitting
the gym, this shit is working"......i told the woman "thanks but i'm ok, just getting water"
"ok, then let me buy you the water, you are fine!" did i mention she appeared to be drunk?
that is besides the point people. after some coaxing i agreed to let her buy me the water, the cashier says "that's $3.18" and the woman pulls out four.... one.... dollar.... food stamps.

what should i do? now, if i renig on my agreement to let her buy my water, that's an insult, right?
what did i do? i gave her a fake number, went home and drank the 1.5 liters slowly.

ok, i didn't give her a fake number, but everything else is true!

goodnight,
c7

Currently listening : Songs in the Key of Life By Stevie Wonder Release date: 13 April, 1992

1:08 PM - 7 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

A very original week......

First off (trust me it's a true story) this week a Los Angeles Laker was accused of rape.
Wtf? I really feel for Kwame. If only he played on team where another player had been through a similar situation. Then the older player could give him tips like, how to rape and score more points, how to rape and make more money. But no, the guy is all alone. This Kwame guys luck sucks!
Then, just when I thought it couldn't get any better, a Kennedy (who is a politician) got drunk/f'd up then crashed his car. If only he had a relative who could.........
I am,
Carroll Sevin

Currently listening : Ebony & Irony By Tracy Nelson Release date: 24 April, 2001

1:36 PM - 3 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

I'm getting tired of people saying I never follow through on projects, like movies, blogs and j

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12:52 PM - 4 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

what should i blog about today?
Current mood: blah

politics?
religion?
maybe i should comment on the great weather. hmmm.
you know what? i think i might blog about my cat (louie)
i think he might be bi-polar, cuz he sleeps like 16 hours and then runs around all hyper and what not.
plus he's got a boatload of credit card debt.
that's all i got,
c7

Currently reading : Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family By Dr. Phil McGraw Release date: 14 September, 2004

1:52 PM - 4 Comments - 6 Kudos - Add Comment

Get this....

 I'm usaully one to shy waway from trouble, however, I can not let this go.
Yesterday, my "friend" Pete(r) replied to my blog. I really liked what he had to say. Well, get this, I was surfing the web today and found out he didn't even write his reply!
He stole it, almost verbatim.
His name is Peter Grumbine.
If you don't belive me here's the link
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=70742
Read em and weep,
Carroll

Currently listening : The Greatest White Liar By Nic Armstrong Release date: 08 March, 2005

7:55 PM - 7 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

Originality...

When the sin is plagiarism, the crime of wordnapping, we admonish, castigate, and eliminate. We fire, encourage resignation, shun. We drive the offenders out, like the temple's moneychangers. We take away their keyboards, their access to the printing press.

What we don't do is focus on how to avoid the problem in the first place.

We live and work in an unparalleled time of access to information. Technology has opened a bottomless hole. We owe it to our blog readers and ourselves to find ways to avoid being swallowed up by it.

What causes plagiarism?

Laziness. Sloppy work habits. Deadline pressure. Writer's block. Temporary or chronic emotional problems. Maybe a conscious or unconscious desire to be punished?

I don't know what the solution is, I think plagiarism should be punished, but we all win if can we learn how to prevent it in the first place.

Any ideas?

Currently listening : Listen Like Thieves By INXS Release date: 25 October, 1990

3:54 PM - 3 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment

whoever said "it ain't easy"........
Current mood: cold

musta been talkin' bout grammar.
guess what? life is not always easy. "when the goin' gets tough...." "he who, blah blah, blah" etc..........here's one i wrote
"tough times call for quotes"
i hope to be known for that one day.
or maybe
"i hate quotes"
carroll sevin

talk to you soon!

Currently listening : Richard Simmons- O Happy Day! By Richard Simmons Release date: 03 January, 2006

10:44 AM - 3 Comments - 4 Kudos - Add Comment

goin to vegas

for a comedy compition and audition for cruise ship work...or maybe just to have fun.

be back at the improv late thursday night.

peace,

carroll

why did i say this? i dunno, so you'll know why i haven't e-mailed you back.

whatever.

10:00 AM - 1 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment