Our technical difficulties are a thing of the past. Scroll down on this post to find out what’s happening with Last Comic Standing, what happened on our trip to Orlando and how our recent trip to Brooklyn turned out!

(We were unable to post here for the past 15 days or so. In that time, we were at least able to keep in touch with some of our readers and friends and associates via our myspace page and myspace bulletins and blog. BTW: If it ever looks like we’re down for any length of time, our myspace is a good place to find out what the problem might be and a good place to find any interim or emergency posts.)

1. Last Comic Standing RUMOR

SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t want to know what happens in this season’s Last Comic Standing, look away from your screen now!

Kicked out of house so far:

Stella Stolper
Joey Gay
Bil Dwyer
April Macie
Gabriel Iglesias

Sorry to ruin the suspense. Hey, we were just cited in the Rocky Mountain News as a source for a story on “local comic Josh Blue,” in a column by RMN columnist Penny Parker, so we’re digging the traffic. This is the inevitable collision of reality television and the internet: The producers of the show can’t keep a lid on the “surprises” because of the immediacy of the internet and because of their inability to figure out how information eventually makes its way to the blogs. Hmmm… too bad.

2. Vacation Mode!

We devised a convenient way of reminding those in our vacation contingent that we were in “Vacation Mode.” The V. and the M., crudely formed and flashed, gansta-style, instantly conveys the message that, “We are 1,000 miles away from the hustle and the bustle of home– Enjoy yourself!” It works. Try it yourself next time you’re on vacation. We even got the little kiddies to do it… or at least try to do it. (See illustration below)

Flashing signals from the happiest place on earth! (We’re protecting their identities so they don’t get “capped” by rival princess gang members.)

3. Holy Mattress-Mony in Brooklyn!

With hardly 24 hours to recover from our return from Orlando, we were expected in Brooklyn Monday night, to appear on the bill at Pete’s Candy Store, as part of the Holy Mattress-Mony Show. FOS Lord Carrett joined comedian/producer Jen Dziura in marriage (in what we hear was a lovely ceremony at the legendary CBGB’s!) the day before.

Unfortunately, the Female Half was unable to represent the magazine– the untimely victim of a bug of some sort (no doubt distributed by a member of our Princess Posse. See illustration above). The Male Half had a swell time at a well-attended show, sharing the bill with the newly-minted couple (see other illustration above) and not-so-newly-minted couple Leighann Lord and Jim Mendrinos, and special guests Margo Leitman and Mark Day. The quirky performance space that is Pete’s Candy Store resembles that of a vintage rail car in its dimensions. (We wouldn’t be at all surprised if it actually was a rail car in a previous life!)