Sadly, we paid final tribute to one of our own Sunday night. By 'one of our own', I mean as in talk show hosts. Carl, known on the talk show circuit as 'AskCarl' did a number of shows, and is best known for his ShoeString E-Commerce, which was his most active. His amazing website, chock full of information of all types, was the WDS Library.
He was smart, compassionate, funny, kind, sharing, and a seeker of knowledge. He knew so much stuff that it was mind boggling, and yet, he managed to ask more information of everyone he knew. I listened to those who paid tribute to him on Patti Serano's show last night, and each person had an example of how Carl was asking them for advice, or opinions, or information. He made each person feel special and important in some way. That takes a special person, and people that special should be important to each of us. There was never a talk show room that I entered, if he was there, that I didn't type in a narrative where I "roller-skated into him while holding a PB&J, knocking him into the corner". He'd always type back that he was "*sobbing". He's one of the few that didn't get annoyed by my redundancy, bless his soul.
He used to question me about what I did on my show, TOSS, because, he said in his mind, it was close to what he did as a psycho-therapist. He said it usually took a long time to discover things about people through therapy, and he was intrigued at what he called my 'leaps of intuition pinpointing what was happening with these folks'. He was also the first person, that I'm aware of, who died after having been involved with my show and what I do.
I didn't find out he'd died until more than a month after the fact. It shocked me and I took it harder than I would have expected. A couple days later though, I started looking around, I thought he might... you know... pop in to say, 'Hiya, LaSal', they way he used to in talkshoe rooms. If he did, I didn't see him.
A lot of people are going to miss him. God speed, Carl.
Peace, love and light,
LaSal
Monday, October 13, 2008
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