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Carl Monday has been CLEVELAND'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER for decades, but only recently has he earned himself officially Interwebs Superstar status. (Which is probably why he was beaten on the Eddie Griffin story.) It seems that Monday is less than comfortable with his new notoriety.
This thing has really, like I said, taken on a life of its own. I mean, they're selling t-shirts on the Internet, "Carl Monday Caught Me Masturbating," and cartoon strips, and it's been on every blog and Web site ... We certainly like our stories to be seen and heard, but we never thought it would get that kind of exposure. It's been on MSNBC, it's been everywhere.
Monday, who appears to have done some actual good work in his investigative reporting assignments not involved haranging masturbating dorks, defended his work but admitted perhaps some aspects of the segment could have been more clear. And, so you know: His real name is not Carl Monday. As if any of you thought otherwise.
Carl Monday On Relentless Reporting [CJR Daily]
The Most Brilliant Thing You'll See All Day [Deadspin]
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You reap what you sow, Monday.
Damn you, Carl Monday! He didn't reveal his actual 'ethnic name' in the article. We need a good investigative reporter like Carl Monday to discover Carl Monday's real name!
I only hope I can have that glorious of a 'stache for this year's Moustache Classic camping trip.
This line is pretty funny if taken out of context: And then when we got the video, we spent actually, I bet you it was two weeks before we arrived at a decision on what to do with the video
his real name is Carlito Carlson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Carlson
The thought had never even crossed my mind that the bastion of truth and justice that is Carl Monday might actually lie to me about his name. Now I no longer know what to believe.
I was wondering how come no one was commenting on the gloriousness of Monday's own Buckstache. Way to sweep the leg, Zabka.
I suspect the name on his birth certy is Carlos Lunes.
Carl Monday not revealing his Christian name makes Carl Monday a lot less trustworthy.
bmill525, that thing just scream awesome. I am starting to grow mine today. I was going to do an Ed Wood 'stache, but fuck that shit. I am going for CM's stache all the way.
Carl Monday = Excellent Womb Broom
The story mentions he was once thrown down a flight of stairs by a Cleveland city councilman...and it's on video. I propose a free post for the first person who can come up with that video.
Doesn't Carl Monday realize that the only way slow down the carl Monday internet train (cuz there's no stopping it at this point, one can only hope to slow it down) is to ignore it? The more Carl Monday comments on it, fueling the fire and giving places like Deadspin and other blogs more reasons to keep posting about Carl Monday, the more likely the legend of Carl Monday will never die. oh...and...Carl Monday
why does an investigative reporter for the greater cleveland area need a fake name?
Before I found Deadspin, I'd be trudging along the internet on a dead day like today, futiley searching for a story that would help me through. And then I found Deadspin, and with it, Carl Monday. Though a day late... God Bless America.
I'm calling dibs on the Pay-Per-View event featuring Carl Monday v. Adam Morrison v. Burt Reynolds v. Rollie Fingers in a no-holds-barred MEGA FUCKING MUSTACHE BATTLE ROYALE OF THE CENTURY!!!!!
oh, it is his legal name. fuckin cool.
I wish to be the first to call for Mr. Monday to appear at a press conference wearing a Carl Monday is Watching You Masturbate t-shirt. He needs to embrace this the way Matt Millen never did.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up, people. (Beep. Beep. Beep.) Where can I get one of these "T-Shirts"?
I feel like a total wanker. *I* didn't have any reason to think his name was anythign other than Carl Monday. And now, even Will is making fun of my naivete. But seriously, as Lopey pointed out, can I really be blamed? How ought I to have know that a reporter for Cle-freakin'-veland would need a pseudonym. And if he needed a psuedonym, could he not have picked one a little more spicy than Carl Monday? I mean, my lord - it's oen of those names that sound too fake to not be real. Like, Seymour Butz or Hugh Jass, for example.
http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=24199&bw= although not being thrown down any stairs...he is being bitch slapped by an apparent homeless man...and then carl monday hides behind a tree.
His pagan name is Watchful Owl.
Okay, UM wins the daily award for link that most made me giggle like a schoolgirl.
Not only that...he was a pioneer at Kent State. http://www.jmc.kent.edu/home/feature/2005/March/histories/... "In 1971, the first student advisory board consisted of Dave DiManna, Bill McCoy, John Doutt, Greg Beneditti, John Roche, Dave Darmour and Carl Monday, who had this to say about his experience: "Those were fun days... but also a true learning experience... especially in the days of the Kent State shootings... and what followed." Jeez Carl, even back then you were deriving pleasure from tragic incidents. You truly are an inhumane sadist.
When he was on the radio in the early 70s I can so see him rocking out to some Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day.
Yes lopey...good clip...and the source of the "Get Away from Me, Carl Monday" craze.
This one again made my day. Thanks Will. All i know is at the start of the interview he says "I don't think our intention when we decide to take on a story is necessarily to...make life miserable for anybody" then later they ask "why are people in the Cleveland and Akron area so willing to talk to you on camera?" and Carl Monday says "Well, I'm not sure everybody is, because a lot of times you're...generally making life miserable for people " haha I love it. The comments on his blog are just as good. http://www.wkyc.com/weblog/carlmonday/2006/05/real-story-b... 
My fav Monday blog comment "You are like a beautiful angel with a flamethrower come down from heaven to hand library perverts the divine judgment they deserve. If only we could clone you and create an army of heroes in your image, the blinding light of righteousness would incinerate porn-viewers for miles around."
"Get away from me, Carl Monday"...Bawhahahhahahahhahahahah
His birth name is Carl Leather. He changed it because he didn't want to be associated with those t-shirts. So naturally you can see why he is pissed off about Carl Monday t-shirts.
Shanknuts, as I was flipping through the dregs of Americana being broadcast last night, I noticed Tom Selleck is once again sporting the 'stache - and with a vengeance! Mr. BMill and I noted it was the same size as his awesomely large bow tie. http://www.upi.com/Newspictures/photo.php?PhotoID=WAX20060...
Damn, why did Mr and Mrs Cooper come out of the house. Seeing their 23 yr old, porn 'stache wearing, unemployed, living in the basement son talking to Carl Monday on the lawn shouldn't have been reason for concern.
Darcy, the shootings took place right outside and down the hill from the j-school building. There's a metal sculpture outside the building with bullet holes still intact. The memorial is right there and where the kids died is now a parking lot. They have lighted pylons as a memorial in the parking lot. Taking up parking spaces. Seriously. That's what I get for having classes there for three straight years.
Carl Monday is not a real Monday. So I guess that means he isn't releated to former All-Star centerfielder Rick Monday. That would be the Rick Monday that in 1976 saved the American flag from being burned by two protesters. Carl "Ethnic Surname to be Named Later" is just riding the coattails of the good Monday name. It's quite shameful really.
I can't believe I was on the KSU campus 2 weeks ago and forgot to go check out the memorial. All I had time to see was the union and the exciting world of the volleyball offices. Hey...wait...shouldn't someone do a little investigative reporting of their own on this Carl "Monday" fellow? The go-getters of Deadspin should be able to unearth his real name.
Carl Monday's story of how he got his name needs some investigation of its own. He claims that he took the name from Robert Wagner's character on the 60s TV show, It Takes A Thief. In fact, Wagner's character was named Alexander Mundy, not Monday. Talk about a gotcha! Who's going to get the bottom of this???? A Deaspin reader with a video camera I hope.
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