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Sep 6, 2016

Because you never asked: why I left Facebook for 8 weeks

For days/months/weeks/years, whenever I checked Facebook first thing in the morning, I would always say to myself, “Why am I checking Facebook?? This is just going to waste 10 minutes, valuable time when I could be brushing my…

Carl in Reading is optional

Sep 4, 2016

I don’t care what people think of me, because of my self-realization that I was an asshole in fifth grade.

During a late night, non-sleeping time (you know, those times when you’re supposed to be sleeping, but you can’t, so you’re just lying there, staring…

Carl in Reading is optional

Dec 16, 2015

I made a Christmas List for Santa

When any adult writes a Christmas list for public view, you know that it’s going to be some think piece, that maybe helps us reflect on our consumerist society, or has some other “good for all mankind”-type of message. No one writes real Christmas lists. You know the…

Carl in Reading is optional

Aug 9, 2016

I don’t have a dog, but if I did, I think I would make its food.

I have two favorite dog foods. Not that I’ve eaten dog food. But if I was a dog, I would definitely eat these foods. The first one is Gaines-Burgers. They were these cellophane packets of some sort of meat-looking…

Carl in Reading is optional

Aug 8, 2016

My beliefs regarding Spider-Man

I like Spider-Man. I always have, ever since I knew he existed. Of course, I read every news tidbit that comes out of the interwebs regarding the latest Spider-Man movie in production, Spider-Man: Homecoming. I honestly still cannot fathom that in this day and age, we’ve…

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