Monday, March 2, 2009

Charles Calrson

For once, our university's newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, gets a real, honest-to-goodness scoop:

Student to drop from City Council race, lied about past (Minnesota Daily)

Yowza! This one guy that both my boyfriend A. and I know (and in A.'s case, has worked with!) has just been exposed for several major whoppers he's told over the course of the last year. Both of us are feeling a really weird mixture of emotions, because we both knew Charles was headed toward a bad end, but we were completely duped by his tall tales and had no suspicion that he might actually be living in another world altogether.
Mr. Norris in Minnesota

Earlier last year, A. read a volume of short fiction by Christopher Isherwood. And I really have to give him credit, from almost the day he cracked open the book, he was convinced that Charles was a real-life Minnesota version of Mr. Norris. How true that turned out to be!

I, for one, don't hold any of the deception against Charles. I'm even sort of grateful to him for the whole show. What an amazing accent he has!

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