Author: Shawn Carlow

Shawn Carlow is a man. But more than a man, he is also a confounding mix of chemicals and brainwave activity. He has done standup around LA, written and directed award-winning shorts and produced and written for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Wil Wheaton, and Deon Cole. Hooray.

Hi, I’m one of those Northerners you hear about all the time who refuses to get over the Civil War. I ride around with my Fort Sumter replica flag on the roof of my car playing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” at top volume out the windows, and I constantly lament the fact that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson went so soft on the South when it came to that whole Reconstruction thing. Now, I’ve been to a bunch of Civil War reenactments with my Northern buddies, and we usually drink to excess that first night around the campfire…

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