Long time readers of this site (aka: Seth), will remember that when we first moved from Ypsi to LA, there were four of us. The first one to go, rather abruptly, was Chuck. Chuck announced to the three of us, through a post on this site, that he was leaving California and going back to Michigan.

What he didn't mention was he planned to take Caliblog with him, even though we were the ones paying for it. Long story short, the shit hit the fan when Chuck left, things got ugly both on and behind Caliblog, and we lost a good number of readers because of it.

Well... none of us have heard a single word from Chuck since he left - he disappeared for a while, then resurfaced with his own blog, which he soon quit and deleted. Then about three years went by, and I couldn't find anyone who knew anything about what happened to him. Not even his hero: Mark Maynard.

So the other day, with the help of a person who might not want to be named, I found Chuck, or "Charles" on MySpace.


His profile was set to private, and he hadn't logged in since August, I tried to add him as a contact, it asked me to enter his last name for security reasons and "Manley" didn't work, neither did a few dozen other names I could see Chuck using. So, instead I sent a message that read:

Well, well... look who I found on myspace... I see apparently your last name isn't "Manley" anymore, at least according to myspace... you've really went into hiding.

Why is it you want to be so hard to find? What don't you want people to see?

And the next day... he had erased his entire account. Just like that... what a strange, strange individual.