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Matthew

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About Me

Writing is my passion. I also like gourmet food, books, and French wine. I'm a (former) coffee addict. I am an associate editor for two weekly newspapers in suburban Portland. check them out atwww.clackamas review.com www.oregoncitynewsonline.comI have a curse (blessing) so that anywhere I go with muzak playing, I hear a song by either Sting or the Police. I live at the foot of the largest metropolitan park in the country and it's lovely. I got used to the best Indian food in the country while living in Phoenix and now am deprived. I like tapas.But mostly I write. It makes me happy.

My Interests

Writing, drawing with charcoals, climbing trees, movies, art, reading, soccer, wine and cheese.

I'd like to meet:

Tom Waits and Buck 65. Ayn Rand and Steve Nash.

Music:

"Really boring modern music/ really boring modern girl/ Get me out of here I'm drowning/ I don't like this modern world/ Anti-intellect and marketing/ Pretty pretty who needs talent/ Crying eyes we're so outnumbered/ Fight for the right to remain silent"

Movies:

Long live the new flesh.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Weeds, the Office, Buffy, Firefly, Home Movies, America's Next Top Model

Books:

Neil Gaiman is fantastic. Hiroshima by John Hersey. Vonnegut, Especially Galapagos and Slapstick and Cats Cradle, but not in that order. the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Arturo Perez-Reverte's Club Dumas. the book of Marcel Duchamp's notes and personal writings. I Am Legend, Memnoch the Devil, The End of America: Letter of Warning to Young Patriot

My Blog

Self-destructible Sam: Nationalism and the immigration debate

There are stark and important differences between patriotism and nationalism.Patriotism is absolute. It is a decree of love for and pride in one's country, regardless of any immediate national policie...
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:53:00 PST

New blog

Hello friends. I've started a new blog on an external site. It's gonna be politics, but check it out if you like. www.voiceinthetorrent.blogspot.comAnd ahh. cheers.
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:35:00 PST

though I prefer the sound of quarters over thirds at times like these

It was all out there, I'd put it all out there, adorned with all the dazzling flashes and other spectacles, so as to prove. But it's hardly a time for such trivialities. They were dreams. When I threw...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:44:00 PST

on an attempt, 17 miles, Tipp City to nowhere

Tonight I am reconciling differences. Isn't it amazing that the things most abhored, the things one wishes to toss to the wayside are those to which one clings indefinitely and which resurface i...
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:34:00 PST

The latest (as related to your soon-to-be former constitutional rights)

http://www.digmo.com/news/story.php?ID=23985 cheers. enjoy. If the link dies let me know. I'll rescusitate it.
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:07:00 PST

Inadequacies in art/culture coverage

So I've taken issue with an article that appeared on the front page of the arts section of the New York Times today. It is about the rapper Young Jeezy, and it is full of contradictions and subtext&nb...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:49:00 PST

SNOW!

I thought I hated snow. I sat in my apaertment last night with the heat cranked so high I could wear shorts and a t-shirt and still be nearly uncomfortably warm. I cursed the sleet that pounded on my ...
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:31:00 PST

23 hours in mass transit

7:10am: knock knock. Alex is at my place. She apologizes to me for the shit room situation of the first half of the summer. 7:20am: I run up the street for coffee and a croissant. There are two croiss...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:26:00 PST

B-Bomb!

So yesterday I was up on Kensington High St. just shopping around. I went to H&M and got some t-shirts and whatnot and then I went to Virgin music to look for a couple of cd's and I noticed the po...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:24:00 PST

China organ harvesting

Here's the article I been working on. http://www.humanrightshouse.org/dllvis5.asp?id=4647 Cheers!
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:56:00 PST