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Matt is a crazy, crazy man. He’s one of the original unit-mates (w/Nick, Dan, Chris, and Whitney) and a member of the Autumnal Birthdays Coalition and a TWDCR. He was Chris’s freshman roommate, which is kind of funny to think about, and the two of them masterminded the Oranje Juice Installation Art Stealth Project, of which the bemused and amused victims were Nick and Dan.
He is a cultivator of “elegant vices” like pipe-smoking and ridiculously expensive scotch. He would be even happier as a Victorian-era gentelman than Nick or Andrew would as an eccentric Oxford don of the same period. He is also qualified to operate both firearms and defibrillators.
Other entanglements:

• Hanger Wars with Nick involving the concealment of coathangers with threatening labels ensconced in luggage.
• A very, very odd summer spent at Nick’s house, in which Matt
  • Sat around in his shorts and played Diablo more than should have been physicall possible
  • Purchased a porkpie hat (is that right? I confuse them) of which he was quite proud
  • Worked for a leftist environmentalist group (yeah, none of us quite understand that)
  • Was identified as a “righteous cracker” by a heroin dealer in West Oakland in what utterly failed to become the beginning of an epic quest.
• Introduced Nick to
  *A Clockwork Orange (Which is okay, but no JG Ballard)
• Umberto Eco (Who’s okay, but no Jorge Luis Borges
• and Good ole HP Lovecraft, who defies all comparison, for good or ill.
  

  Quotes
  

• “Think of polytetraflourethylene, only all over your pants.”
• See also: The Whiteboard
• RhubarbXIV (3:37:55 PM): well, that’s the thing
  
• RhubarbXIV (3:38:05 PM): among the poor, it really only is the ugly who need more education
  h2. Bibliography:
  
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Foucault’s Pendulum
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
  h2. See also
  
• Autumnal Birthdays Coalition