Webster's Year Without A Dictionary defines Matt Mason as:

1. Some vagrant guy who, whenever he finds himself with a tangible checking account, will quit his job(s) and go for a long drive.

2. This often unemployed schmuck with a Master's degree in poetry writing from the University of California at Davis. Also: former poetry editor for The Morpo Review, one of the internet's first electronic literary magazines.

3. Someone alarmingly fond of writing about cows.

4. A Type 1 diabetic fighting an addiction to substances such as donuts, apple fritters, and Little Debbie.

5. Someone who's taught college English in California, North Dakota, and Nebraska, yet still has trouble using lay/lie in sentences.

6. A Major in the Air Force who went on many exciting adventures in a series of comic books in the 1960's. Mothers of Matt Mason's born in the late 60's deny naming their son after the action figure.

7. Someone who did the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Des Moines, Iowa and cannot figure out what the word "Des Moines" means.

8. Someone who's never been to Delaware or Alaska and was once asked to leave Canada over an international donut crisis.


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Last update: May, 2003
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