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Matthew Callan - Fake MVP Votes Winner!

Scratchbomb.com is the sole responsibility of Matthew Callan. Matthew Callan grew up in a place with lots of cops and now resides in Queens. One of his great-grandfathers worked on the Williamsburg Bridge, but he has yet to hear one word of thanks from any of those douchebag hipsters down there.

Also, he is a writer. On the non-fiction tip, he used to write in fake voices for MSN Sports Filter, your one stop shop for football picks by Wesley Willis. He was a contributing writer for the NY Press (name in the masthead and everything). In the past, he has penned snotty commentaries for NPR and written a lot of stuff for Freezerbox.com. One of these pieces, "The Lemon Pledge," was picked by Dave Eggers for the 2003 edition of the Best American Nonrequired Reading, so you know it's good. Oh, and he contributed to Excelsior You Fathead, a biography of radio humorist Jean Shepherd. So there's that.

Regarding fiction, he got an MFA from Brooklyn College [I mean, earned, not went to campus and stole a diploma]. Stuff he made up has appeared in Beekiller, the Mississippi Review, and Nimrod International Literary Journal, where his completely coincidentally named story "Nimrod" was a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize. He was also a bridesmaid for fiction contests in Zoetrope: All-Story and Bomb Magazine. He's completed several novels that nobody wants you to read, apparently.

Also, he used to be in a band and one of their songs was sampled by Le Tigre. So you might have heard them third hand. Maybe.

He also has a wife and baby who seem to find him tolerable.