"Number one authority on nothing"
Matthew Nash
Contact Matt at mnash@sequimgazette.com
Matthew Nash hails from Portland, Ore., and stumbled into writing for newspapers when his high school allowed him to write movie reviews. Nash is married to a kindergarten teacher. They have one child together who is named after two superheroes.

 

• As a perennially pale person, I’ve written two stories on tanning salons.

• I read more about sports than I watch or play them.

• The only award I’ve received for writing was about reading.

• Deadlines make me feel alive.

• The word “very” is discouraged, yet I felt very obliged to tell you not to use it.

• I’m relatively new to blogs and many of my columns are about babies.

• I’ll go into a burning building for my boss, but I won’t get him coffee. (aka Mike Dashiell)

• To, too and two are all different but when anyone corrects a person on this I only imagine inventing a tutu that goes to the third dimension.

• I like wearing shorts with black socks to work but often find myself writing long stories that have nothing to do with fashion.

• I’ve never been fired from a job, but most of my early career was away from stoves.

• I once used a magician as a source, but I felt he kept pulling things out of nowhere.

• I use a hypoallergenic writing pad when I write stories about animals.

• Existentialism is often a journalist’s college minor.

• I wear glasses but often don’t need them to see a story idea.

• I strive for originality but most of the things I write about already happened.