Matt Stroud, Neighbor

In previous lives, I bicycled across the United States, was locked alone overnight (on purpose) in the bowels of Philadelphia's subway system, threw a complete game no-hitter in an actual competitive baseball game, crawled around underneath Paris and Bangkok, and, among other things, watched the sad implosions of several major low-income housing units in the Pittsburgh area (which were then transformed miraculously into big box department stores). As a freelance writer, I contribute regularly to Philadelphia City Paper and Pittsburgh City Paper in addition to Amanda Gillooly's steller Patch site and other fine publications and websites. Reach me via matt [dot] stroud [at] yahoo [dot] com or via Facebook here: facebook.com/matt.stroud1