Matthew Lippart is an international educator, raconteur, one-move-dancer, and connoisseur of reasonably priced local beers. He has spent the last twelve years of life on this rather strange planet teaching Math, Literature, and Generalized Mischievousness in various sweaty places. His thirst for adventure has taken him and his patient wife and slightly less patient toddlers to many random places, with Congo, Myanmar, and Egypt being some of the most interesting. He currently resides in Canada where he spends most of his time cleaning the carpet and paring for a nap. He holds the dubious honor of being the only person in the world to have released a death metal song as a cylindrical phonograph (at www.vulcanrecords.com) and brings it up at every opportunity.