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Matthew Sheahan
This New Yorker Hits the Road, Part III
Banditos, bratwurst, and brushing off the retarded in Wisconsin's capitol.
A San Francisco Christmas
After the third song, eXtreme Elvis burst from a large gift on a separate stage. He was wearing his usual white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit and a Santa hat. He orked his way around the bar singing various Elvis and holiday songs....Experts Agree: My Grandmother Is the Greatest
The name Mary Sheahan stands for selfless dedication to family....New York: Refuge from America's Celebrity Sickness
New York should be a refuge from America's sick obsession with celebrity....A New York Yankee in George Bush's America
It doesn't matter that tax dollars are going to politically connected contractors while military families starve and scrape; George W. Bush struts around in a flight suit and says he loves Jesus....Notes From a Polite New Yorker: A Funeral for ZAK
You would think that an East Village punk band with left-leaning politics would not be a welcome place for an 80-year-old devout Catholic, but you would be wrong....
Author info
Matthew Sheahan
Matthew Sheahan is a writer who lives in New York City. He has been writing Notes from a Polite New Yorker since 2001. His work has appeared in The Black Table, Knot Magazine, GetUnderground.com, Too Square and other publications. He works as a financial writer and also writes short stories and poems. He is trying to get as much writing done as possible before he has to retreat to an armed bunker somewhere in Idaho or Montana.