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Mike Matson is a lifelong Kansan whose career has touched various aspects of communications: Deejay, radio news, TV news, press secretary to a governor, systems advocacy and newspaper columnist.

His professional success paralleled an addiction-related downward trajectory featuring all the drama one might expect. This dichotomy is the premise of Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction.

He wrote the book to help those still suffering - and their loved ones - connect the dots between destructive personality traits/behaviors and the potential for addiction.

Matson lives where he was born, in Manhattan, Kansas, with his wife and their two Australian Shepherds.

My Mainstream, Your Lunatic Fringe

I remember a journalistic colleague once asking Topeka gay-bashing Baptist minister Fred Phelps on camera how it felt to live, work and operate in the lunatic fringe.   This was in the early ‘90s, pre-Internet, before social media.   Phelps grew red in the face and thundered forth with pure venom. In his mind, he was right, the rest of us were wrong.   Lunatic fringe? How dare you?    In his unwav Read more of this blog post »
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“Turnabout is fair play. Even if the rules are unwritten. Maybe especially if they’re unwritten.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“...he tossed that response aside as he Kareem Abdul-Jabbarred an empty pony bottle hook shot crossing the Little are-KAN-zuhz.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“You can keep your rhinoceros piss Budweiser.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“You can keep your rhinoceros piss Budweiser.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“Helter Skelter, lady. You owe me two-fifty.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“He wondered what you had to do to be worthy of such things.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“All the ingredients for a life of integrity were there, at his disposal. All he had to do was live it.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

“The problem with mastering the Hustle was there was really no place to practice, except the place where mastery was demanded.”
Mike Matson, Courtesy Boy: A True Story of Addiction

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