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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.

Pork Choppers

It was 1992. He had already run for vice-president once, president twice, and was laying the groundwork for the ’96 White House run in which he’d actually win his party’s nomination. His re-election that year to the U.S. Senate from Kansas was a mere formality. Formality or not, Bob Dole always took care of Kansas. As the political reporter for WIBW-TV in Topeka, I’d be fed a news release or two a 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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