About The Tattered Coat
About Matt
“I am a fragment, and this is a fragment of me.” — R. W. Emerson
To contact me, please send a message to 
About the Community
For some time, this was a group blog; my friends Rod and Martin contributed many wonderful posts (click on their names to see them).
Rod is now writing for Swoon, a music blog; Martin now contributes a column called The Squib Report to Emdashes (he seems to have abandoned Between the Squibs, his earlier blog about the Complete New Yorker DVDs).
Comments on the blog have proven repeatedly that this site’s readers are among the greatest readers of any website, at any time, in the history of the interwebs. That’s just how they roll.
About the Name of the Site
“The Tattered Coat” comes from W.B. Yeats’ poem Sailing to Byzantium:
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
We are all tatters, unless we sing for ourselves and for each other.
About the Photo
I took the photo in the header of the blog while on a recent trip to Ireland. The setting is O’Connell Street in Dublin, in May.
For more of my photos, please visit my flickr stream.
What People Are Saying About Matt and His Tattered Coat
His basic premise is sound, and gets to the crux of a larger problem.
Ace Philly blogger.
Challenging posts.
Tackles politics/events with humor & style.
While I am not particularly attracted by blog entries on Hip Hop, I am always willing to be educated. His politics section is certainly well worth it.
I don’t think I’d ever want to be in the batters box if Matt was the guy serving up the fastballs. Brutal, precise, dastardly, but oh-so-polite. Damn.
. . . one of the most thorough debunkings of Republican spin on the whole Rove outing a CIA agent thing I’ve ever read. . . an excellent, excellent job of getting the facts straight and making it crystal clear. . . Beautifully done.
Philadelphia hodgepodge.
Go read anything. It’s all good.
An amiable graduate student and blog evangelist.”
