Matatouille - Thought, Opinion, Nonsense, Etc.

Or maybe it would be enough if I was one of those people who were fine with ditching their name. Unfortunately, I'm neither.

Matt Lipeles. sigh... Matt is fine. In fact, it's downright good. No complaints there. Which is darn lucky, considering my parents named my older brother Stewart, and gave me the middle name of Ira. Is an explanation even necessary to explain the problems of being a Stu or an Ira? Looks like I dodged a bullet on that one.

The problem is the last name. If you see it, you can't pronounce it, 85.2% of the time. (I've been keeping track as you can see.) Lip-less, Lipe-lees, I've heard it all.

And of course, if you hear it, you have no idea how to pronounce it. Oh well. It's not so bad.

But wouldn't it be great if I had one of those really cool sounding names? How about Roland Strong? Or Bo Duke? Or Jimmy Page? Man, I wish I had a cool sounding name. Oh well, I guess I'll survive. It hasn't killed me yet.

Matt Lipeles