life?
 
 
My take
Saturday, June 28, 2008
I arrived in Baghdad in March 2008, but I knew I was coming since March 2006. In that time, I've been asked by many friends to let them know what I really think of the situation in Iraq. I want to
 
Making peace with rockets
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
When the alarms go off, you throw yourself on the floor of your hooch, squirm into your body armor and helmet and under your bed, and there are moments, true life-changing moments, where you are
 
Enough with the stupid rockets already...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Howdy cowboys and cowgirls!
It’s been 4 weeks since last you heard from this old cowpoke, and what a 4 weeks! There is nothing like several hundred rounds of high explosive mortars and rockets
 
مرحبة بغداد
Friday, March 14, 2008
Howdy Cowgirls and Cowboys,
As you can guess, I have made it to Embassy Baghdad. The trip out either wasn't that bad, or I'm just getting jaded to the various inconveniences of traveling halfway
 
The new mattlesnake.com        
Friday, October 26, 2007
The website hadn’t been updated in about 5 years, the navigation was stale, the content dated, and my beer sign was all shot up by the BuckNaked Brigades. Perhaps this will motivate me to post more
 
This endeavor was weekly before blogging was as common as Starbucks in downtown Seattle. Now that people’s fish are blogging, this is something else, I just don’t know what yet...