ABOUT MATT BLITZ

What did the cat say when it ran into the door? Me-owwww!

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Hello friend. I'm a history, science, and travel writer who is always searching for the mysterious, the hidden, and the wondrous. 

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My work has appeared in both print and digital for a variety of national and local publications like Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Washingtonian, Atlas Obscura, DCist, Food & Wine, and Arlington Magazine. 

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I also worked in the television business in Los Angeles writing, producing, and assisting several shows you've heard of (like How I Met Your Mother), but many more you haven't (like The Two Coreys). Once, I played myself and lent my name to a famed holiday episode of How I Met Your Mother ("Blitzgiving," look it up) 

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I'm from Reston, Virginia (suburb of D.C.) and attended Syracuse University, where I graduated from the Newhouse School.

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When I'm not putting words to the page, I'm usually exploring, eating, searching for extraterrestrial life, reading, making cat jokes, trying to figure out time travel, or playing softball. 

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I also have an encyclopedic knowledge of film scores and I'm really into cemeteries because you can't get any closer to history than six feet below you.

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Once, I tried to break into Area 51 and currently planning an expedition to find buried treasure in the Rocky Mountains.