Fun Writing

NOTE: most of these stories initially appeared as "blogs" on Matt Burns' Myspace website or on his Natty Ice Diaries Blog. Also keep in mind that these stories may contain some strong language/imagery (i.e. some swearing and sexual stuff). But nothing is gratuitous, meaning the language is used with the purpose of expressing truth. Read at your own discretion, especially if you are my grandmother.

Ten things to keep in mind when you're at the check-out of your local supermarket:

Matt Burns' embittered alter ego "Bruno Burns" does his top-ten list of things that piss him off in the classroom...at Church...and at the movies:

A few lessons learned after rocking in the year 2006 at a club in Boston:

Barging in on a grown man in a public Starbucks bathroom.

Catching a couple having sex in a public park.

A love letter to a random girl I had 'a moment' with at a bar on Fat Tuesday 2006:

Two diary entries documenting my attempt at street performing in the Boston Common:

An innocent night out at a bar turns into a something much more dirty.

A night I will never forget!

A memoir of my meeting with an Oscar-winning producer at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan:

One of the strangest, funniest nights ever to come out of my drunken antics:

The amazing story of my visit with renown medium/psychic Liam Galvin. Not only did I end up talking to my dead grandfathers, but I also discovered that two of my "spirit guides" are John Cassavetes and Alfred Hitchcock:

Discovering that two icons of the silent movie era are "with me" as spirit guides:

Discovering that the spirits of two ex-writers, Hunter S. Thompson and Nathanael West, are "with me" as spirit guides:

The incredible story of how I discovered great American novelist Henry James was "with me" as a spirit guide:

A mind-blowing blog about being regressed to my most recent past life by regression therapist Donna Ciaciarella. This is a tragic story of a traumatic role I played during the Holocaust, but it's also an uplifting story about our need to conquer FEAR. Read the story, listen to the audio tapes and think about what YOU would do in my situation:

Discovering my indirect involvement with the massacring of approximately 1,000 Polish intellectuals by Nazi Germany during WWII. An update to my past-life regression blog (see above):

The mind-blowing story of how I discovered I was Hollywood Icon Carole Lombard in one of my most recent past lives:

Two updates to the story of how I discovered - through regression therapy - that I had a past life as an actress in Hollywood:

Cleansing my aura of thirty-two-lives-worth of trauma:

A short story about my first physically intimate experience with a woman of the African race:

A philosophical blog about how it's our obligation to both God and the universe to be happy in our lives:

Read about how I witnessed a group of mediums cross the spirit of a recently-deceased grandmother over to "the other side':