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Meathead is a pseudonym for an internet humor columnist who primarily contributes to The NIN Hotline, a fan site dedicated to the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.

Meathead was born David Craig, in honour of Michaelangelo's sculpture of the same name, on August 14th, 1979 in Groval Run, Arizona , to a single mother who had recently immigrated to the United States from Ukraine ). He is currently studying epistemology and ontological empiricism at the University of Pittsburgh ).

His column, The Meathead Perspective, was started on August 4, 1999, satirizes Nine Inch Nails and its founder Trent Reznor, regularly poking fun at the band's members while expressing enthusiasm and fondness for the group's music. His column provides absurdist commentary on Reznor's latest activities and band-related events, and often includes comedy Flash animations and reviews of the band's latest releases. The column has been one of many links on the band's official website on various occasions since its inception, and is currently listed as a "creative" resource. Over the years, Meathead has gained notable popularity throughout the Nine Inch Nails fanbase (receiving close to as many "hits" to his website as The NIN Hotline itself ) and he has established a loyal cult following for his material. In 2004, during a dry-spell of Perspective-worthy activity, Meathead found an outlet for his writing in a short-lived column on crapville.com entitled The Village Idiot. Unlike the Perspective, the Idiot had no specified topic.

Meathead's popularity within Nine Inch Nails fan circles has lead to him receiving a surprise birthday party thrown by NIN's roadies, complete with an obese stripper, in Pittsburgh on June 30, 2006. The party was recorded and webcast by the official NIN fanclub later that week.

Meathead is also an avid artist whose surrealist paintings primarily consist of cow-like creatures in extraordinary predicaments. These images are archived at Meathead's personal page, the Web Hole, and have been made available for sale as limited-edition prints. In addition to visual arts, Meathead has been known to delve into musical arts, notably having remixed the hit Nine Inch Nails song "Closer" under the pseudonym "Nine Inch Goombas". The remix featured various sound effects from games in the Super Mario Bros. series. Meathead has also remixed other Nine Inch Nails songs including The Hand That Feeds and Head Like A Hole. As a result of Meathead's music composition and remixing abilities, Meathead was invited to join Kamikaze Records (later Kamikaze Media). Coincidentally, Meathead shares a name with the Italian band Meathead, who released two industrial-funk genre records in the mid to late 1990s. This band has nothing to do with the Internet personality, however.