Christopher Cihlar was born in North
Hampton, Massachusetts and currently
lives in Kensington, Maryland with his wife Kalinka and their infant son Shay. The Grilled Cheese Madonna came about as a direct result of a messy divorce (not his), a dead dog and a failed auction. He holds Ph.D. and Master degrees from Cornell University's Department of Policy Analysis and Management and a B.A. from Georgetown University. He has studied at Cambridge University, bartended in Ireland and has embarked upon a career of documenting the often times absurd results caused by pop-culture phenomenons.