Another other and hopefully forever home

I rebuilt kurtisscaletta.com, using — let me brag about this, okay? — using a wordpress theme I built myself, from scratch, all by myself, with nothing but a few chunks of core functionality from a ’87 Buick Skylark and the body of an LG LTM9000. That will be my mostly static carefully groomed “author presence” [...]

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In Which the Author Comes Clean

There have been a couple of horrifying news stories lately about bullying, and author Carrie Jones created a Facebook page for authors against bullying, encouraging us to write our own true stories about the topic… here’s mine. I was the new kid seven times between first and twelfth grade. In every year but one, I [...]

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In Which the Author Fulfills a Childhood Aspiration

Jim left a comment on my last post referring to the classic picture book William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow, about a boy who wants a doll. The ending to that book suggests that maybe he’s not a sissy (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but merely aspires to be a father. Which is funny [...]

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Ask me anything…

I still have a Q&A going on over here, which is kinda fun. Ask me a question or just see what’s already come up. I’ve already addressed such issues as the AFC Championship Game (the winner of which I predicted accurately), the most beautiful place in the world, childhood memories, chocolate before bedtime, ghosts, favorite [...]

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My Favorite Joke

Somebody stumbled across this website while searching for “my favorite joke.” I’ve shared it before, but here it is again. What’s yours? Please remember that this is a kid-friendly website. OK…. go!

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Ask me anything

I’m answering anonymous questions at http://www.formspring.me/skutir. I’ll post some of the more interesting questions and their answers back here. Of course by “ask me anything,” I mean, “I’ll answer if it’s a real question or even a silly question, but I’ll delete anything that’s overly personal or inappropriate.”

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QNABS: Favorite Holiday Movie

Questions nobody asks but should: What’s your favorite holiday movie? Of course the answer to this is usually going to be a Christmas movie. How many other holidays have movies? Especially ones that aren’t of the mad slasher genre? The answer is, practically none. For me the answer is not exactly a movie, but a [...]

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QNABS: Who's your favorite Viking?

Question nobody asks but should: Who’s your favorite Viking? Let me start by saying that I never hated Brett Favre as a Packer. I recognized his superb quarterbacking skills then, and relished in his occasional meltdown. Now it’s the opposite, but I’m not one of those crazy Vikings fans (cough-my brother Ken-cough) who wished upon [...]

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Qnabs: Actor Slash Singer

Questions nobody asks but should: Who’s your favorite actor slash singer? That’s a tough question, because there’s a lot of people who are quite good at both, from Frank Sinatra to the unspellable Zooey Deschanel. But today I’ll say Will Oldham. Will Oldham, aka “Bonnie Prince Billy,” is a terrific rootsy folk singer and songwriter [...]

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A Birthday Cake for a Fun Guy

As author/editor/dancer/lay-zoologist Michael Northrop remembered in comments to a different post, another year came and went for the author of Mudville, Mamba Point, and (now) Wake, ME. Since there was no round number, I decided not to make as big a deal out of this one as I did the last one. But I did [...]

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