Earl’s Changed

I changed the URL of this blog from http://mudmambas.wordpress.com to http://kurtisscaletta.wordpress.com You will be redirected for at least a year, but might as well update your subscriptions now. And a cautionary note to those of you with one or two books — choose your social networking platform addresses and usernames as if you will have [...]

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Your opinion matters, especially if I agree with it.

Sometimes I have twenty minutes to fritter way, and then find the fritter place is closed. Well, maybe I should blog about something, I think. But what? I feel like I do plenty about reading and writing, but could develop my eclectic repertoire better. What would you like to see?

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The Man With Two Blogs and a Guessing Game

I’m collecting all the Mamba Point release-related stuff over at my main author site, http://www.kurtisscaletta.com/latest-news. This my “everything else” blog, so I won’t be double posting news and reviews and so forth here. But there’s exciting stuff going on, so click on over. Meanwhile, to get back off topic, here’s a video I made today [...]

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Final paiku call, and a reminder of my alter web-ego

1. This is my final call for paikus. If you want a rare collectible (probably not that rare) pika beanie baby, just write a paiku. What’s a paiku? Follow the link. 2. I haven’t been double-posting things that I put as announcements over on the dot com site by also posting them here. If you [...]

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Links Restored

Most links out there in the blogosphere to entries on my old blog will now redirect to their proper pages here. It’s funny how a guy can waste hours trying to do something in htaccess, finally relying on a smarter guy for help, and then a guy does something trickier in .php and does it [...]

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Pardon the mess in the RSS

As I comb through old entries to fix broken internal links (mostly to images), they seem to appear as new/unread entries in the RSS feed. I don’t know how to prevent that, so I’m just going to bulldoze forth and do what I need to do. I look forward to sunnier days where I can [...]

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Oxford Commas

Steve Breeze popped into my last post and muttered something about the serial or “Oxford” comma which was, until shortly after I read that comment, missing from the blog title. It’s a bone of contention, this penultimate comma in a list of things. For example, is it “The grocer had carrots, rutabagas, and celery,” or [...]

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In which the author confesses a certain feeling of futility, but not without a shred of hope and gratitude

Welcome to Mud, Mambas and Mushrooms. This is where the bloggy part of my new fractured web presence will live, while the sort-of static pages are over at http://new.kurtisscaletta.com. I’ve given up on my web host, and moved this blog to wordpress dot com. While this means all of the content is here, it also [...]

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Re-categorizing

In order to serve my blog readers better, I’ve revised the categories; adding some which were sorely needed to direct people to the best content (like Bonus Stories and How to Draw Stuff), renaming some (Guys Read became the less proprietary Books and Boys) and folding some together. It’s hardly worth mentioning except that there [...]

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We're back in your aggregator!

If you’ve been reading this blog through your aggregator, you (might) see a flurry of posts from me today, after a 3-week seeming absence. It seems like my rebuilt (and hopefully more spam-free) blog was blocking Google Reader and other aggregators like Feedburner, probably due to overzealous security installs on my part. This has been [...]

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