Over on the blog for The Scribbler's Guide to the Land of Myth, I've launched a contest that will last through March 14.  In it, I am seeking suggestions for blog topics - and as a prize, I'll be giving away a signed copy of the book itself. The Grand Prize even gets a t-shirt with the Traveling Muse on it.

I'm hoping for some fun suggestions! I don ( Read more... )

I got into a discussion on Facebook (always a challenging proposition, that - "discussing on Facebook") about Harry Potter and priviledge and such attendant isues.  It had been prompted by his posting a link to a blog that contended the storytelling (or the characters, it's not entirely clear in the original blog) was morally bankrupt.  Apparently ( Read more... )

In San Diego during Comic Con last month, the shuttle buses serving the convention attendees (which circled the city between the convention center and various areas of hotels) were plastered with ads for the various series from the cable service Showtime.  Now, Showtime has long been known for delivering "edgy" shows, including (often by mandate ( Read more... )

I've mentioned in a couple of previous entries how I sometimes check the search strings that bring people to my website.  It's a rather interesting activity, that I don't do often enough.  I stopped checking my website stats frequently, because at present, once I get past what seems to be terrific numbers, I realize that the high number of hits are ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of months since I had last checked the visitor statistics on my website - mainly because the pointing of the principal URL is screwed up (trying to fix that right now).  Even so, one of the interesting things to check out is the "search threads" that bring people to my pages.  Not that I get gobs and gobs of traffic at present, ( Read more... )

So, there I was, reviewing the visitor stats for my website ( www.scribblerworks.us/_index.htm ), and I checked out the search strings that brought some people to the site.  It's kind of interesting to see how people get there (well, once you get past realizing that the high number of hits are spambots prowling about, alas).

Anyway, one thing that ( Read more... )