About

Unabashed is the personal blog of Matt Mitchell, a writer, Southerner, technophile, conservative liberal (I adhere to no political party, just as I adhere to no organized religion), naturalist. It is updated more than rarely but less than frequently. Potential topics include writing and the publishing business in general, blogging, technology, environmentalism and nature, politics, and whatever else I come up with.

I am a sports fan, but most of my sports commentary is on my other website: Real Men Wear Houndstooth.

Unabashed is not a profit-based website. You won’t find any advertisements here, although I will, from time to time, make mention of assorted detritus I might be launching into the entertainment stream.

If you want to know more about me, visit the bio page.

For comment policy and site disclaimer, go here.

My digital shadow:

  • [Re]Evolver
  • Twitter
  • fb
  • flickr
  • psuburbia
  • Real Men Wear Houndstooth–Sports commentary
  • Myspace
  • Livejournal
  • Ning–My social networking site; still don’t know what to do with it, but feel free to join. In fact, I encourage you to join. If it actually had some users it might motivate me to do something with it.
  • Wetpaint–This is my Mythica wiki.
  • blogspot–I have an account, but no blog with blogspot.
  • I am a member of many, many other social networking and various internet sites. On most of them my user name is mattmitchell8, such as Digg, del.icio.us, and Stumbleupon.

I can be reached at mattmitchell8 at gmail.com

Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell has been a rock climber, a parachutist, a lifeguard and a sailor, having sailed throughout the Caribbean, Arabian, Red and Mediterranean Seas. He’s crossed the Arctic Circle, visited the Valley of the Kings, and sailed through Gibraltar and the Suez Canal. He’s swum with sharks and wrestled an alligator and spent several years changing light bulbs on radio and television towers for a living at heights of up to two thousand feet. He is an avid reader, a southerner, technophile, naturalist and part-time adventurer, working and writing in Montevallo, Alabama. He’s a husband and father of two boys. Full bio.

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In the event that information presented in this blog (also referred to as “Unabashed,” also referred to as “MattMitchellFiction.com”) is found to be in direct conflict with any ‘presumed’ reality, it is the official stance of this blog that the ‘presumed’ reality is incorrect and that this blog and all information presented therein is thereby factual and complete in dynamic. Therefore, Unabashed is a more accurate representation of ‘factual’ reality than any specified or unspecified ‘presumed’ reality. Even if I’m totally wrong.

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