Geoff Micks
@faceintheblue.bsky.social
Torontonian, husband, dog-owner, reader, writer, podcaster... Struggling list-maker?
I try to say at least something every day, usually slice of life, usually positive vibes.
https://linktr.ee/taperecordertrilogy
I try to say at least something every day, usually slice of life, usually positive vibes.
https://linktr.ee/taperecordertrilogy
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I write historical fiction, and I'm pretty good at it. My novels include:
Inca - amzn.to/2zGBa3a
Zulu - amzn.to/2LrC45m
Beginning - amzn.to/2JyCs08
Middle - amzn.to/2NmicB6
End - amzn.to/2PS0Wtc pic.x.com/12qnl3tv4p
Inca - amzn.to/2zGBa3a
Zulu - amzn.to/2LrC45m
Beginning - amzn.to/2JyCs08
Middle - amzn.to/2NmicB6
End - amzn.to/2PS0Wtc pic.x.com/12qnl3tv4p
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!
Weeks ago I heard someone on a podcast say at one point in his life he was living out of his car; he'd sleep parked by police stations because if a cop knocked on his window he'd say his friend was inside giving a statement, and they'd leave him alone.
Someday I will write that into a great story.
Someday I will write that into a great story.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Weeks ago I heard someone on a podcast say at one point in his life he was living out of his car; he'd sleep parked by police stations because if a cop knocked on his window he'd say his friend was inside giving a statement, and they'd leave him alone.
Someday I will write that into a great story.
Someday I will write that into a great story.
I'm Xmas shopping for my wife. She texts me, asking where I am. I'm at Canadian Tire. I ask if she needs sparkplugs for Christmas. She plays along, saying she is dangerously low, before admitting she doesn't know what a sparkplug is.
That's when I discovered I know way too much about sparkplugs..?
That's when I discovered I know way too much about sparkplugs..?
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm Xmas shopping for my wife. She texts me, asking where I am. I'm at Canadian Tire. I ask if she needs sparkplugs for Christmas. She plays along, saying she is dangerously low, before admitting she doesn't know what a sparkplug is.
That's when I discovered I know way too much about sparkplugs..?
That's when I discovered I know way too much about sparkplugs..?
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
A decade ago I switched to black coffee, and ever since whenever I see someone fussing with their milk or cream and sugar I think, "What am I doing with all the extra seconds I save daily now that I don't have to do that?" Then I remember I use the time to think that thought...
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A decade ago I switched to black coffee, and ever since whenever I see someone fussing with their milk or cream and sugar I think, "What am I doing with all the extra seconds I save daily now that I don't have to do that?" Then I remember I use the time to think that thought...
For today's episode of The Tape Recorder Trilogy #Podcast —a free weekly audio drama I am creating based on 3 of my novels— we have the second-half of a two-parter looking at the untold history behind the origins The Iliad and The Odyssey.
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#historicalfiction #audiodrama
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#historicalfiction #audiodrama
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
For today's episode of The Tape Recorder Trilogy #Podcast —a free weekly audio drama I am creating based on 3 of my novels— we have the second-half of a two-parter looking at the untold history behind the origins The Iliad and The Odyssey.
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#historicalfiction #audiodrama
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#historicalfiction #audiodrama
Today's Bluesky confession?
I keep forgetting director Chris Columbus is still alive. I think I have him and John Hughes stuck together in the same file in my mental filing cabinet. Every time I hear about a new Chris Columbus project I think, "No. That's impossible. He's been dead for years..."
I keep forgetting director Chris Columbus is still alive. I think I have him and John Hughes stuck together in the same file in my mental filing cabinet. Every time I hear about a new Chris Columbus project I think, "No. That's impossible. He's been dead for years..."
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today's Bluesky confession?
I keep forgetting director Chris Columbus is still alive. I think I have him and John Hughes stuck together in the same file in my mental filing cabinet. Every time I hear about a new Chris Columbus project I think, "No. That's impossible. He's been dead for years..."
I keep forgetting director Chris Columbus is still alive. I think I have him and John Hughes stuck together in the same file in my mental filing cabinet. Every time I hear about a new Chris Columbus project I think, "No. That's impossible. He's been dead for years..."
I'm part of a monthly writers group. We start every meeting with a 10-minute exercise where we have to incorporate a sentence chosen at random from a nearby book into what we come up with, just to dust off the cobwebs.
This notepad looks like a cleaned up version of my chicken scratch handwriting.
This notepad looks like a cleaned up version of my chicken scratch handwriting.
I will somehow be able to decipher this in the morning in order to transcribe it into the #wip, but I can't tell you exactly how 😆
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm part of a monthly writers group. We start every meeting with a 10-minute exercise where we have to incorporate a sentence chosen at random from a nearby book into what we come up with, just to dust off the cobwebs.
This notepad looks like a cleaned up version of my chicken scratch handwriting.
This notepad looks like a cleaned up version of my chicken scratch handwriting.
"The new series will continue the franchise with the same universe, canon, and tone that made Stargate a global hit."
As a science fiction fan who watched Star Trek move from Utopian to Dystopian, I am really relieved to hear they're not starting Stargate over again as some gritty, angry thing.
As a science fiction fan who watched Star Trek move from Utopian to Dystopian, I am really relieved to hear they're not starting Stargate over again as some gritty, angry thing.
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series » GateWorld
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm.
www.gateworld.net
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"The new series will continue the franchise with the same universe, canon, and tone that made Stargate a global hit."
As a science fiction fan who watched Star Trek move from Utopian to Dystopian, I am really relieved to hear they're not starting Stargate over again as some gritty, angry thing.
As a science fiction fan who watched Star Trek move from Utopian to Dystopian, I am really relieved to hear they're not starting Stargate over again as some gritty, angry thing.
My Dad was self-employed in the back half of his career. He worked out of a building he owned on a main street of his hometown, with renters living upstairs. He sold the building when he retired. It's gone back up on the market. It's so strange reconciling the pictures with my memories of the place.
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My Dad was self-employed in the back half of his career. He worked out of a building he owned on a main street of his hometown, with renters living upstairs. He sold the building when he retired. It's gone back up on the market. It's so strange reconciling the pictures with my memories of the place.
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
I wonder how much longer John is going to be an everyman name in #fiction? It was a very popular baby name throughout the 20th Century, but it fell out of the Top 100 around 2010. There will be inertia as old IP is repurposed, but how many new characters will be named John in the next 20 years?
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I wonder how much longer John is going to be an everyman name in #fiction? It was a very popular baby name throughout the 20th Century, but it fell out of the Top 100 around 2010. There will be inertia as old IP is repurposed, but how many new characters will be named John in the next 20 years?
In most things our dog is not a very bright bulb. I say it with love, but her brain is the size and smoothness of a clementine.
She is brilliant at risk management, though.
We've gotten her ear drops to deal with some inflammation? Second application, she's already clocked the bottle is trouble.
She is brilliant at risk management, though.
We've gotten her ear drops to deal with some inflammation? Second application, she's already clocked the bottle is trouble.
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In most things our dog is not a very bright bulb. I say it with love, but her brain is the size and smoothness of a clementine.
She is brilliant at risk management, though.
We've gotten her ear drops to deal with some inflammation? Second application, she's already clocked the bottle is trouble.
She is brilliant at risk management, though.
We've gotten her ear drops to deal with some inflammation? Second application, she's already clocked the bottle is trouble.
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This was an epic moment in television. They decided to make Snuffleupagus real at the advice of child psychologists who said children needed to know their parents would believe them if they told them about someone they knew doing things with them the parents didn’t know
[November 18th, 1985] In the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, Episode 2096, the adults on Sesame Street finally meet Mr. Snuffleupagus and realize he is real, not imaginary.
Elmo is also introduced as a new character.
Elmo is also introduced as a new character.
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This was an epic moment in television. They decided to make Snuffleupagus real at the advice of child psychologists who said children needed to know their parents would believe them if they told them about someone they knew doing things with them the parents didn’t know
A quick update on this? Yesterday was my best day for downloads since I started publishing episodes at the beginning of September. A funny thing? There were zero downloads of Episode One. Every episode downloaded yesterday was from an existing listener downloading more of the story. Very cool.
Today's episode of The Tape Recorder Trilogy Podcast —a free weekly audio drama based on 3 of my novels— will be the first of a two-parter exploring the untold history behind the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A quick update on this? Yesterday was my best day for downloads since I started publishing episodes at the beginning of September. A funny thing? There were zero downloads of Episode One. Every episode downloaded yesterday was from an existing listener downloading more of the story. Very cool.
Today's episode of The Tape Recorder Trilogy Podcast —a free weekly audio drama based on 3 of my novels— will be the first of a two-parter exploring the untold history behind the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today's episode of The Tape Recorder Trilogy Podcast —a free weekly audio drama based on 3 of my novels— will be the first of a two-parter exploring the untold history behind the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
Here's a link full of links to hear this and earlier episodes:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
Am I alone in thinking podcast ads are reinventing the wheel and getting it wrong? Have catchy jingles and dialogue-driven narratives. Push local businesses relevant to where the episode was downloaded. Radio advertising was big business for 80 years before podcasting was a thing. Do what it did.
November 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Am I alone in thinking podcast ads are reinventing the wheel and getting it wrong? Have catchy jingles and dialogue-driven narratives. Push local businesses relevant to where the episode was downloaded. Radio advertising was big business for 80 years before podcasting was a thing. Do what it did.
Today is the ten-year anniversary of the first time I ever saw the Pacific Ocean.
I'd seen the Atlantic more times than I can count by that point. I had even flown across it several times. I made it to my early 30s before seeing the Pacific.
Anyway, I thought I'd mark the anniversary here.
I'd seen the Atlantic more times than I can count by that point. I had even flown across it several times. I made it to my early 30s before seeing the Pacific.
Anyway, I thought I'd mark the anniversary here.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today is the ten-year anniversary of the first time I ever saw the Pacific Ocean.
I'd seen the Atlantic more times than I can count by that point. I had even flown across it several times. I made it to my early 30s before seeing the Pacific.
Anyway, I thought I'd mark the anniversary here.
I'd seen the Atlantic more times than I can count by that point. I had even flown across it several times. I made it to my early 30s before seeing the Pacific.
Anyway, I thought I'd mark the anniversary here.
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
#LestWeForget
My Great-Uncle Henry has passed away at 106 in his sleep.
I didn't know him well, but what I knew, I liked.
He was my late grandfather's favourite brother.
He was the last person my 100-year-old grandmother has known all her life.
May he rest in peace.
I didn't know him well, but what I knew, I liked.
He was my late grandfather's favourite brother.
He was the last person my 100-year-old grandmother has known all her life.
May he rest in peace.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My Great-Uncle Henry has passed away at 106 in his sleep.
I didn't know him well, but what I knew, I liked.
He was my late grandfather's favourite brother.
He was the last person my 100-year-old grandmother has known all her life.
May he rest in peace.
I didn't know him well, but what I knew, I liked.
He was my late grandfather's favourite brother.
He was the last person my 100-year-old grandmother has known all her life.
May he rest in peace.
For today's new episode of the free weekly audio drama I am creating based on three of my novels our narrator travels up into the Black Sea 3200 years ago to buy tin from a friendly Cimmerian horse lord.
Here's a link full of links:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#podcast #historicalfiction
Here's a link full of links:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#podcast #historicalfiction
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
For today's new episode of the free weekly audio drama I am creating based on three of my novels our narrator travels up into the Black Sea 3200 years ago to buy tin from a friendly Cimmerian horse lord.
Here's a link full of links:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#podcast #historicalfiction
Here's a link full of links:
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
#podcast #historicalfiction
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50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
🧵1/20
The first accumulating snow of the year has the good manners to arrive on a lazy Sunday when I've alresdy done all my running-around chores for the weekend. Now I just get to watch it fall through my window while I drink my coffee? How pleasant.
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The first accumulating snow of the year has the good manners to arrive on a lazy Sunday when I've alresdy done all my running-around chores for the weekend. Now I just get to watch it fall through my window while I drink my coffee? How pleasant.
I was speaking with my 100-year-old grandmother yesterday. She called Nov 11th 'Armistice Day.' Canada began calling it Remembrance Day in 1931 when she was six, although I'm sure many adults of her childhood used Armistice Day throughout their lives.
Interesting she uses the terms interchangeably.
Interesting she uses the terms interchangeably.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I was speaking with my 100-year-old grandmother yesterday. She called Nov 11th 'Armistice Day.' Canada began calling it Remembrance Day in 1931 when she was six, although I'm sure many adults of her childhood used Armistice Day throughout their lives.
Interesting she uses the terms interchangeably.
Interesting she uses the terms interchangeably.
An American friend just told me no flags were at half-mast.
A two-term vice president --arguably the most powerful VP in US history-- who in many ways was the brains behind Republican executive power in the 21st Century did not warrant flags at half mast from a Republican White House?
Crazy...
A two-term vice president --arguably the most powerful VP in US history-- who in many ways was the brains behind Republican executive power in the 21st Century did not warrant flags at half mast from a Republican White House?
Crazy...
Dick Cheney has died.
History will not remember him fondly.
History will not remember him fondly.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
An American friend just told me no flags were at half-mast.
A two-term vice president --arguably the most powerful VP in US history-- who in many ways was the brains behind Republican executive power in the 21st Century did not warrant flags at half mast from a Republican White House?
Crazy...
A two-term vice president --arguably the most powerful VP in US history-- who in many ways was the brains behind Republican executive power in the 21st Century did not warrant flags at half mast from a Republican White House?
Crazy...