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
From Dec 4-Dec 24 I'm going to do a daily #Christmas post.
First up? Here's comedian Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson singing, "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas." It's a mostly forgotten novelty song from 1949. I'm told it made my father's father laugh until he cried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7c...
First up? Here's comedian Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson singing, "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas." It's a mostly forgotten novelty song from 1949. I'm told it made my father's father laugh until he cried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7c...
I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson
YouTube video by fatgator46
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December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
From Dec 4-Dec 24 I'm going to do a daily #Christmas post.
First up? Here's comedian Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson singing, "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas." It's a mostly forgotten novelty song from 1949. I'm told it made my father's father laugh until he cried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7c...
First up? Here's comedian Harry Stewart as Yogi Yorgesson singing, "I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas." It's a mostly forgotten novelty song from 1949. I'm told it made my father's father laugh until he cried.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7c...
Sometimes I think, "I'm so flexible and open to change."
Then I remember I chose a mom-and-pop pharmacy in my neighbourhood in 2007 out of convenience and a preference to support local businesses. I moved away in 2010, and then I commuted back there for 13+ years rather than get a new pharmacist.
Then I remember I chose a mom-and-pop pharmacy in my neighbourhood in 2007 out of convenience and a preference to support local businesses. I moved away in 2010, and then I commuted back there for 13+ years rather than get a new pharmacist.
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sometimes I think, "I'm so flexible and open to change."
Then I remember I chose a mom-and-pop pharmacy in my neighbourhood in 2007 out of convenience and a preference to support local businesses. I moved away in 2010, and then I commuted back there for 13+ years rather than get a new pharmacist.
Then I remember I chose a mom-and-pop pharmacy in my neighbourhood in 2007 out of convenience and a preference to support local businesses. I moved away in 2010, and then I commuted back there for 13+ years rather than get a new pharmacist.
Finally getting a chance to watch the Second Season of Andor. It's as good as everyone says. Funnily enough, I recently did a rewatch of the old Le Carre miniseries Smiley's People. Crazy how great spy fiction works in both 1970s Europe and a Galaxy Far Far Away.
December 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Finally getting a chance to watch the Second Season of Andor. It's as good as everyone says. Funnily enough, I recently did a rewatch of the old Le Carre miniseries Smiley's People. Crazy how great spy fiction works in both 1970s Europe and a Galaxy Far Far Away.
TIL when The Beatles played in Hamburg (1960-62 before becoming famous), it was common for bouncers and security at the music venues to be one-armed veterans. The German kids respected their elders enough not to try and take advantage of disabled men doing a job that should have required two hands.
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
TIL when The Beatles played in Hamburg (1960-62 before becoming famous), it was common for bouncers and security at the music venues to be one-armed veterans. The German kids respected their elders enough not to try and take advantage of disabled men doing a job that should have required two hands.
This week's episode of my #audiodrama is based on the final chapter and outro of my novel Beginning. Next week there will be historical notes and acknowledgments, but in terms of the narrative of the story, this concludes Season One of The Tape Recorder Trilogy #Podcast.
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linktr.ee/taperecorder...
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This week's episode of my #audiodrama is based on the final chapter and outro of my novel Beginning. Next week there will be historical notes and acknowledgments, but in terms of the narrative of the story, this concludes Season One of The Tape Recorder Trilogy #Podcast.
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
linktr.ee/taperecorder...
A thing I get fixated on time & time again, and then have to train myself to stop doing?
When someone on television wears glasses, I look at how the lenses distort what's on the far side to guess how strong their prescription is, and spot who is wearing glasses as a non-functional aesthetic choice.
When someone on television wears glasses, I look at how the lenses distort what's on the far side to guess how strong their prescription is, and spot who is wearing glasses as a non-functional aesthetic choice.
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
A thing I get fixated on time & time again, and then have to train myself to stop doing?
When someone on television wears glasses, I look at how the lenses distort what's on the far side to guess how strong their prescription is, and spot who is wearing glasses as a non-functional aesthetic choice.
When someone on television wears glasses, I look at how the lenses distort what's on the far side to guess how strong their prescription is, and spot who is wearing glasses as a non-functional aesthetic choice.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
The Hundred Years War was really a French civil war where one side were the French who ruled England. Fighting it defined the French and English aristocracies as separate entities. The conflict ended with the War of the Roses, an English civil war in part over the failures of the Hundred Years.
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Hundred Years War was really a French civil war where one side were the French who ruled England. Fighting it defined the French and English aristocracies as separate entities. The conflict ended with the War of the Roses, an English civil war in part over the failures of the Hundred Years.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
(I'm mostly doing this because @williamhperkins.bsky.social's post was related to Commander Keen, a side-scrolling computer game I dearly loved as a kid.)
(I'm mostly doing this because @williamhperkins.bsky.social's post was related to Commander Keen, a side-scrolling computer game I dearly loved as a kid.)
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
(I'm mostly doing this because @williamhperkins.bsky.social's post was related to Commander Keen, a side-scrolling computer game I dearly loved as a kid.)
(I'm mostly doing this because @williamhperkins.bsky.social's post was related to Commander Keen, a side-scrolling computer game I dearly loved as a kid.)
My wife and I watch cooking shows on YouTube during breakfast on Saturday mornings. Today, somehow, we got into hotdogs from around the world.
Maybe it's just my own WASPy childhood, but I believe strongly if your hands are wet with condiments at the end of eating a hotdog, you have failed somehow.
Maybe it's just my own WASPy childhood, but I believe strongly if your hands are wet with condiments at the end of eating a hotdog, you have failed somehow.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My wife and I watch cooking shows on YouTube during breakfast on Saturday mornings. Today, somehow, we got into hotdogs from around the world.
Maybe it's just my own WASPy childhood, but I believe strongly if your hands are wet with condiments at the end of eating a hotdog, you have failed somehow.
Maybe it's just my own WASPy childhood, but I believe strongly if your hands are wet with condiments at the end of eating a hotdog, you have failed somehow.
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.
Reposted by Geoff Micks
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.