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Geoff Micks

@faceintheblue.bsky.social

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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

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · Aug 2

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
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Arran J @acrossarran.bsky.social · 16h

It's not often I find myself reading Equestrian Life on a Sunday morning but here we are: www.equestrianlife.com.au/articles/dro...

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 16h

There is something to be said for the idea of being so disappointing that your name becomes a nationwide term of derision that now see's him remembered for his failures long after any successes he may have had would long-since have been forgotten.

How many 1920s racehorses can you name?

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 16h

I am broadly familiar with the Australian insult 'Drongo.'

You can figure it out from context clues. It's a colourful and not-necessarily-mean-spirited way to call someone an idiot.

I just looked up the etymology. It comes from a famous, well-bred 1920s racehorse that failed to win 37 races.

Fun!

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 18h

I swear this post is totally unrelated to the LA Dodgers winning the World Series.

I just saw a map of Los Angeles, and it occurs to me it might be the largest, most consequential city in the world where I still have no basic understanding of its geography. I know place names but can't place them.

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the memories, and let's do it again next year.

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

I have said it in jest a couple of times, but I really do mean it. I'm a #Toronto sports fan. Losing doesn't hurt me that much. We made it to the #WorldSeries. The World Series!

I'm both proud and delighted with the #BlueJays. They put on a great show in and out all season and post-season long.

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Liz Mitchell @lizmitch.bsky.social · 1d

Please Canadian Jesus #bluejays

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. It was a friend of a friend I know 'in real life' and on both platforms.

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Vladddddddyyyyyy!!!!!!

#BlueJays ##WorldSeries

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

I had someone reach out a few days ago. My account was hacked and retweeting softcore porn. I got my account back, deleted the relevant stuff, and finally pulled the plug on the account. I'm never going back. Why keep it online and open to future hacking?

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers take the lead with a solo home run at the top of the 11th.

Can the #BlueJays answer it?

#WorldSeries #Game7 #PushesChipsDramaticallyAllInWhilePeopleAroundTheTableMutter

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thepudgylife.bsky.social @thepudgylife.bsky.social · 1d

Feels better with Bieber in #BlueJays

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A.E. Maronegri (He/Him) @maronegri76.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever wins this World Series will have earned it.

No shame in losing this beast of a series.

#WorldSeries
#Dodgers
#BlueJays

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

I just told my wife I'm going to get into the 'not bought for tonight' booze...

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

With the asterisk that the #BlueJays 'latest' function didn't work for the first several hours of the World Series Game 7.

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

My wife is now only watching #BlueJays at bats. She spends the top of the innings outside eyeline and earshot of the television.

#WorldSeries #Game7

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

It is now the first time the #BlueJays have ever played on November 2nd.

On to the 11th...

#WorldSeries #Game7

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Napping until Remembrance Day @napsandsarcasm.bsky.social · 1d

Schneider is FINALLY warming up Bieber

#Bluejays

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how we got out of that top of the 10th inning. I was here. I was watching. I don't quite believe it.

On to the bottom of the 10th!

#BlueJays #WorldSeries #Game7 #HowIsThisHappening?

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Rushabh Vora @rushvora.com · 1d

Easily one of the most intense and crazy games I've seen, and for it to be the Game 7 of the World Series, oh my god. What in the world was that bottom of the 9th inning!! #MLB #Dodgers #BlueJays

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Bases loaded. One out. We're... Yeah, our goose is being probed by a meat thermometer to check doneness. #BlueJays #WorldSeries

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Hardev @itsnothardev.bsky.social · 1d

Please. I don’t want 18 innings of this. #bluejays

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Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

So... Extra innings.

Goody...

#BlueJays #WorldSeries

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

His foot came off home plate?

That was not clear cut at all.

#BlueJays #WorldSeries

Geoff Micks @faceintheblue.bsky.social · 1d

Beat us. Pardon my typo.