Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They have Chick-Fil-A, what more do they want?

Star Trek Voyager scene. We see a small, lone shuttlecraft fllying through a cloudy sky. Closed caption reads, "(screaming)"

Firefly is coming back! No, it isn’t. But… could it? Maybe! Who knows? Fandom loves a milestone. Here’s one for you… as of this week Firefly has been off the air for as long as Star Trek had been when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. Well, okay, it depe…

I wrote this almost five years ago.

Good. "Anna" stole my book. I hope they get sued down to the Earth's molten core.

Image shows the cover of a book titled "Knives, Knife Fighting & Related Hassles" by Marc 'Animal' MacYoung. The author is pictured on the cover.

This is an actual book I once found on the shelves of the library I worked at.

I'd read it.

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From this morning's workout playlist.

There ain't no party like a Matt's scalp party!

TODAY is the last day to submit to Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction V4. Get your 2025 stories in! Do it! Do it nowww... before there's still time!

Seriously. Even Henry Ford understood that when workers have money in their pockets, they spend.

This would be a situation where I would start checking thrift stores for the DVDs. The streaming landscape is far too fractured and shifting for this.

I may need to revise the Foreword to 'The Machines That Make Us' now...

(Check it out via @tychebooks.bsky.social )

What's a line delivery you'll never forget?

"This -rabble- you're talking about? They do most of the living and working and paying and dying in this community!"

Everybody have fun tonight
(or there's gonna be trouble)

I used mine for Sheng Wang tickets this year!

I love this cover!

I want you to bamf me,
I need you to bamf me,
I'd love you to bamf me,
I'm beggin' you to bamf me...

Email from LinkedIn: "You have 1 new message."

*logs in*

Message in Inbox: "Hello, we are LinkedIn."

As a youth reading Dune in the mid-90s, the Butlerian Jihad seemed so far-fetched and unlikely. But, y'know... now I get it.

Share a TV show that raised you.

I have kind of a theory that if you grew up watching syndicated MASH reruns with your parents, you probably turned out alright.

They don't care. You can't shame the shameless.

I mean, we're up against people who think *we* are wrong for not doing things with "the new tools," or whatever nonsense excuse they've cooked up this week.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cut the shit.

And by "who" I mean I don't know anyone by name who is force-feeding slop into the submissions trenches, but if it's you then cut the shit. The rest of us have work to do.

Show me your Uber driver.

I hate that this is happening again, and at the hands of the same conductor as the debacle that was DarkLit Press.

Closer to 8%, if the polls are to be believed, but yes.

We could also send her on a one-way trip thusly, and solve many of our problems.

There's still time to get your submissions in for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction! I've got my 2025 story in their inbox already, so make sure you do, too!

Don't forget how much real estate Calgary CoOp owns, and the ongoing redevelopment of these sites. This is about more than just the price of beans.

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Important reminder: The deadline to complete the title submission form(s) for the 2026 CCBC Book Awards is February 28, 2026