Author: Geoff Micks

• Random Thought: Has Anyone Really Looked at Dinosaur Sapience?

  I was driving home from work today, and the most random question popped into my head: How do we know there weren’t any Dinosaurs species capable of creating a civilization on even a hunter-gatherer level? Has anyone taken a look to see if there’s any evidence of it? What kind of evidence would we need…

  Geoff Micks

  December 7, 2009

• A Boer War Story

  This is another photo from my grandfather’s collection. In his album the caption at the side reads, “1938. Dad (E. J. Anderson) and fishing buddy Mr. Monaham (Boer War Vet). (Dad age 49)” As in my last post, this photo inspired a story from my grandfather. I don’t know Mr. Monaham’s first name. I’ve run…

  Geoff Micks

  December 3, 2009

• A Car Story from the Early 1920s

  This is another photo from the collection I scanned up at my grandparents’ place two weekends ago. My grandfather thinks this photo was taken before he was born, which would date it prior to 1924. There is a small possibility that he’s the little boy second from the left whose face is in shadow, which…

  Geoff Micks

  December 3, 2009

• The Weakerthans’ Cat Named Virtue

  One of my favourite bands is the Weakerthans from Winnepeg, Manitoba. I first came across them a year or two back when they did an acoustic version of Civil Twilight on Toronto’s 89X. It’s the story of a bus driver whose route takes him regularly past the house where his love affair ended not with…

  Geoff Micks

  December 2, 2009

• A Poem: The Land of the Slate Grey Sea

  I first wrote this poem when I was 17. I was out of money in the Glasgow Airport overnight, waiting for my plane home. I tried to sleep, but the chairs weren’t particularly sympathetic to my fatigue. The situation was made worse by a pair of Scottish children awaiting an early morning flight for their…

  Geoff Micks

  December 2, 2009

• Awesome Pictures: Assyrian Lion Hunting

  What is it: This is a bas relief panel carved in limestone from an enormous frieze depicting the royal lion hunts of Assyria, built for the North Palace of Nineveh, circa 645-635 BC. It is now on display at the British Museum in London in a massive hall that will take your breath away. Why…

  Geoff Micks

  December 1, 2009

• A Play: Performance Evaluation

  Yesterday I put up a play I wrote back in OAC Writer’s Craft, and it ended up being my top post of the day. I actually did two plays in that course. I was going to wait a bit before releasing the other one, but I suppose there’s no sense holding it back if people…

  Geoff Micks

  December 1, 2009

• Crest Advertising Campaign: You Can Say Anything With A Smile

  Call me a willing consumer in a key demographic of a capitalist society, but I love a good ad campaign. Crest is already my toothpaste brand, but if it wasn’t, this campaign would make me change my mind. Hell, I almost –almost– took up drinking Canadian just to support the fantastic I Am Canadian campaign.…

  Geoff Micks

  November 30, 2009

• Best of the Web: Old Picture of the Day

  I came across this blog yesterday, and I’ve already decided I’m going to check it every day from now on. The site is run by a man from Christoval, Texas; every day he puts up an interesting old photo, with a brief explanation of what it’s all about. It seems he often does weekly themes…

  Geoff Micks

  November 30, 2009

• A Play: The Artists’ Farce

  I took OAC Writer’s Craft in my last year of high school. For anyone not familiar with the Ontario secondary school system prior to 2004, there used to be grades 9 through 12, and then there was an optional fifth year of courses called Ontario Academic Credits that functioned as university prerequisites. You could take…

  Geoff Micks

  November 30, 2009