Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

They know that if it was opt-in, no one with a dram of sense would.

1. AI images being used in any capacity on website or socials.
2. Unpaid markets. Not expecting 10c/word, but throw us a bone.
3. "We do not accept simultaneous submissions. Please do not contact us regarding your submission. If we haven't replied to you within 24 months, assume our answer is no."

I don't get many, but they do slip through. I've always made an effort to keep my email address(es) fairly private, perhaps to the detriment of my writing career. Funnily enough, most of the ones I do receive are sent to my 9-5 work email inbox, which is publicly available.

I want to tale a full week off from it all to binge watch old Sword & Sorcery clunkers, is that too much to ask?

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

Tom Robbins wrote "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" (1994) entirely in second-person, present tense. An interesting experiment, but I don't really remember much else about the book other than one character commenting to "You" about the smell of asparagus pee.

I've had a few hours to think on this, and I am giving serious thought to sending a formal request to the Calgary Public Library to remove copies of my novel and any anthologies featuring my stories from the shelves if this proceeds.

An angry letter to my local library.

Calgary Public Library puts focus on AI art with residency The Calgary Public Library is recruiting a creative in residence who infuses their work with AI.

My book (which is on the Calgary Public Library's shelves) was stolen by Meta to be part of the dataset used to train their AI. They didn't ask if they could use it, they didn't pay me, and there's nothing I can do about it.

I'd like to talk to someone at CPL about "ethical" use of generative AI.

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"I won't listen to this album of yours because there is no piano on it."

"I won't watch this movie because Stanley Tucci isn't in it."

"I won't eat this meal you made because it is not a cheeseburger."

"I won't drive this car you made because it is not green."

Write your own, then.

FWIW, I would 100% watch a new series about the adventures Captain Kaylee and her husband, Dr Simon Frye.

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…

Haha! I wrote one of these almost five years ago.

Evergreen, I guess?

Genuine question: Are most Americans actually aware of how late y'all showed up to both World Wars, or is this left out of the curriculum?

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.

VITALIC - Poison Lips (Official) YouTube video by vitalicofficial

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!