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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here is my favourite Staff and Branch dice box, a tree in gorgeous autumn colours. One of the boxes from the inadvertent double order from @seananmcguire.bsky.social.

A circular black walnut dice box with a colourful resin inlay that depicts a tree in autumn foliage. The leaves are a mixture of green, orange and gold. A set of white TTRPG dice with black numbers are displayed in the foreground.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did you have a chance to visit the William deGarthe Gallery? We had our family vacations in nearby Mahone Bay during the 60’s. A Peggy’s Cove visit was a staple event, and deGarthe was still painting in his studio at that time. I have several prints and even a couple of small originals.

A painting of a schooner floating on a calm sea. A William deGarthe original, he was the resident artist in Peggy’s Cove, NS, for decades during the middle of the last century.

A seascape of a tumultuous surf at Peggy’s Cove, NS, with its famous lighthouse in the background. A William deGarthe original, he was the resident artist in Peggy’s Cove for decades during the middle of the last century.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

William Shatner, Lucas Bryant, Emily Rose. From a late Season 5 episode of Haven.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

No cheating, post your lock screen.

A 2026 collaboration photo of the Eagle Nebula, by space artists Cathrin Machin and James McCarthy, home to the Pillars of Creation. Predominant features are in various shades of orange, with a central patch of blue which forms a backdrop that highlights the Pillars.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Your superb craftsmanship and artistry is also displayed in the rectangular sapele tarot deck box that resides on my dresser. I count myself fortunate to have been able to purchase it.

Rectangular sapele tarot deck box with a large blue and black epoxy filled ovate cutout where silver phases of the moon are up top and a luna moth resides below. The top is sitting above the base. Inside are two places for a tarot deck tied with black ribbon to be lifted up more easily. The center has a circle and place around the circle for storage of crystals and or tea lights etc.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Many thanks to Tim, aka @staffandbranch.bsky.social! I discovered his outstanding dice box creations via @seananmcguire.bsky.social back on the old site (during its pre-fascist days). Lucky enough to purchase one of boxes from Seanan’s duplicate order when mail delivery was so unreliable.

Pictured is a circular black walnut dice box with a colourful resin inlay, from Staff and Branch. The resin depicts a tree in autumn foliage. The leaves are a mixture of green, orange and gold.
A white set of TTRPG dice with black numbers is in the foreground.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m getting older and am completely biased. May I present my captain? IMO, Jean Béliveau is at the pinnacle of iconic athletes for his dedicated service to his community during his entire career, and that service continued for his entire life after he retired.

Probably a team publicity photo of Jean Béliveau in the red, white, and blue home uniform of the Montréal Canadiens. His jersey has the team captain’s ‘C’ on its upper left chest area, and he was captured skating toward the camera with the puck in front in the foreground.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Please pass the sticker credit to Nix.

Screen capture of a GoFundMe donation receipt for Nix.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A multicoloured set of TTRPG dice by @longdogdice.com, with a speckled dragon skin pattern. Subdued hues of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

A multicoloured set of TTRPG dice with a speckled dragon skin pattern. Subdued hues of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Prompt: Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Wow, thanks for this! I’ve signed up to receive the notification that the print is available. I have a fondness for tigers, at a safe distance of course!

Print of a painting by Douglas Manning titled ‘Bengal Beauty’ which depicts a magnificent Bengal tiger. It is standing in tall grass, looking to its left, against a background of blue sky and white clouds.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My mother’s family moved from Newfoundland to Halifax, where she was born. I learned to play on a family heirloom, a board carved from a walrus tusk, with sliver trim borders. This was passed down to me because I spent four summers studying walruses on an uninhabited island in Northern Hudson Bay.

A cribbage board carved from a walrus tusk, with sliver trim borders.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is my second choice. Gate of Ivrel is number one, the first of many CJ Cherry books, and the first of a wealth of outstanding @michaelwhelan.bsky.social covers. It captures the heart of the story in my mind.

White-haired Morgaine stands triumphantly with arms stretched overhead as she draws a gleaming sword from its sheath. A gate frames her from behind. The central portal is filled with a field of stars and the outer edge of the gate is patterned with futuristic circuitry. On one knee before Morgaine, a warrior grips the handle and crossguard of a curved sword with the tip of the blade planted in the ground.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Share a television show that raised you. Harry’s choice, plus:

The title screen for The Outer Limits, 1963 series.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you."

Cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #33. Spidey is pinned beneath an enormous piece of machinery as water floods into the underwater lair of Dr. Octopus. Title for the issue is located under the masthead, ‘The Final Chapter’.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Ooo, bookmarks! I still have my THE MERMAID’S MADNESS bookmark from the Montréal Worldcon in 2009. in my haphazard collection. And one from the British pavilion at Expo67, the Montréal World’s Fair. It was a magical summer for my best friend and me. We were 15 years old, and the Metro was brand new.

A photo of two bookmarks. The one on the right features the cover art from The Mermaid’s Madness by Jim C. Hines. Three women dressed in pirate outfits are perched on the bow of a ship which has a carved wooden mermaid as its bow ornament.
The one on the left is black with white lettering and two stylized Union Jacks on the top. Main caption is “Books from Britain” and on the bottom “expo67”, from the Montréal World’s Fair in 1967.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Those gauntlets look like the old time hockey ones that actually protected the players’ wrists and forearms, only on steroids! Today’s hockey gloves provide more dexterity at the expense of protection and safety.

Probably a team publicity photo of the legendary Jean Béliveau in the red, white, and blue home uniform of the Montréal Canadiens. His jersey has the team captain’s ‘C’ on its upper left chest area, and he was captured skating toward the camera with the puck in front in the foreground.
Take note of his gauntlets which provided protection for his wrists and forearms.

Béliveau is at the pinnacle of iconic athletes for his dedicated service to his community during his entire career, and that service continued for his entire life after he retired.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This is the sixth Halloween wearing my La Calavera mask by @johnpicacio.bsky.social. Raven and Blood Moon T-shirt from @dicegoblinriddles.bsky.social Lots of compliments from trick-r-treaters again tonight!

Wearing a cloth mask with the La Calavera image by John Picacio, and a
Raven and Blood Moon T-shirt from DGRiddles.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

From the distance, the shape and the lighting remind of a tiger in a relaxed crouch. I have fondness for tigers, and other large predators, but at a safe distance!

Print of a painting by Douglas Manning titled ‘Bengal Beauty’ which depicts a magnificent Bengal tiger. It is standing in long grass, looking to its left, against a background of blue sky and white clouds.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.

Promo poster for Disney’s animated Sleeping Beauty.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I am fascinated by them too, but their fragility inspires an uneasy sense of dread following the massive ice storm in southern Quebec, eastern Ontario, and parts of northern New England that we endured in early January 1998. 🥶

Crumpled Hydro transmission towers in Quebec in January 1998. Ice accumulation of three to four inches from a succession of freezing rain storms caused the collapse of the towers.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I bought this DAW edition for the cover! The 1967 Lancer edition that I bought in the high school bookstore was for the story. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.

Cover of the 1967 Lancer edition of Stormbringer, by Michael Moorcock.
Elric is portrayed as a slender albino wearing a green tunic and a flowing red cape, and wielding an enormous shimmering black sword. A huge full moon in an orange sky forms the background, with an eerie castle in the distance.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

There is an online store in Alberta that sells a bunch of fun T-shirts, @kopke613.bsky.social. Here is one that I love wearing, the Certified Canadian Donor. He has another for Alberta separatists, the BLOC Rednéckquois shirt. Also hoodie and long sleeve styles. I’m happy with the ones I have.

A forest green T-shirt with 2 white circles on the chest. A white outline of a mosquito is contained in the inner circle. A description in white lettering is inside the outer circle ‘Certified Canadian Donor . Giving blood, unwillingly .’

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Okay, timeline cleanse. Post an image from your summer that confers peace.

Morning Glory vines climbing our fence and downspout, with a profusion of purple flowers. The red brick wall of the house is on the right side of the photo, with several red blossoms visible on the other side of the fence.

Closeup of a young chipmunk sitting on a fence and hiding behind the leaves of a Morning Glory vine, beside a white downspout against a red brick wall.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We have a flowering Hawthorn tree in our backyard where I string holiday lights in the winter. Great view from the dining room, kitchen and upstairs bathroom. The lights start going up at the end of November and come down in early March. Any later and the squirrels get busy chewing the wires.

A gnarled Flowering Hawthorn tree in the backyard.

A gnarled Flowering Hawthorn tree in the backyard, decorated with many strings of holiday lights for the winter. A wire framed snowman, complete with top hat, and outlined with white lights sits near the bottom of the tree.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Several years ago we lost a large Norway maple that belonged to the city. Its roots were badly damaged a few years earlier by the burying of a new gas main. We do have a flowering Hawthorn tree in our backyard where I string holiday lights in the winter. Great view from the dining room and kitchen.

A gnarled Flowering Hawthorn tree in the backyard, decorated with many strings of holiday lights for the winter.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Multiplicity, co-starring Andie MacDowell.

A promotional photo for Multiplicity, starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell. It depicts several versions of Keaton posing with MacDowell.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The Bloc Rednéckquois t-shirt for Alberta separatists, courtesy of @kopke613.bsky.social. They are available from his web store. I have one but I’d never wear it outside here in Montréal.

A red t-shirt with white lettering that reads ‘Bloc Rednéckquois’. The unofficial shirt for Alberta separatists.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

If you see this, post a Marvel cover you love.

Cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #33. Spidey is pinned beneath an enormous piece of machinery as water floods the underwater lair of Dr. Octopus. Title for the issue is located under the masthead, ‘The Final Chapter’.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Ooo, bookmarks! I still have my THE MERMAID’S MADNESS bookmark from the Montréal Worldcon in 2009. And one from the British pavilion at Expo67, the Montréal World’s Fair. It was a magical summer for my best friend and me. We were 15 years old, and the Metro was brand new.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“Bunnies! Bunnies! it must be bunnies!” So cute, and the bane of our flower gardens. We had a lovely crop of sunflowers in 2018, and since then the bunnies have mowed them down every year. ☹️🤬

The corner of a brick and aluminum siding house with a small garden featuring sunflowers that reached a height of 10 feet.

Closeup of a sunflower blossom being visited by a black and yellow bumblebee.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode, no SW, ST, or LOTR

HAL9000 from 2001: a space odyssey.
A circular lens looking like an eye with a red iris and yellow pupil. White text loops over the image “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Movie you've watched (way!) more than six times using gifs. Not a gif, just a still image. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

A band of armed horsemen riding along a beach at the edge of the surf. One rider is carrying a banner with three pale crescent moons on a dark green background.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LoTR)

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

These glasses look even better in person. I’ll initiate one tonight with some whiskey stones and Michter’s Small Batch Bourbon (favoured by Jessica Jones), both recommended by @stonekettle.bsky.social. Sadly, Bourbon is on the boycott for life list, it’s Canadian Rye when the Michter’s is finished.

Two scotch glasses etched with the starfleet badge design from the film Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

And now it’s providing a home for the Dark Fantasy Tarot card deck from @jedwardneill.bsky.social.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Wow! Not only is it a beautiful piece of art and craftsmanship, it is LARGE! Thanks Tim! P.S. I copied your photo and ALT text for the tarot box. 😊

There is a row of three circular wood and epoxy resin dice boxes in the upper portion of the photo, all from Staff and Branch. In the centre is a figured silver maple dice box with a beautifully complex grain pattern. It is inlaid with resin in a red, orange, and yellow leaf vein pattern.

Two black walnut dice boxes with colourful resin inlays are on either side of the maple box. The resin in the right hand box has shades of blue on the left side, a black transition in the centre, and a blend of red, orange, and yellow on the right, in a mesmerizing swirling pattern. The resin in the left hand box depicts a tree in autumn foliage. The leaves are a mixture of green, orange and gold.

On the bottom portion is a large rectangular sapele tarot deck box with a large blue and black epoxy filled ovate cutout where silver phases of the moon are up top and a luna moth resides below.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about who you aspire to emulate.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Post yourself from a different era: Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados, January 1976. Three grad students dressed to return to Montréal after visiting their fellow students in their island paradise. I’m the one in the middle.

Post yourself from a different era: Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados, January 1976. Three grad students dressed in blue jeans and shirts to return to Montréal after visiting their fellow students in their island paradise. I’m the one in the middle wearing a blue T-shirt.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My daughter has resurrected plants that look much worse. Her potted hibiscus plants look like sticks after wintering indoors and look pretty good by midsummer.

A potted hibiscus plant with red and orange flowers dominates the foreground. A variety of different flowering plants are slightly out of focus in the background.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Brrrr! Shades of a novel that I read in Grade 9, The Furies by Keith Roberts (author of Pavane). That said, my brother and one of my friends had a phobia around wasps so I was the one painted around the nests during our summers working as house painters while in university. Good times!

Cover for the Berkeley Medallion edition of The Furies by Keith Roberts, art by Paul Lehr. A giant wasp is facing forward in the foreground, a huge nest with wasps in flight and on the surface form the background, and more wasps are on the ground herding naked humans in front of the nest. The book’s title is in large yellow letters on the top portion of the cover. The general colour scheme is a blend of dull yellow and shades of brown. The wasp’s eyes are an eerie shade of orange.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Is there a chance of being able to order a multicoloured dragon skin set similar to the one you pictured several months ago?

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Looking forward to the result of hanging strings of lights in our gnarly backyard flowering Hawthorn tree. As the years go by, a little less forward to climbing the ladder. 😊 Have to wait for December otherwise the squirrels chew the wires and toss the bulbs on the ground. 🤬

A leafless, gnarly flowering Hawthorn tree in the backyard. Stone patio in the foreground, a cabanon (storage shed) in the background, and a paltry amount of snow on the ground.

A leafless, gnarly flowering Hawthorn tree in the backyard at night, festooned with clear and multicoloured lights. Stone patio in the foreground, a cabanon (storage shed) in the background, and a paltry amount of snow on the ground. Also a snowman on the left and a reindeer on the right, both sporting clear lights.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

And they have been baptized! Nespresso shots (the discount person’s espresso 😁). I’m retired so there’s a little Jameson supplement in my mug, my wife of 47 years has a little hot milk in hers after a long day at the office.

Two glass Autumn Vibes Irish coffee mugs ready to serve on their inaugural deployment. Courtesy of MC-Etching who has etched a beautiful leaf pattern into the glass of the mugs.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I somehow have a dozen(!) and they are all beautiful, but here are my two favourites. 😊

Two circular black walnut dice boxes with colourful resin inlays. The resin in the upper box has shades of blue on the left side, a black transition in the centre, and a blend of red, orange, and yellow on the right, in a mesmerizing swirling pattern.
The resin in the lower box depicts a tree in autumn foliage. The leaves are a mixture of green, orange and gold.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

The front and back pages to ‘Candles, Snow & Mistletoe’ by Sharon, Lois & Bram, released in 1993.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

I purchased the Autumn Leaves of Lorien Woods and it’s even more beautiful in person. The figured silver maple is gorgeous! It was excellent value at full price and its cousin is a bargain with the discount, if one’s budget allows.

A circular figured silver maple dice box with a beautifully complex grain pattern from Staff and Branch. It is inlaid with resin in a red, orange, and gold leaf vein pattern.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

This is so cool, just like May 10th! It’s cloudy here in Montréal tonight. 😢 Here’s one from our son in Saskatoon.

Aurora borealis over Saskatoon October 10, 2024. A curtain of purple, pink, and green stretching across the sky.

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