Months ago, I asked Bing Image Generator to craft a portrait of Ron, Allan, Carrie, and me mowing the lawn in front of the Bleak House of Bl...

A couple of weeks ago I found an old CD-ROM with some of my friend Jeff's art, specifically, art he'd created to customize characte...

Back in October 2009, I started writing a review of Iain M. Banks' Transition, a novel about parallel universes and, tangentially, ecli...

As the video above explains, I'm playing the part of myself as I appeared in Toilet Chase , an unproduced screenplay from the early 1...

Although my copy of Civilization VI appeared midweek and I did play for a couple of furtive hours on Tuesday night, I'm devoting this ...

Back when I lived in the Bleak House of Blahs, I had a stand-up cardboard Superman given to me by the folks at comic store Warp One. One ...

Sometime during 1992 or 1993, Ron and Jeff played with a Crash Dummies set at the Bleak House of Blahs. I was around for the first few min...

Rotten Pasta Contrary to popular belief, pasta does not last forever simply because you've put it in a Tupperware container in the fri...

Jeff is working on a Toilet Chase deck building game based on our shared experiences at the Bleak House of Blahs back in the early 90s and...

A couple of years ago I posted a list of my favourite words . Such tastes evolve over time, and thanks to Ron and his Freedom BBS there...

When I started this blog, I called it The Bleak House of Blahgs in memory of my short but memorable time living with Ron, Allan and (brie...

1) Those Jack Ryan movies weren't very good, except maybe the first one. 2) I sure wasted a lot of time, money and effort taping every...

Back in the late 40s/early 50s DC produced a short-lived comic featuring the fictional adventures of real-life movie star Alan Ladd . Som...

Ten years ago , my career as a professional writer was well underway. I'd written or contributed to a number of bestselling gardening bo...

A modern CGI recreation of Deep Space Nine by artist Tobias Richter. Twenty years ago this week, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered. D...

My old friend Allan is enjoying some Internet fame at the moment thanks to a simple but clever observation about the exponentially increasin...

Earl, Ron and Ron's future wife Joanne relaxing in the Ron Room at the Bleak House of Blahs, July 1993. For once, we decided to cook....

On June 18, Sylvia and I travelled to visit some old friends in Vancouver - Jeff and Susan Shyluk and Steven Neumann, Susan's brother. T...

In the comments of my last blog post, Jeff Shyluk makes an oblique reference to an answering machine message I created that "somehow...

Allan and Ron in the Ron Room Located in the northeast corner of the main floor, the Ron Room was home to Ron Briscoe's television, co...