Mini golf. A child's game. A sad parody of the real thing. Putters only. Mine is clutched tightly in my fist. No silly chicanes or ...

Sean and I had a brief text conversation today about, of all things, hockey, or more specifically, the amount of points needed for a team t...

Jelle's Marble Runs is a a YouTube channel featuring amazing marble runs with colour commentary. His "MarbleLympics" series ...

A hushed silence Then BOOM! explodes the cannon The crowd roars for blood

During a brief text chat with my brother, I suggested there should be an event "where you get to run over things in a steamroller....

Yesterday, I outlined my vision for an everyman Olympics , one in which everyone has at least a chance of participating, regardless of abil...

At the Olympic Games, the world's finest athletes congregate to test their mettle against each other in a wide array of sports and even...

While I think myself as a pacifist, I can't deny that much of my play and entertainment revolved (and still revolves) around fantasy vi...

240p, Lego Movie Maker? Ugh, surely. 

Here's another photo of the dog sledding race at the Leaf Rapids Winter Carnival, sometime in the mid-70s. That looks like an insurmo...

Back in the 1970s, the Leaf Rapids Winter Carnival featured, among other things, a competitive dog sledding race. I have only the vaguest...

Yesterday's post included a Frisbee. I don't remember what happened to that glow-in-the-dark model, but the pink Wham-O that preced...

I used to really get around on this tricycle in Thompson. I can still feel the texture of the hand grips. Sure, that I remember, but not ...

Sometime in the early 1980s Mom and Dad took us to Calway Park in Calgary. We played mini golf. And yet, even though I'm right there ...

Down the middle, a steam locomotive pulling a passenger train. On the right, a Corvette Stingray driven alternately by a male and a female ...