This certificate hung around Mom and Dad's house for decades, not much spoken about. It reveals that Dad's dad, William James Woods,...

I first heard Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be" when it came up as the new opening theme for season two of The Leftovers. The...

Bell, Book, Candle: Accursing  Officially, Excommunication assured. 

Priest Torch Pitchfork Zombie moans A clash of two species Faith at a fever pitch, forks up A scent of ascension dissipates forever Blood, f...

 

  At Hell's lunch counter Beelzebub and Mammon  Serve everything you hate Week after week like this:  Liver and tripe Monday Turnip Tues...

Here's another miniature I painted using the same mix of techniques as yesterday's knight. In this case, I think it's fair to sa...

Today I painted some very tiny representations of the Ark of the Covenant, A Cthulhu idol, the Holy Grail, and the Maltese Falcon. These eff...

I asked Stable Diffusion to imagine John the Baptist with ten points of articulation and accessories, but I did NOT ask for a half-naked ver...

Barabbas (Richard Fleischer, 1961) might be one of the most interesting takes I've seen on the Christ story; this time, we follow the jo...

Just before the climax of William Shatner's Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , Captain James T. Kirk (Shatner again) asks a powerful nonc...

My robes are royal purple with gold trim, sharp at the shoulders, sleek of cut, almost unadorned save for three gold buttons on the high bl...

Last night I screened Lilies of the Field , a 1963 Best Picture nominee, featuring the performance that earned Sidney Poitier the Best Act...

On Saturday, Sylvia and I paid a visit to Edmonton's state-of-the-art waste reclamation facility, AKA "the dump." I know it...

In 2009, I shot this photo of a bible in the Breadalbane church near Virden, Manitoba. 

Full Fathom Fish Fry Cries the crier on the pier Flipping fillets for five friars Serving up his bitter beer Drink your ale and eat yo...

In a fit of boredom I babbled on Facebook for a while about a new series of films based on a nun who is also a ninja - or a Nunja. Recreate...

Over the course of the last month I've read 13 novels by Philip K. Dick. It's been a revelation, and I choose that word carefully; ...

My friend Jeff has dramatized our recent basement near-flood over at Jeff Shyluk's Visual Blog. I'm afraid I didn't look near...

Today I attempted to tell Sylvia that I had arranged a trip to IKEA with Sean. The text above is supposed to read "I need two small boo...