In Villains and Vigilantes, you create characters by assigning a certain number of character points to your primary attributes (strength, en...

 

While Mom recovers from pneumonia, Sean and I have been helping around her place, cleaning up and so forth. I found this Flin Flon Bombers ...

"Ya gotta hit him from the left, ya lousy bum! Are you throwing this fight on purpose? You better be, because if this performance is re...

"Okay boys, remember: I want a dirty fight. No hitting above the belt, no one goes to their corner until one of you is unconscious....

Edmonton's current heat wave triggered a painful memory today. Back in junior high, we sometimes played team sports in gym class. I didn...

Sean (and many others) were quite happy about the latest Edmonton Oilers win in the current NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. During a text discussi...

  I was fortunate enough to meet Norman Kwong when he took over from Lois Hole as Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, and I wrote speeches for h...

 

Old Harry Potter A solitary birthday  Lunch and cake for one  

I painted this dugout in University of Alberta colours. My first attempt was pretty bad, just a mess, with many visible brush strokes, uneve...

Rao knows I love Richard Donner's Superman (1978), the film that cemented my love for the characters and stories that made up the world ...

Steve McQueen has only a few lines of dialogue in Lee H. Katzin's Le Mans , and most of his screen time is spent behind the wheel of hi...

Flickering candle Watches the silent bonspiel Stones under the gun

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...

A film with tremendous integrity, All the Right Moves (Michael Chapman, 1983) puts skewed cultural priorities into grim perspective. It...

Usually I'm unmoved by Will Smith's performances, but he was magnificent in this - so much so that I forgot I was watching Will Smi...

Thanks to the generous gift of an Amazon gift card, I was able to purchase Amazon's well-regarded portable photo studio. I tested it ...

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