To celebrate Halloween, here's a Halloween Fright Frame! Will Earl survive the attack of a demon-possessed stapler? Have no fear, Stephe...

Every Halloween, I cajole Sylvia into watching a horror movie with me. She's scared of horror movies, so I try to pick something mild; f...

Barring a global catastrophe, the world's human population will soon hit seven billion. According to this BBC application , when I was b...

  The last time my friend Colin came out to visit, we both showed up, unplanned, wearing Green Lantern t-shirts. It should come as no surpri...

Sylvia is the best part of my day every day. Today she celebrates another revolution around the sun, though she still looks like a little co...

When Sylvia and I moved in together back in 2004, over a dozen of our friends generously pitched in to help. During any move accidents are a...

According to the Canadian Lung Association , "The common cold is probably the most common respiratory (breathing) disease. Many dif...

It's Day Six of my cold and the only thing I can think coherently enough to post about is the realization that I love, love love the com...

Sean and I were supposed to go see William Shatner live at the Shaw Conference Centre tonight, but my head cold has gotten worse every day ...

As a child of the 1970s in Leaf Rapids, Manitoba, I loved making trips to the Town Centre's drug store, where a spinner rack of comic bo...

Star Trek: The Next Generation is currently being remastered for a high-definition Blu-Ray release next year, and as a science-fiction cine...

Last night I dreamed that I wandered out onto the Legislature grounds for lunch, only everything was newly refurbished and the fountains wer...

Superman did this in Superman III .

As noted a few weeks back, I plan to enter the Canada Writes contest this year. But with the November 1 deadline looming, I have yet to ban...

I consider my ability to enjoy a hot shower every day one of the greatest luxuries in life and a great achievement of science and civilizati...

Pete has completed his step-by-step behind-the-scenes tale of the preparation of the Feast of Thrones . Here are links to the complete saga:...

In 2007, Sylvia and I stayed at a condo in Canmore for Thanksgiving. While there, we played Yahtzee, and as I often do I fooled around takin...

Back in 2007, I doodled this stream of consciousness, apparently suffering temporary brain damage thanks to this commercial: Today Brian e...

Many moons ago, I served as Executive Assistant for the Western Board of Music, a charitable institution that organized music exams for stud...

Remember the CD-ROM reference software of the late eighties and early nineties - titles like Microsoft Encarta? My favourite title was proba...

Say what you will, this button helped get me elected...as the Leduc Composite High School's Public Relations Representative on Student C...

Turner Classic Movies is my favourite television channel, but every once in a while they'll air a real dud. When I saw something called ...

The tagline for the recent remake of Clash of the Titans was "Titans Will Clash." The idiocy of that drove me crazy, so of course...

Pat and Mike's Family Restaurant 17732 102 Avenue Edmonton Tucked away in Edmonton's west end among car dealerships and industri...

Tiger, tiger, sapped of might Trapped in lights of neon white What immoral wish or whim Could cage your noble soul within? I shot this phot...