My anthipathy for the boring beige houses that seem to be the default in Edmonton intensified when Sylvia and I visited St. John's. I wi...

In 2019, Mom accompanied Aunt Jean and Uncle John on what would ultimately be her last trip to Manitoba. I can't ask her now, so I don...

Many years ago, I wrote the following bad poem:  My Eyes Bleed Coke My eyes bleed Coke My bread doth me choke My gums fairly smoke I’m about...

 

Letterboxd's themes and nanogenres tracking is a fun idea, but it's taking a long time to tag the hundreds of thousands of films on ...

Now is the summer of our discontent Made inglorious winter by this climate change And all the clouds that poured upon our houses Endless rai...

About a decade ago, Sylvia and I stopped at the Peters' Drive-In in Red Deer en route to Calgary. I took a few wide-angle photos of the ...

 

 

Despite my wavering ambivalence of Kim Stanley Robinson's work, I continue to read his books. I purchased New York 2140 from the West E...

  Yesterday I read Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad . I devoured this book in a couple of brief sittings, enthralled by the n...

Mine, not his.   

 

"Let me know if I'm coming too close to any power lines," the chopper pilot said. "Or one of the other helicopters."...

Pete, Jeff, Mike, and I enjoyed a hard-fought but ultimate futile battle against the forces of evil in a rousing game of Dark Tower Returns....

There they were, on set, near midnight. The day had been wasted. The director, the producer, the writer--all agreed that the day's rushe...

Elections Alberta is now accepting requests for special ballots for the October 19 Alberta Referendum. Just fill out the online form and th...

  In our reality, this is the video for Keane's "Love Too Much." In the reality I visited last night, Kenneth Branagh directed...

 I gave Gemini some simple parameters and asked it to generate the mythical continents of Atlantis (above) and Lemuria (below). 

Where do you go To see the grain grow Saskatchewan, naturally For the birth of Medicare I need to go where? Saskatchewan, naturally For dark...

A few years back Aunt Jean and Uncle John were in Leduc. Here, we see Aunt Jean pretending to drink from the iron ladle that goes with her d...

Masters of the Universe (Travis Knight, 2026) delivered the kind of goofy, unhinged fun I haven't experienced in quite the same way sin...

A few weeks ago I had Gemini try to create a book cover in a style similar to the old Bantam Star Trek tie-ins of the 1970s. "Return of...

I am the very model of a hulking mad barbarian When I don't see pillaging I really get contrarian When I come for you I wield A bloody a...