The Death Kiss (Edwin L. Marin, 1932) is a fair-to-middling comedy-mystery hybrid about a movie star who gets shot to death on a film set a...

  As I've said in the past, I don't have the knowledge or vocabulary to explain why I like certain pieces of music. All I can say ab...

Generative AI used for image only; text is original. Previously on Jedi/Superman . . .  Last Son of the Republic Growing Up Under Twin Suns ...

 The other day I came up with an idea for a novel: What if another young woman developed telekinetic powers like Carrie White, but instead o...

 

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Some months (years?) ago, Steve took of dread Cthulhu and me. Scott's paint job is astounding, and I looked on in dumbfounded amazement....

It feels like forever since I enjoyed a few minutes outside, alone, on a nice day, at one of my favourite places. Even better, this occurred...

They're Bouchers Three Oh me oh my Two of them just swung right by They came to say hello We were sorry to see them go And the strange t...

Yesterday Sylvia and I drove to Mom and Dad's place one last time so that she could have a final look. The place felt empty, and so did ...

The call, it came Sans question mark And so I answered On a lark Yet no reply Came back to me I never left They didn't see  

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

In John M. Ford's How Much for Just the Planet?, one of my favourite media tie-in novels, Kirk and a Klingon get involved in a slapstick...

Today, Sean and I finished emptying out Mom and Dad's house. In a few days the new owners will take possession.  It's a bittersweet ...

Somewhere on one of the endless parallel Earths, Roy Lichtenstein painted Yes, Lois!  He released the piece to great fanfare (and puzzlement...

I've avoided writing about Alberta politics very much for the last few years. It's because everything Danielle Smith and her crew of...

Approved by the Comics Code Authority and Gemini's guardrails, apparently.   

Sean was kind enough to send me some photos of where he's placed some Mom and Dad heirlooms in his condo. I love Sean's decor, so I...

Someone set him up the bomb.  "Family Feud" is the 15th episode of the fourth season of St. Elsewhere. It's also the episode t...

Here are some of Granddad's old tools. Mom and Dad mounted these on a board from one of the Etsell sheds some years ago. These tools cou...

Sean and I each brought home one of these Beacon oil lanterns, originally used on the Etsell farm in Virden, Manitoba, and residing at Mom a...

As Sean and I continue to manage Mom's estate, we inevitably come upon connections to our family's past. I took this framed certific...

I was playing with Gemini tonight and asked it to turn a collection of images of a prop from an old 1970s kid show into a futuristic ambulan...

During St. Elsewhere 's season three finale, Doctors Donald Westphall, Mark Craig, and Daniel Auschlander head to Cheers for beer.  Tele...

And Sean-io.