As part of my continuing quest to digitize the Woods family photos, I scanned this image of Sean and Dad in Vancouver some months ago. Whi...

It seemed an innocent enough pose, but little did Earl know that asking his parents to pose in just that way at just that moment, combined...

Everything old is new again! Today Northlands announced that the annual Edmonton summer fair will henceforth be named K-Days . The "K,...

Way back in 1998 I entered the dangerous world of Baldur's Gate , a Dungeons & Dragons adventure game for the PC and, not insignific...

Since the Olympics start today in London, a sport-themed story seems appropriate. This, then, is the tale of my single greatest accomplish...

I far prefer photos of people over places and things, but I'm shy about photographing my friends and family members for fear of being ...

Sean, Steve and I resumed painting tonight, and after two and a half hours of solid work, my squadron is starting to look half-decent, ...

Art and dialogue by Daniel Brereton. After battling an ancient and dangerous god to a standstill, the Justice League discusses future op...

Today Sylvia and I went to The Shoe Company so she could replace some damaged footwear. Shopping for clothes bores me to tears, with an unfo...

Man of Steel won't even be released until 2013, but I've already devised a sequel pitch: call it Men of Steel and have Superman ...

I don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, I have yet to be moved by a Zack Snyder film. On the other hand, while I didn...

Earl's die-cast Kenner Millennium Falcon toy, from 1979. Still in great shape 33 years later!

Photo shot with the iPhone and edited with Aviary. "Up periscope!" ordered Captain T.O. Stubbing, commander of the H.M.C.S. A...

To celebrate Star Trek: The Next Generation 's 25th anniversary, here's a very short nonsensical story (or story fragment, really)...

I just realized - a few months late, admittedly - that my friend Susan has been a nurse for 20 years. This photo was taken at her graduati...

Apparently the producers of the next Star Trek film are having trouble coming up with a title . They can't call it Star Trek 2 because...

  Well, it's not the fanciest home theatre system in the world, but it is mine, and at long last I'm beginning to approach the se...

The Amazing Spider-Man is competently produced, edited and acted, with a straightforward plot and state of the art special effects. And yet...

On one of many family voyages up and down the Hanson Lake Road we stopped to visit Narrow Hills Provincial Park and Roundhill Tower, a fi...

In early May, I left my job at the Alberta Legislature . Fortunately I had little time to wallow in anxiety or sadness, for mere days late...

I shot this photo in 1981 at a popular tourist attraction, now closed. Can you guess the identity of this looming figure and the attractio...

Today's Mom's birthday! Here she is with her older sisters in 1945. Mom is the little one on the right. Aunt Jean is on her right,...

Many years ago, I shot this photo of my bicycle leaning against Mom and Dad's old Fargo in their garage. There's nothing particula...

A file called Initial Thoughts 011906 , found in the folder Earl's Writing/Bioware Contest : Plots Find the doodad Reunite t...

Back in the 90s, underemployed, isolated and bored, I spent a lot of my copious spare time photographing action figures in strange situati...