Back in high school I'd often finish off a roll of film by taking long exposures of traffic at night. Since these squiggles of light w...

It's Dad's birthday! Here he is back in 1966 on a trip through the United States, blending in with the Americans by donning a whit...

Back when Sylvia and I first started dating she introduced me to The Shield , a cop drama with a twist: rather than follow the exploits of t...

Snap a photograph with a traditional film camera, fail to advance the roll and snap again, and you'll wind up with a double exposure. ...

Mom or Dad took this photo of a Fargo (and presumably one of my relatives) sometime in the mid to late 1960s. I cropped the original for b...

The town with a motto that Biggars the imagination!

ABC broadcast the last episode of Last Resort last night, and as I predicted back in May , it lasted a mere half-season. Last night's f...

If you push the button, a bell rings and a sonorous voice intones "Nevermore." Yes, it's very silly.

Here I am posing in front of the world's largest oil can in my dad's birthplace, Rocanville , Saskatchewan, sometime in 1981. For ...

Hard to believe that Charles Schulz was only a little over halfway through his 50-year run on Peanuts when the strip pictured here ran so...

No sooner do I post about Kelowna's Bedrock City do I discover another set of photos from the same trip, taken by Dad. And look, I...

Sometime in the early 1980s, the Woods family travelled to Kelowna, British Columbia to visit Aunt Jean and Uncle John. While there we vis...

This may be one of those "you had to be there" moments, but last night , as Sean and Jeremiah and I played Power Grid , Jeremiah...

  Tonight Pitts the Elder and Woods the Elder faced Pitts the Younger and Woods the Younger in a rousing match of Last Night on Earth. Th...

One of the things I love about my friend Tony is his complete lack of inhibitions. Back in the early 90s Tony seemed to be riding a consta...

Roadside Attraction I race along the highway and the old wrecks meander past my windows I long to stop and push the rotting door open, t...

Here is my great-grandfather, Robert Stone Woods (1857-1939), probably taken in Rocanville, Saskatchewan, sometime in the late 1920s or ea...

On our way to or from Expo '86, the Woods family camped at a truly lovely spot somewhere in British Columbia, or at least that's w...

I'm fascinated by the tropes and formulas of dramatic television. Played straight, they can codify important values and principles - do ...

I can scarce believe it myself, but in a little over a month My Name is Earl (J. Woods) , formerly known as The Bleak House of Blahgs , will...

Look at all the wonderful geometry in this photograph of my father, shot by Mom on their trip through the western United States. I love ho...

You find the strangest things when you dig through the family photo archives. Here I'm at a cousin's wedding in Winnipeg, and whoe...

I've noted previously my fascination with drugstore cropping of negatives. On the left we have a restored image of the then-new Edmont...

O'BRIEN: Think of it as a combination of Ender's Game and The Last Starfighter , sir.  SISKO: I'm afraid I don't get t...