I've received reports that some readers are having trouble accessing The Earliad, so in an effort to streamline the site I've remov...

Today Sylvia and I took a short day trip to Pigeon Lake to visit with the Pitts. Sylvia, as always more daring than me, sea-jacked Jeff...

I've long been amused by the interrobang , the unorthodox punctuation styled !? or ?!. The interrobang is used to express a combination...

Like any guy who grew up on a steady diet of cheesy 80s action films, I've long regretted that Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzen...

To Tarzan they were bones - just bones. He did not need them, for there was no meat left upon them, and they were not in his way, for he kn...

Now that I'm employed again, I'm having a hard time stopping myself from supporting various projects on Kickstarter , specifically ...

Here's another in a potentially numberless set of faux paintings by Earl J. "I'm-too-busy-to-write-anything-substantial-unti...

Some more "art." It may not be pretty, but each of these little experiments teaches me something about composition, lighting or...

Once again I've used Photoshop to transform an old photograph from the family archives into a faux painting. This time around I was a...

HOW did young Earl J. Woods find himself precariously posed next to this stately antique automobile? WHERE was this provocative image p...

Today I'm thinking of my friends in southern Alberta, who are struggling against a rising tide of floodwaters . Several years ago Syl...

When I posted my television checklist a couple of weeks ago, I inadvertently left out a few partially-completed shows, as I knew I would: ...

I've lost count of how many air shows I've attended, and we seem to have photos of all of them. Most of our family air show shots...

While scanning and retouching some of Mom and Dad's old photos, I came across what should have been a perfectly innocent Christmas sh...

Sometime in the early 1970s, before Sean was born, Mom and Dad took me on a vacation to British Columbia, probably to visit Aunt Jean and...

WARNING - SPOILERS for MAN OF STEEL Man of Steel doesn't quite live up to the promise of its thrilling trailers, but considering ...

When we lived in northern Manitoba camping served as our main leisure activity. But before we enjoyed the relative luxury of the camper t...

Like a lot of Stephen King fans, I prefer the man's earlier novels to his later works. Where books like Carrie , The Shining , The De...

...but...I'll...ignore the infraction...in this...case!

The Confederation spans the great continent of Zaiul, bordered to the north by the Principality of Stallisfair and to the south by Tyranus....

Sometime during the early 1970s, before my brother was born, Mom took me for a walk through the Leaf Rapids wilderness and shot the...

Sometime during my first year of study at the University of Alberta, during one of my regular trips to Greenwoods' on Whyte Avenue,...

While on my way to Bonnyville yesterday I spotted a Burger Baron as we passed by Lamont. I've always been fascinated by the Burger Ba...

Still capture of a climactic moment from Paranoid Productions' Generous Nature. "You animal! AAARULGGHLGGH" While Jeff ...