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...

Three wee tykes In fields at play They made their pitch for lives ahead Dreams in clover, dare to tread Where are they now? No one can say P...

Ba, ba--bum ba ba Pum pum ba ba bum ba ba Lum de dum ba pum pum pum ba, ba--bum ba ba  

15,000 years ago Hungry Natufians Mashed grain and water to make dough For family and friends Set fire to stone and made it glow Cooked that...

Man and horse A symbiosis  Animal husbandry's Ultimate gnosis Strong back, fleet hooves Domestication Foundations of the horse-drawn nat...

Sylvia and I came home after today's brief storm to find several tree branches on our driveway.   

Mom would have been 84 today. Here she is with Dad, on the road to Leaf Rapids in 1974.   

  From 1960 to 1962, Boris Karloff hosted Thriller, an anthology of suspense and horror stories. Midway through the first season, early in 1...

A friend of mine came back to work today after the recent loss of her mother, and we chatted for a bit before I realized that today is July ...

When for beauty do thee search Look no further than the birch; Gaze upon it and you'll see A thin-leaved, deciduous hardwood tree Sure t...

That might be my grandmother on the right...or one of her sisters.