We picked up our Forever Canada and No to the Nine signs today. Thanks to the volunteers who've been out and about creating the pickup o...

  "CAPTAIN'S LOG, Stardate 2991.3. The Federation is working to open diplomatic relations with the world-spanning matriarchal socie...

A stick in the abyss In the middle of our street A pit within our midst The riddle we must meet Gaping like a wound Festering and dark A haz...

Steve Shives, one of my favourite YouTubers, posted an editorial today about how the end of the Cold War took away Star Trek 's central...

Someone made this by burying a styrofoam ball in sand, digging a hole, and then pouring molten lead into the hole, dissolving the styrofoam ...

Sometime during the 1970s, a representative of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting in Flin Flon gave Mom and Dad two 99.99% pure zinc ingots. COM...

Sometimes customers from the Ruttan Mine would bring Mom and Dad interesting little keepsakes, like this serpentine core. It's smooth an...

This carving belonged to Mom and Dad, and as far as I can recall they obtained it sometime in the 1970s; at least, I remember it being aroun...

Idea: A new version of Ragtime, but it's about a disaster that requires everyone on Earth to pull together and create billions of rags, ...

I'm going ape for my new movie shelves.   

I have now obtained all of John Carpenter's films. (Not pictured: Dark Star and Elvis , which are on the shelf above.) They're disp...

Back in 2006, when I worked for the Official Opposition--made of Alberta Liberal MLAs at the time--I was part of the communications team res...

Alberta's unnecessary referendumb is coming up soon, so be sure you're registered to vote in Alberta--there are scattered reports of...

Hard to believe it's been almost a decade and a half since Sylvia and I saw the Grand Canyon. I'm so glad we went before...well.   

The folks at Know the Nine have articulated why those of us who care about other people should vote to remain in Canada and then vote no to...

  Do you mock me, sir?  A few days ago, I completed a major reorganization of our theatre room. Yesterday, not content with my work, I set a...

I've been spending my staycation decluttering, expanding the shelving space in the the theatre room, hanging art, and just generally try...

It's our 19th anniversary! No exotic destination this year--we watched half a bad movie, but that experience was mitigated by a very goo...

  Bruce would have been great in a Blob sequel or remake. But then, he's great in everything. 

 

My anthipathy for the boring beige houses that seem to be the default in Edmonton intensified when Sylvia and I visited St. John's. I wi...

In 2019, Mom accompanied Aunt Jean and Uncle John on what would ultimately be her last trip to Manitoba. I can't ask her now, so I don...

Many years ago, I wrote the following bad poem:  My Eyes Bleed Coke My eyes bleed Coke My bread doth me choke My gums fairly smoke I’m about...