For some, the issue of which is the better television series is of the utmost importance. I like both equally, and, they are actually two di...

Many years ago my roommate at the time and I decided to have some fun: we recorded a message for answering machine which could be best descr...

Tonight while looking for 'history' videos to watch on YouTube, I stumbled upon the above hour-long program. First broadcast by PBS ...

Canadian actor and author William Shatner is, quite simply, the coolest man in this galaxy. Happy Birthday to a fellow Montrealer.

Some images take us way back. The photo above, which I grabbed from Wikipedia, flew me to my "brat" youth. The Lockheed C-130 ...

click to enlarge This ol' Trekker saw a tweet minutes ago by designer Michael Okuda. He noted that it was sixty years ago today that Gen...

"We can identify a 'Canadian constitutional model.' Our Constitution is the envy of the world and Canadians have been involved ...

Last year I read Michael Coren's 2021 book The Rebel Christ , and I was impressed to the point where I felt compelled to commit my feeli...

UFO - Original Television Soundtrack - Music by Barry Gray Silva Screen Records 2019 *** On Tuesday nights during the 1970/71 television sea...

And what a flag it is! On February 15th, 1965, the "National Flag of Canada" was inaugurated in a ceremony on Parliament Hill in O...

  Recently I had a discussion with one of my clients, a lovely lady from the Philippines. When I mentioned (mentioned, yes) that I love Fili...

Dreaming Aloud - The Life and Films of James Cameron - by Christopher Heard Doubleday Canada Limited 1997 *** A few years ago a friend of mi...

Today: 6 Celsius (43 Fahrenheit) Tomorrow: 12 (54) Saturday: 8 (46) Now: scary

This past Sunday, I asked two questions:  Two Classic Books Need to Be Revisited It's been a long time since I first read Jules Verne...

From a book I first read in elementary school, its first sentence.... "The year 1866 was marked by a strange event, an unexplainable oc...

Bobby asked nicely: “Are you done?” All according to plan. Worn work boots dangled fresh laces a metre in front of a slab of meat and bone h...

October 19, 2015 (the dispatched: Stephen Harper) October 21, 2019 (the dispatched: Andrew Scheer) October 20, 2021 (the dispatched: Erin O...

The Lines are out of Raster The Raster is out of Lines Is gone the picture tube information in pictures might reassemble someplace ec...

Star Trek - Phase II ― The Lost Series ― by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Pocket Books 1997 *** There was an almost-filmed  Star Trek I...