At a crossroads in my life on a number of issues, I was thinking today that getting older doesn’t necessarily coincide with getting wiser. How do you determine if you’re on the right track after years of pursuing, as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series author Douglas Adams aptly put it, the “ultimate answer to [...]

I’m not a fan of scary or spooky books, movies, television shows or even music, especially when the scary music is in a scary movie just prior to something scary happening. However, there was something about the television series The X-Files that had me hooked. Despite its often scary themes, and, let’s face it, spooky [...]

At 4:00 p.m today Christopher Paolini, authour of Eragon, announced live on his website that there will be a fourth book in the Inheritance “Trilogy”, which will now be called the Inheritance Cycle. He also announced there would be a suprise ending to the third book which will come out on September 23, 2008. He said [...]

We set off early so there wasn’t a line up when we got there, which was likely a bad thing. I could have used more time to prepare. We made our way through the corridor created by the ropes on each side of us under the watchful eyes of the man behind the makeshift counter at [...]

Darth Vader, everyone’s favourite villian, will be in Winnipeg this weekend for the Manitoba Comic Con and Sci-Fi Expo. David Prowse, the man behind the mask and under the suit of Darth Vader will be a “media guest” available for questions from the media between 10 and 2 p.m. today.  Anyone with tickets can also [...]