If you have recently gone from having a little trouble getting into your skinny jeans, to contemplating buying your whole new summer wardrobe from Omar the Tentmaker, you may have fallen prey to that other pandemic within the pandemic known as “The Pandemic 15,” fifteen pounds being the median amount of weight that many of us have piled on in the last year.
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Our Fearless Leader has been known to encourage my love of champagne and taste for a Bloody Caesar..neither of which I normally drink, as they go right to my head. Next thing you know, I’m earnestly telling some hapless artist that I’d be delighted to pose nude, just as soon as I lose twenty pounds and reverse twenty years of living.
Dang! It always happens … I’m all gung ho about something I want to write about, and I get some of the research done, and then … life intervenes. Or, more accurately, social media. I’m looking at you, Facebook!
I had another blog prepared and ready to roll today about my favourite topic, music, but in light of the last 72 hours of clown car antics from the family of my city’s mayor, Rob Ford, I couldn’t let it go without comment.
I realized as I sat down to write this column that I’d written two very serious columns back to back. I’m not a very serious person, or at least I try very hard not to be, so, frankly, I figured it was time to tackle a far more inane subject, one that’s near and dear to all of our hearts: Reality Television! I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I’d had a brief brush with that television phenomenon that is sweeping the globe. I won’t go into specifics about the show I did, mostly because it’s kind of embarrassing, but also because if you really want to watch it, it’s not that difficult to find and you, my lovely readers, are surely up to the challenge if your urge to see it is so great.
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Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 