This whole COVID thing is getting long, tiring, confusing and extremely exasperating for most of us. People start to rebel like children in a sandbox who don’t play fair. They confront each other in anger like the bully in the schoolyard. In many instances we seem to live in a rather thoughtless society whose three favourite people seem to be me, myself and I. It doesn’t seem to matter what part of this mudball we inhabit, everyone is infected…..not by the virus, but by fear, bad attitude, frustration, annoyance, (add your own descriptive here). Information, misinformation, ignorance, conspiracy theories, protests and riots, the numbers are over/under inflated/aren’t real….the list goes on. It doesn’t really matter what you believe, it’s affecting all of us. COVID fatigue is real and should have been considered by minds much greater than mine, long before now.
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Pat Blythe – Christmas lockdown…..other stuff and music
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, CDC, Covid, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Diane Brisbois, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Ford, lockdown, lockdown Peel, lockdown Toronto, luvthemusic, New York Times, non-essential, Ontario, Pat Blythe, Paul Magdar, Retail Council of Canada, Trudeau, Yahoo Finance on November 25, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – King of the World Ma! As the
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Church Lady. Sean Conley, Covid, DBAWIS, King of the World, Pin the Tail on the Infected, Schrodinger’s Election, segarini, SuperSpreader, Supreme Court, Tellier, The Hill, USA Today on October 11, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – I’m Afraid of Americans
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags CIA, climate change deniers, Covid, DBAWIS, End of Days, Glenn Kirshner. Obama, HandMaids, herd immunity, I’m Afraid of Americans, Merrick Garland, Michael Scrivener. Aunt Lydia, Potemkin Village, POTUS, RBG, Russia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schrodingers Mask, segarini, Soylent Green, Supreme Court, Tellier, the Rapture on September 27, 2020 by segariniMan, it’s exhausting, living in 2020. If it ain’t the COVID, it’s the capricious and malicious capering of the Great Pumpkin/Dictator-in-Waiting, aka POTUS.
Pat Blythe – Ageism….agism…..aging…..and music
Posted in Family, Health, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Ageism, aging, Bob Segarini, Covid, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, growing old, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera on September 23, 2020 by segariniLast week music. This week a new topic. No…..not COVID. There’s enough written about that already and it’s a subject I’m starting to grow weary of. We’re in the middle of a worldwide “situation” that requires diligence, clean hands, keeping a distance of 6.5 feet (when did two metres becomes six feet…..that’s a fail in math class?!) and a disguise when showing your face (or 1/3 of it) in public.
Roxanne Tellier – God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics with tags 19, Canada, Covid, Darwin Awards, DBAWIS, denial, economy, God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise, Great Toilet Paper Wars, kids, plague, Roxanne Tellier, schools, Second Wave, segarini, students on August 9, 2020 by segariniWe at DBAWIS will be on hiatus from this afternoon, when this column drops, until we return on Monday, September 11th. (Editor’s Note – I will be reprinting a column on Monday because it is relevant more today than ever).
That’s quite a while, in these troubled times. Kind of makes you wonder how different our world will look by then. After all, it’s certainly seemed like every day for the last few years has been an endless, nauseating, roller coaster ride. Fires, floods, droughts, plagues, economic turmoil, murder hornets – kind of frightening to think what might be next.
Pat Blythe – The year the music died…..the pandemic interviews…..and music
Posted in COVID 19, Interview, life, music, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Covid, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, podcast on July 22, 2020 by segariniTuesday, July 21…..the column writing begins. I sit here staring at four walls desperately missing the music, the people, the clubs and the noise. At least four nights a week I was out prowling the various music venues in the GTA, Hamilton, even London until the wee hours of the morning. The music was always happening somewhere. Now it’s eerily quiet. Yes, there are a few outdoor shows scattered about. Suzi Kory produced and presented her first hugely successful drive-in country music festival called “Love Revolution” in Cavan, Ontario. Country artists Joe McCaughley, Colin Amey, The Housecall, Bree Taylor, Nicole Rayy, Alessia Cohle, Brian John Harwood, MacKenzie Leigh Myer and of course Kory herself all performed. Where was I? In Hamilton and St. Catharines on other business. Damn!!!
Love Revolution also happens to be the name of Kory’s latest release, and a timely one it is. Give it a listen below in the “music section”.
Pat Blythe – This is not about COVID……and music
Posted in life, music, Opinion, Review with tags AIDS, Brian May, Christopher Blythe The Picture Taker, Covid, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drew Winters, Drop Top Alibi, Frank Gutch Jr., Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, HIV, Jimi Bertucci, John Deacon, Jonathan Holowell, Julian Taylor, Kelsi Mayne, King Chino, Len Mizzoni, Leon Harrison, Lily Frost, Live Is All You Need, Maple Leaf Gardens, Mariposa, Mariposa Folk Festival, Mariposa Folk Foundation, Nicole Rayy, Pat Blythe, Pat Blythe A Girl With A Camera, Queen, Ricardo Walker, Rob Christian, Roger Taylor, Sarah Smith, Shawn Brady, Suzi Kory, The Hideout Toronto, The Shore Leave on April 22, 2020 by segariniThis column is usually about the clubs, the music, the bands, the nightlife and the denizens of Toronto who haunt those places. The clubs are shuttered, the live music has stopped, bands are silent and the nightlife…..well there isn’t any. Yes musicians (solo or otherwise) are busy streaming on any platform possible. Artists from the around the world record themselves in isolation and then join together via video to perform, Brady Bunch style. All around the world people are trying to keep everyone’s spirits up as we sit, isolated in our homes, many alone, having had no physical human contact in almost three months.