In 1965, Canada was well on its way to making inter-continental travel from sea-to-sea-to-sea a lot more enticing and convenient. The Trans-Canada Highway had linked the otherwise awkward and barely passable sections of Lake Superior in Ontario and the Rocky Mountains between Alberta and British Columbia. And so, my grandparents decided to take a little trek out of province to see that the world didn’t end in Port Arthur, Ontario (merely life as we know it).
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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 3: LOADED TO BEAR by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, British Columbia, Buick Invicta, chuck wagon, DBAWIS, Don Valley Parkway, Don't Believe a Word I Say, driving, GPS, Highway 12, Highway 400, Highway 401, Highway 48, Hogtown, Lake Superior, Luggage, Mapquest, Markham, Montreal, Ontario, Ottawa, Port Arthur, road map, Rocky Mountains, Segarini Jaimie Vernon, Toronto, Trans-Canada Highway, Vernons on July 13, 2020 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – CEMETERY COP 2 – Chapter 6 (excerpt)
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags burial, Canadian Music, Cemetery Cop, crematorium, crypts, DBAWIS, dead, death, Desert Storm, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Family, fences, funeral, Ghosts, GPS, grave yards, gravestones, Gulf War, hearse, iPad, iPhone, Jaimie Vernon, mausoleum, patrol car, Security Guard, segarini, superstition, vestry, visitation centre, wrought iron on December 3, 2016 by segarini
BILLY GOAT GRUFF
Billy was the security guard that trained me. I got to know him, not in person, but through his legend. When I worked, he was off, and vice versa, so we rarely ever crossed paths. Occasionally, he’d pop by on his day off to say hello to the staff, and would come around to see how I was doing. I was the newbie, and he wanted to make sure that a) the staff was treating me well, and b) that I wasn’t fucking anything up.
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JAIMIE VERNON – If You Don’t Know Me By Now
Posted in Opinion with tags Art, Batmobile, blindness, blood clots, Bob Segarini, cars, Comics, DBAWIS, deafness, disability, Don Garlits, Don't Believe a Word I Say, drawing, Fast & Furious, GIS, GPS, graphic design, Helldrivers, hips, Hot Rods, Jaimie Vernon, mapping, Molson Toronto Indy, Monster Jam, operation, satellites, sketching, Speedorama, Speedsport, Truckasaurus on June 15, 2013 by segarini
We hereby interrupt our regularly scheduled blog about me to talk about…me.
In my new day gig working in a train yard and shipping cars from here to — over there somewhere — I occasionally encounter cars that aren’t off a current assembly line but private cars being shipped by citizens for fun, profit and the rare felony dodge.
