Teenaged me wasn’t very smart. “Hope I die before I get old.” ‘Never trust anyone over 30.” I’d not yet heard of the 27 Club, but if I had, I might have aspired to joining it, thus avoiding becoming untrustworthy.
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Roxanne Tellier – Aging and Changing
Posted in Opinion with tags Aging and Changing, benefits, Canada, Canada Health Act, Canada Pension Plan, caring, Concorde, creative, DBAWIS, empathic, Expo 67, Geodesic Dome, Golden Years, Great Depression, internet, learning, mindfulness, North America, Ontario Place, past, positive, segarini, Seniors, Social Media, Spanish Flu, Tellier on May 2, 2021 by segariniMUSIC IS DYING 2 – LIFE’S WHAT YOU MAKE IT by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags 1980s, B-level, Bob Segarini, Danny K, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, first gig, Great Depression, Harem Scarem, Haywire, Jaimie Vernon, Killer Dwarfs, live performer, lockdown, Moving Targetz, music, no compromise, Shakers, Spare Parts, Swindled, Syntha-Light Sound, The Swindle, Trooper on September 28, 2020 by segarini
The very first live gig I ever played was 40 years ago this month – September 19, 1980 – with a band called The Swindle (we’d switch drummers and become SWindleD a year later). We were a bunch of barely passable punk rockers from Scarborough who were too young to play clubs. What does one do when you’re underage and need to get your rock on?
Roxanne Tellier – Your Money or Your Life
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags ‘essential workers, cognitive dissonance, COVID 19, DBAWIS, gish gallop, Great Depression, Main Street. the stock market is NOT the economy, Morgan Freeman, segarini, Stockholm Syndrome, Tellier, Thomas Strentz, Universal Basic Income, Wall Street, your money or your life on May 10, 2020 by segarini
“2020 is a unique leap year,” surmised David Wessel, an economic researcher, on Twitter. “It has 29 days in February, 300 days in March and five years in April.”
Oh yes indeed – there’s been five years in April and May might age me another ten. Ain’t nobody having much fun anymore.
Roxanne Tellier – Sports, Armageddon, and Quincy Jones Oh My!
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags ' Quincy Jones - EGOTs (Emmy, Armageddon, Australia. Antarctic, Bob Segarini, Chicago, Count Basie, DBAWIS, Dinah Washington, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Sinatra. Las Vegas, Grammy, Great Depression, Greta Thunberg, Les Miserables, Lionel Hampton, lunk, Mercury Records, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Minnesota. Davos, Netflix . documentary about 'Q, North Korea. Middle East, Oscar, QUINCY, Ray Charles, Roxanne Tellier, Russia, Rutger Bregman, Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Sports, Superbowl, Tony, White House. INF on February 3, 2019 by segarini
It’s Superbowl Sunday! that day when two teams of very large men in very padded outfits will try to kill each other for funzies and a huge, gawdy ring.
I don’t watch sports – it’s just not my thing – but I do enjoy the half time shows, and the award winning advertisements that sponsors save up for this special day.
What’s a ‘lunk’?
Peter’s Politics
Posted in Opinion with tags "Marshall Plan", Bob Segarini, Camp David Accords, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Florida, Franklin Roosevelt, Great Depression, Harry Truman, Holiday Inn, Jimmy Carter, Lend-Lease, LGBTQ, New Deal, Ontario, Parkland, Peter Montreuil, U.S. Grant, Washington on April 12, 2018 by segarini
More years ago than I care to talk about, I was the president of a small plastic modelling club. We met on a regular basis and had a few displays throughout the year. My personal motto during that time was “A leader leads.”
For much of the 20th and 21st Centuries, the president of the United States has been the “de facto” leader of the Free World, a consensus builder, a calming influence. Previous American administrations have enacted legislation beneficial to great numbers of people. Some examples?
Roxanne Tellier – Where We Was, Where We Is, Where We’re Going
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Agrarian Society, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Great Depression, Great Recession, Industrial Revolution, Information Age, Post-Industrial Age, Roxanne Tellier, Tim Hortons, work ethic on January 8, 2018 by segarini
“Money – get back. I’m all right Jack. Keep your hands off my stack”
Inequality and economic distress – these are the biggest crisis’s our societies struggle with today.
It’s helpful to understand how we got here. We were conned, by some of the best conmen of all time. It took a concerted effort, and a lot of wrangling and wheeler dealing, but in a surprisingly quick and definitely hostile takeover, our 12,000 year old Agrarian Society was overthrown by a small group of people working hand in glove – the wealthy, the church, and the governments – who ushered in the Industrial Revolution somewhere around 1760.
Roxanne Tellier – Enjoy Every Sandwich
Posted in Opinion with tags Alberta, “NO! this is not what I want!, “The Wind, Best Contemporary Folk Album of 2003, BMW, Bob Segarini, chocolate, corned beef, David Letterman, DBAWIS, Enjoy every sandwich, Grammys, Great Depression, James Bond, last roundup, Mack truck, Nadia Comeneci, North Dakota, North-West Mounted Police, Roxanne Tellier, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Warren Zevon, world’s worst passenger on July 19, 2015 by segarini
Somehow, at some point, without even realizing it, I’ve slipped into the “enjoy every sandwich” part of my life.
Roxanne Tellier : The Magic of Don Harron
Posted in Opinion with tags Anne of Green Gables, Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, Canadian politics, Catherine McKinnon, Charlie Farquharson, Charlottetown Festival, DBAWIS, Don Harron, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Emily Carr, Gemini Award, Great Depression, Hee Haw, Morningside, Music Radio, Ontario, Order of Canada, Order of Ontario, Peter Gzowski, Quebec, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Spring Thaw, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The Bobcast, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, The Outer Limits, Toronto, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Yorkville on January 18, 2015 by segarini
Funny, the thoughts that go through your mind. You can be watching some mindless entertainment, giving your brain a free ride between weightier tasks like deciding whether to have a cigarette or cook dinner, when suddenly you think …Whatever happened to Charlie Farquharson?
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 