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 segariniRoxanne Tellier – Is That You, Rona?
Posted in Family, Food, life, Opinion with tags Amazon, artists, Basic Income, climate change, Coronavirus, COVID 19, creatives, creativity, DBAWIS, Food, Greatest Generation, internet, internet access, isolation, money, music, Musicians, Nature, Randy Rainbow, Rogers, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, social distance, social distancing, stock market, UberEats, United Nations, YouTube on March 22, 2020 by segarini
Funny, I always thought that I’d get so much more done. Whenever I felt like I just couldn’t keep up with all of the richness and offerings of modern life, I’d mutter to myself…
“If only time would stop – just for a day or two – and let me catch up on all of this watching, reading, and writing!”
So here it is, and guess what I’ve been doing? Lying on my bed, watching YouTube, playing games on the tablet, and spending quality time with the cats. Between naps.
I have 24 library books here to be read and used for the three major projects I’m working on, but I’ve not opened one of them. Instead I’m storming through my stack of paperback novels, the pulpier the better. Occasionally I feel guilty about not working on those weighty projects, but then I tell myself that I just can’t possibly start yet, not without that one other book that was on its way before the library so abruptly closed.
I keep busy, no question. And I spend a lot of time wondering if I’m sneezing because of allergies, or because of the coronavirus.
Roxanne Tellier – The Butterfly Effect
Posted in Movies, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Barack Obama, Bob Segarini, Butterfly Effect, chaos theory, DBAWIS, Edward Lorenz., Good Omens, Homeland Security, internet, John F. Kennedy, John Gribbin, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Roxanne Tellier, Terry Pratchett, The Sound of Thunder, Warren Commission on March 17, 2019 by segarini
I’m not sure if I’m blessed or cursed to have a fairly large amount of time in my life in which I can spend hours down the rabbit hole of the Internet, researching and following any thread that interests me.
I can spend days, even weeks, deep diving into all things esoteric and non. In an ideal world, I would live in a salon, where others of like minds would join me in this intellectual pursuit, and we would solve all of the mysteries of the universe.
Roxanne Tellier – We All Loved You, Frank Gutch Jr – Tributes, Tales, and Tears
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Adam Dawson, annabel (lee), Art, Astrid Guldenmann, Australia, Baby Boomers, bill jackson, blogging, bobby gottesman, Canadiana, Cargo, Chris Laterzo, Christian Anger, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Daisy House, Darrell Vickers, Dave Coker, David Graves, Davina Jackson, DBAWIS, Devon Sproule, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drew Gibson, elliott randall, Eric Rife, Eulogies for Frank Gutch Jr, Frank Gutch Jr., friendship, frustrated boomers, gary heffern, Green Monkey, Green Pyjamas, hannah gillespie, Howie Wahlen, Indie Artists, Indie Music, internet, Ireland, Jeff LeGore, Jen Morris, Jim Gratton, Jim Parrett, Johnny Hicks, Julian Taylor, Julie Cain, Justin Smith, Keith Morris, Ken Stringfellow, Kevin Casey, Kim Grant, Laurie Biagini, life, Little Lonely, loss, Mad Anthony, Mark Strong, Maurizio Michelino, Maxine Dunn, McKendree Spring, michael fennelly, Michael Marino, Mimi Schell, mourning, music, Musicians, No Depression, No Small Children, Notary Sojac, Old California, Oregon, Patricia Davis, Phoebe Bridgers, radio, Ray Brandes, Records, Rich Krueger, rich mcculley, Richard E Further Out, Ringo Jones, Roxanne Tellier, Rue Hazel, Ryan Collins, Salton Sea, Sam Taylor, segarini, Sheila Ellis, Space Opera, Stephen Marcus, Suzi Stark Brubaker, Sweet Home Oregon, Terry Varner, Thane Tierney, The Adventurist, The Bobcast, The Minnows, The Posies, The Real Shade, The Survivors, Thomas Shelton House, Toby Schwartz Demain, Tom Braam, Tom Dyer, tom kell, Tom Smith, Witherwolf, Writing on April 29, 2018 by segarini
Yesterday I went through all of the private messages I’d shared with Frank Gutch Jr, since I’d first encountered him. It was in 2013, just after I’d begun writing this weekly column, and right from that first message, it was as though we were separated at birth.
Roxanne Tellier – TO BOLDLY GO …
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, climate change, DBAWIS, future, human rights, internet, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Roxanne Tellier, Social Media, technology, Thintelligence on September 4, 2017 by segarini
Thintelligence: “The state of mind where a person does something without considering the consequences.” The idea may seem brilliant at first, but the after-affects usually prove to be deadly. This phrase was invented by Michael Crichton in his 1990 book Jurassic Park.
“They don’t have intelligence. They have what I call ‘thintelligence.’ They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and call it ‘being focused.’ They don’t see the surround. They don’t see the consequences.
Roxanne Tellier – Books, Music and Stuff!
Posted in Opinion with tags 1984., agoraphobic, Aldous Huxley, Bernie Taupin, bibliomaniac, Bob Segarini, book monster, Books, Brave New World, Craigslist, David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, e-books, Elton John, entertainment, freecycle, George Carlin, George Orwell, hoarder, internet, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leonard Cohen, library, Lolita, music, musician, Nabokov, organized, pack rats, Pagliacci, poet, Rammstein, Ray Bradbury, Roxanne Tellier, Smoky Robinson, Sophie’s Choice, Stephen King, Sting, stuff, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins and deadmau5 have all written about soma, The Strokes, Toronto on February 1, 2015 by segarini
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Since I’m effectively agoraphobic during winter, it seems like a good time to turn my attention to this mess around me that I’ve accumulated, and scan through the wee bits of paper on which I’ve written a germ of an idea, usually accompanied by an *asterisk* and several exclamation points!!! I just have to haul them out from under the weight of the newspaper clippings, flyers, magazines, library books and paper backs they’ve landed under, over and in between.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 