My son’s been kicking back and chilling this summer having finished Grade 12. He didn’t want to start a post-secondary education until he could get his bearings, find a job, make some money and attack it without being tens of thousands of dollars in debt at the starting line. Currently, he’s enjoying hanging out with his friends before everyone scatters to the four winds in September. They decided this week to play paintball. The best facility in Toronto is Sgt. Splatter’s near Dufferin & Eglinton.
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JAIMIE VERNON – YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags AMC, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Cartier, City of Scarborough, computers, DBAWIS, Dick Tracy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Downtown, Fashion Mall, Heroes, Hiro, IBM, Jaimie Vernon, Mad Men, paintball, Seiko, Seiko 2000, Seiko T-001, Seiko Time, Selectric, Sgt. Splatter, TTC, typewriter. Apple Watch, typist, Wingold, wiring harnesses, wristwatch, Xerox, Yurko on August 6, 2016 by segariniSegarini: Mad Men, Elton Rohn, and Your Mail
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elton Rohn, Mad Men, music, Netflix, Reader's Mail, segarini, Television, Toronto on April 29, 2016 by segarini
Here’s a slightly edited rerun of one of the first columns I wrote here. This is from March of 2011. My regular column will run on Monday. Been a hell of a week…and PLEASE start commenting again in the “Reply” section down below. I would love to start printing your mail like we used to back in the day….
Like I mentioned last week, we signed up for the free month of Netflix and started trolling their content. Well, if you believe the haters out there, there wasn’t supposed to be anything here except episodes of TV shows nobody watched and movies like “Roller Disco Beach Party”, The President’s Neck is Missing”, and “Too Many Grandmas”. Nothing could be further from the truth. I got to sit through a perfect copy of “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, totally thrilled with the awesomeness of the Hong Kong Cavaliers, a very young Jeff Goldblum (who is still playing himself in every movie he makes) and some of the greatest scene chewing ever done by the delightful John Lithgow. Also…who wouldn’t love a character named Perfect Tommy? Then I discovered that Netflix has the first three seasons of Mad Men…
JAIMIE VERNON – THE EVOLUTION WILL NO LONGER BE TELEVISED
Posted in Opinion with tags All In The Family, Batman, Bewitched, Big Bang Theory, Bob Segarini, Breaking Bad, Canadian Music, Castle, Continuum, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Game of Thrones, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Hockey Night In Canada, Jaimie Vernon, Love American Style, Love Boat, Mad Men, Mary Tyler Moore, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, Party Game, Rocket Robin Hood, Rocket Ship 7, Sanford & Sons, Saving Hope, Scooby-Doo, Starsky & Hutch, Streets of San Francisco, Television, The Addams Family, The Brady Bunch, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Roast, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Flintstones, The Graham Norton Show, The Hudson Brothers' Razzle Dazzle Show, The Monkees, The Munsters, The Sopranos, The Trouble With Tracy, The Walking Dead, The Wonderful World of Disney, TV on June 22, 2013 by segarini
This week the Rock Goddess and I made the decision to dump our TV cable subscription. Since work on my Encyclopedias began in earnest in the summer of 2011 I’ve spent less time in front of the Boob Tube and almost all 
my time online – Facebook, YouTube, etc. It’s an issue of time, really. Following the release of my books I’ve been (mostly) employed and fully engaged in putting food on the table and falling asleep – often while waiting for the food to come to the table. Similarly, the Rock Goddess.
Justin Smallbridge: Radio Redux
Posted in Opinion with tags CFTR, CHUM, Dan Ingram, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Justin Smallbridge, KHJ, Legends of Radio, Mad Men, Music Radio, P.A.M.S, radio, Rewound Radio, Rick Allen, WABC on April 15, 2013 by segarini
Mad Men is back, which is great. In addition to the multilayered work of Matthew Weiner and his cohorts on the series, the accompanying history and popular culture are concomitant joys of that show; it’s fun to work out when a particular episode is set and run down the attendant details. Season 6’s opener, “The Doorway,” happens at the end of December, 1967. “Hey,” some folks said, “What about the Summer Of Love”? Having Season 5 end before it started and Season 6 starting after it was over was a deliberate choice Matthew Weiner made, and it’s not tough to see why. The Summer Of Love happened in San Francisco — miles away, both geographically and psychically, from Manhattan, Rye NY and Madison Avenue specifically. Weiner said his specific reasoning for that choice was that the come-down and “hangover” offered a richer range of dramatic possibilities than the groovalicious summer months of 1967.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 