People are funny; they want their lives to be interesting and noteworthy, but most of us are good for
about 24 hours of novelty before we’re pining for ‘the good old days.’
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Roxanne Tellier – What’s Normal Anyway?
Posted in COVID 19, Family, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, normal, Roxanne Tellier, segarini on March 27, 2022 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Into the Home Stretch
Posted in COVID 19, Family, life, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Big Pause, Canada, COVID-19, DBAWIS, Devil’s Advocates, Fourth Wave, Grossmans, Happy Pals, lockdown, Motown, NIMBY, normal, public health crisis, Roxanne Tellier, schoolkids, segarini, Summer Blonde, the home stretch, Tommy Roe on August 1, 2021 by segariniOkay – who stole July? It was just here a minute ago! In truth, I barely recognized it, under all that rain, but I know I saw it!
Continue readingNOTHING WAS EVER NORMAL by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in COVID 19, music, Opinion, politics, Review with tags and The Lion King: The Musical, banks, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ford Econoline, Hockey Night In Canada, Idiots, IKEA, Jaimie Vernon, Les Paul, marching, music, Musicians, normal, pandemic, PSWs, real job, Schitt’s Creek, songs, songwriters, The Rolling Stones, Toronto, unemployment, Zeppelin on October 19, 2020 by segarini
This week, in Ontario, the government decided to put the brakes on their re-integration plan to have us return to normal because the pandemic has decided to return for a victory lap. They shut down public spaces and gathering places like bars and restaurants because despite being told not to act like selfish jackasses scoring hookers and turning their livers in alcohol-filled swimming pools on the last night before their wedding day, idiots be idioting. Couple that with people marching in parades demanding that they have the right to be jackasses and endangering the health of everyone else and it seems our dear leaders had no choice.
Roxanne Tellier – The Long Road From Normal
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amy Siskind, Big Brother. Justin Trudeau, Bill C51, Canada, Celebrity Apprentice, computers, Congress, CPAC, Daniel Dale, DBAWIS, Dear Leader, Harper, Jared Kushner, Keith Olbermann, Kim Jong Un, Michael Cohen, national emergency, New York Times, normal, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, Robert Mueller, Russia, segarini, Tellier, The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, The Resistance, Trump on March 3, 2019 by segarini
A long, long time ago, I used to play chess. Not very well, to be honest; I was probably a better backgammon player if anything. Or maybe I wasn’t all that great at either.
Roxanne Tellier – The Kids Are Alright
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Baby Boomers, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Gen X, Grand Guignol, Justice, normal, normalization of social instability, Roxanne Tellier, Russia, The Kids are Alright, to slash and burn capitalism on March 4, 2018 by segarini
My kids are Gen Xers, the ‘middle child’ of generations. Praise the lawd and hope the creek don’t rise, they’re safely ensconced in solid careers. They’re good people, with good hearts and a firm grasp of reality, if at times, perhaps a little jaded from growing up in this society and as our kids.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 