Man, it’s exhausting, living in 2020. If it ain’t the COVID, it’s the capricious and malicious capering of the Great Pumpkin/Dictator-in-Waiting, aka POTUS.
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Roxanne Tellier – I’m Afraid of Americans
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags CIA, climate change deniers, Covid, DBAWIS, End of Days, Glenn Kirshner. Obama, HandMaids, herd immunity, I’m Afraid of Americans, Merrick Garland, Michael Scrivener. Aunt Lydia, Potemkin Village, POTUS, RBG, Russia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schrodingers Mask, segarini, Soylent Green, Supreme Court, Tellier, the Rapture on September 27, 2020 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Notorious RBG and a Last Wish
Posted in Opinion, politics, Review with tags Affordable Care Act, Alito, Attorney General William Barr, Benedict Arnold, Brown v Board of Education, DBAWIS, Electoral College, Gorsuch, herd immunity, Kavanaugh, LGBTQ, Louis Dejoy, Mitch McConnell, Notorious RBG, Roberts, Roe v Wade, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme Court, segarini, segregation, Tellier, the handicapped on September 20, 2020 by segarini
I was preparing dinner in the kitchen on Friday night, when Shawn came into the room and said, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.”
Roxanne Tellier – Return to Innocence Lost
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags active duty military, Afghan, annus horribilis. COVID-19, Bob Woodward, Chief Justice John Roberts, Commander in Chief, criminal negligence, DBAWIS, Election Night, Erdogan, Jamal Khashoggi, Kim Jung Un, Kurds, losers, Michael Cohen, Monkees, Nixon, Peter Pan, POTUS, Putin, Return to Innocence Lost, Roxanne Tellier, Russia, Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, segarini, suckers, Supreme Court, Watergate, White House, Winston Churchill on September 13, 2020 by segarini
“There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.”
Ain’t it the truth! Hey, Hi! It’s me, back from what seems like the hiatus that lasted an eternity.
Not that I’m complaining… no siree! I have been BUSY, my darlings … busier than a <fill in your corny but slightly amusing blank here.> Hellzapoppin’, dontcha know, and we’re careening sans seatbelts to what I expect to be a fiery finish to the apogee of the annus horribilis known as 2020.
Roxanne Tellier – God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics with tags 19, Canada, Covid, Darwin Awards, DBAWIS, denial, economy, God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise, Great Toilet Paper Wars, kids, plague, Roxanne Tellier, schools, Second Wave, segarini, students on August 9, 2020 by segarini
We at DBAWIS will be on hiatus from this afternoon, when this column drops, until we return on Monday, September 11th. (Editor’s Note – I will be reprinting a column on Monday because it is relevant more today than ever).
That’s quite a while, in these troubled times. Kind of makes you wonder how different our world will look by then. After all, it’s certainly seemed like every day for the last few years has been an endless, nauseating, roller coaster ride. Fires, floods, droughts, plagues, economic turmoil, murder hornets – kind of frightening to think what might be next.
Roxanne Tellier – Dear Old COVID School Days
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics with tags Boris Johnson, bullied, bully, Conservative, DBAWIS, Dear Old Covid School days, death cult, Dr Anthony Fauci, Golden Calf, helicopter parents, Jared Kushner, Jim Jones, Republican, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, toilet swirlie, Truman Show, Vanity Fair on August 2, 2020 by segarini
When you’re a kid that is being bullied, the only thing you can really do is wait for the day that the bully graduates and finally leaves you alone.
Roxanne Tellier – Everybody Hurts
Posted in Family, Health, life, Opinion with tags Andy Capp. suicide, Anhedonia, anxiety, Black Dog, childhood trauma, DBAWIS, Depression, Everybody hurts, hopeful future, Joe Btfsplk, Johann Hari, kindness, Lost Connections, meaningful values, meaningful work, mental health. chemical imbalance, Nature, others, segarini, stable future, status, Tellier on July 26, 2020 by segarini
Like many, I’ve suffered from depression and anxiety since I was a young child. Poor old Joe Btfsplk, the Al Capp ‘Lil Abner’ character who lived under a cloud at all times, had nothing on me. I had an ulcer by the time I was ten years old, and toyed with the idea of suicide throughout my teens.
Roxanne Tellier – No Sex Please We’re Plaguish
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bumble, COVID 19, DBAWIS, erectile dysfunction, Grindr, Happn, herpes, Hinge, HIV/AIDS, Leisure Suit Larry, libido, masturbation, Pornhub, segarini, senior hour, sex, swipe right, Tamagotchi, Tellier, Tinder on July 19, 2020 by segarini
Sum-sum-summertime! Toronto is in the middle of what seems like an unending heatwave. (And was that a tornado that just whizzed through my neighbourhood?)
But, to be honest, I don’t mind the heat that much. I’m already staying inside most of the time, except to feed the critters, water the plants, and hit the ‘senior hour’ at the grocery store, because that’s where all the cool kids hang out.
Roxanne Tellier – Summer of Songs Redux
Posted in life, music, Opinion, Review with tags A&W, Annette Funicello, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Boys, Belmont Park, Billy Stewart, Canada, Centreville, CFOX, Chicago, CHOM FM, Crescent Street, Dairy Queen, David Lee Roth, DBAWIS, Dean Hagopian, Doug Pringle, Echo Beach, Expos, Hanlan’s Point, Jarry Park, Jesse Winchester, Katy Perry, Loving Spoonful, Maple Leaf, Mark Bolan, Martha and the Vandellas, Martha David, Montreal, Munich Olympics, Nelly, Olympic Village, Orange Julep, Roger Scott, Roxanne Tellier, Sand Dunes, s’mores, Seals and Croft, segarini, summer, Summer Blonde, Summer of Song, The Bangles, The Cowsills, The Go Gos, The Kinks, The Motels, The Tragically Hip, The Who, Watergate Scandal, Wild Mouse on July 12, 2020 by segarini
I’ve been overwhelmed, recently, with the events swirling around us. It’s too much. And today, although I had planned a look into trump and Ford’s plans to re-open schools this fall, I’m gonna take a pass, and a day off. Instead of current affairs, let’s enjoy the summer sun, and take a stroll down Memory Lane, to this slightly edited column that I first wrote in August of 2015.
How very different things look now, from the perspective of 2020, and this time of plague! Seems almost naughty to see people gathered together, without masks or social distancing! And I’m not sure if any of the places I mentioned then, are open now. Never mind… Take my hand, come along with me on the wayback machine, and forget about today for a while ….
Roxanne Tellier – Pande-Malaise
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags ‘think positively’, Bird Box, CandyMan., climate change, COVID 19, DBAWIS, Enough already, Feckless Leader, free publicity., Kanye West, Michael Scrivener, Pande-Malaise, Premier Ford, privilege, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, White House on July 5, 2020 by segarini
Got an email from a friend the other day, headed “Enough already!” Like so many of us – especially we older folks – she’s sick and tired of being locked down, exasperated with the conflicting information we’ve received, really scared of leaving her home unless it’s absolutely necessary, and furious with the scoffers who put her health in danger with their refusal to wear a mask.
It’s Birthday Week for Hat and Pants! – The Canarican
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Review with tags America's Hat, Canada, Canada Day, Canada's Pants, Cherry Cola's, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Independence Day, segarini, The 4th of July 2019, The USA, Toronto on July 1, 2020 by segarini
I am a Proud Canarican …or at least I will be again once President Flubber and His Band of Lost Socks are incarcerated or incinerated (choose one), and Adults are back running our Pants.
To celebrate, I offer up this heavily researched, thoroughly accurate FAQ sheet listing the differences between Our Great Land, and Our Once Great Pants.
Most of the following was originally posted in 2015, when the world was a different place. There was cleaner air, prettier sunsets, better television reception, and more than enough Gummy Bears. All of that changed after the advent of the Man Bun and Robot Bingo Callers. No…wait…that was a dream I had after a night of fish tacos and Metaxa.
Never mind….
Unlike the Man Without a Country, I am a man with TWO countries. The Country of my birth, the United States of America, and the Country I choose to live in and love with all my heart, Canada.
