With apologies to Al Franken, I am utterly sick of Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them. Sick to death of the posturing, the gaslighting, the sneaky grins that escape their mouths when they think we can’t see them.
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Roxanne Tellier – Stop LYING To ME!
Posted in Books, COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Amazon, America, Apple, Big Lie, Bob Lefsetz, Canada, Civil War, Covid, DBAWIS, Democratic, Donald Trump, Facebook, gaslighting, GoFundMe, GOP, Instagram, January 6th, Journalism, lefsetz.com, Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, Mark Zuckerberg, media, NATO, Ottawa, Putin, Roxanne Tellier, Russian, segarini, Social Media, Spotify, Supreme Court Justice, TikTok, Ukraine, YouTube on January 30, 2022 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – Is Halloween the New Christmas?
Posted in Art, COVID 19, life, Opinion, Review with tags All Hallows Eve, Big Business, Big Money, Christmas, Covid Halloween, DBAWIS, Facebook, Halloween, Instagram, Jack o Lantern, low-obligation, pumpkins, segarini, self-expression, Social Media, Tellier, trick-or-treating on October 31, 2021 by segariniI’m trying to remember the last time I went trick-or-treating as a child. It was in Montreal, and might have been when we lived in Park Ex, which was, back then, really not a place that was safe for a young’un to be out alone late, and especially not to be traipsing around in the dark.
But hey – free candy! Sometimes pennies! Maybe even a free razor blade! Or was that just an urban myth?
Continue reading →Roxanne Tellier – The Long Strange Trip Continues
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review, Work with tags Beatles, Biden, Cell Phones, DBAWIS, Ed Sullivan, essential workers, Facebook, Generation Gap, gig economy, Haitians, inequality, Long Strange Trip, MAGA, Michael Nesmith, minimum wage, pandemic, partisan, Republican Party, same sex marriage, school, segarini, Side Hustle, Social Media, Tellier, Trump, Uber, YouTube on September 26, 2021 by segariniIf you had told me, twenty years ago, that this last decade would be one of the most terrifying/interesting/instructive/growth inducing periods of my entire life to date, I’d have laughed uproariously, and then kicked you out of the room.
Continue reading →Roxanne Tellier – A Voting We Will Go
Posted in COVID 19, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags civic duty, Cold Turkey, COVID-19, DBAWIS, democracy, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Election, Elections Canada, neutrality, No Mask, No Vote, political junkies, segarini, Social Media, Tellier, voters, Voting on September 19, 2021 by segariniELECTIONS! Whether we want them or not!
But first ….
FACEBOOK! If you’ve been following my Facebook antics – or lack thereof, as I have sat banished and abandoned in Facebook solitary for the better part of the last six months – I am happy to report that I have been allowed to return to the site. Well, for the moment, anyway. I’m already getting warnings for doing really horrible things like posting links to how to determine if you might be addicted to social media.
Continue reading →Roxanne Tellier – Smile Damnit. Smile!
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics with tags Baby Boomers, climate change, COVID-19, DBAWIS, Facebook, Fake News, global pandemic, Maya Angelou, Powers That Be, segarini, Smile, Social Media, Tellier, Wonderful World on July 11, 2021 by segariniTo be honest, I haven’t much enjoyed the last five years or so. I’m not just talking about politics, though, if there was ever a time in which it became apparent how much politics affects every aspect of our every day lives, this was that time.
Continue reading →Roxanne Tellier – Up With Pride!
Posted in Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Alan Turing. punishable by death. life imprisonment, Baby Boomers, DBAWIS, discriminate, eating disorders, gender identity, heterosexual, LGBTQ, military, misogynist, President Biden, Pride Month!, public displays of affection, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, sex, Social Media, transgender on June 13, 2021 by segariniIn the 50s and 60s, most of the gendered role models for kids were caricatures, physical and psychological distortions of what a ‘real man’ or a ‘real woman’ should look like, and how they should behave.
Continue reading →Roxanne Tellier – Straight Outta Facebook Jail
Posted in COVID 19, Humour, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Anne J Gibson, Big Tech, Bill King, Capitol riot, Congress, DBAWIS, Democrats, Disney+, Donald Trump, Facebook Felon, Instagram, Jack Dorsey, January 6th, Joe Biden, legal immunity, liability, Liker.com, Oversight Board, Parler, photographer, Randy Rainbow, Republicans, Ron DeSantis, Section 230, segarini, Social Media, Straight Outta Facebook Jail, sunk costs, TechFreedom, TedTalks, Tellier, The Sorry Girls, TikTok, Twitter, two-year suspension, unconstitutional, YouTube, Zuckerberg on June 6, 2021 by segariniI’m happy to report that the rumours of my death were greatly exaggerated. I’ve only been dead to the social media world for the last 30 days.
Continue reading →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 segariniTeenaged 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.
Continue reading →Segarini Presents – Celebrity Believe It or Don’t!
Posted in Opinion with tags Celebrity, DBAWIS, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, segarini, Social Media on April 30, 2021 by segariniI have said it before, and I will say it again. The Mainstream Audience LOVES their public figures to be weird, quirky, odd, strange, possessed, mentally unstable, drug addled, alcoholic, Re-Hab invulnerable, mouthy, shallow, deep, oblivious, and/or strangely coiffed or have an artistic deformity. Why? Because everybody knows if you have green hair, dress like a Circus act, own a dolphin, go shopping driving a zamboni, or have a prehensile tail, you are a better singer, actor, or politician than all the others. If you can grow a third arm in the middle of your forehead …you will be destined to be the greatest whatever-you-are until the end of time.
Or until someone comes along whose genitals can recite the Declaration of Independence.
Continue reading →Pat Blythe – The music melting pot…….and music
Posted in music, Opinion, Review with tags Bob Segarini, Carnaby Street, David Jane, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, East of Underground, life is music, luvthemusic, Pat Blythe, Podbean, podcast, Social Media, The Pandemic Interviews, Woodstock Festival on March 3, 2021 by segariniWe all seem to have a penchant for “the good old days”…..those seemingly free and easy days of the 60s and 70s. Thing is, they really were…..free and easy. Oh, they weren’t perfect. People had their personal challenges but the music, oh the music.
There was a special kind of ambience, a unique kind of camaraderie among the artists. It was an exceptional time and it was happening everywhere. The music sonic boom of 60s was taking place on both sides of the ocean. There’s been a cavalcade of books and documentaries written and produced about the artists themselves and the influences they and their music have on us all today, and will continue to for generations to come. It was the perfect storm of change culminating in Woodstock in 1969, propelling us full speed ahead into the 70s.