At a party last summer, I met someone who looked very like Patrick Steward, aka, Captain Picard of Star Trek fame.
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Roxanne Tellier – One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Adam Schiff, Captain Picard, DBAWIS, Doomsday, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Janus, John F. Kennedy, Mark Burnett, Martin Luther King Jr., Matt Gaetz, Mitch McConnell, One of These Things is not like the other, Page Six, Patrick Steward, Roxanne Tellier, segarini, Star Trek, Survivor, The Apprentice. Evangelicals, The New Yorker, war powers. Iran on January 26, 2020 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – STAMPS OF APPROVAL
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Battlestar Galactica, Bob Segarini, Bones, Canada Post, Canadian Music, coins, collecting, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, home delivery, House of Windsor, Jaimie Vernon, James Doohan, John Colicos, Karsh, King Edward VII, King George V, LORNE GREENE, mailman, music, Prince Albert, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria, Scotty, Spock, St. Pancras Station, stamps, Star Trek, Starship Enterprise, War Tax, William Shatner, Wood Burning kit, World War 1 on May 14, 2016 by segarini
This week Canada Post released a series of Original Series ‘Star Trek’ postage stamps featuring Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty. Kirk, of course, was played by the human punchline and proudly Canadian William Shatner and his enemy in real life James Doohan, also Canadian, was Scotty.
Segarini: Bring Out Your Dead Part Two – Solo No Mo – Death by Request and/or The Final Career Move
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Cherry Cola's, Chewie, Darth Vader, DBAWIS, Disney, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Finn, Han Solo, Hollywood, JJ Abrams, Kylo Ren, Movies, Poe, Rey, segarini, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Toronto on February 13, 2016 by segarini
When you think about books, movies, and television whose stories and characters become franchises, one of the reasons for their continuing existence is the sound of a cash register ringing up sales and the effort itself attracting many eyeballs and return visits. What is strange is killing off a fictional character for no other reason than financial gain…or, in at least one case…a request from one person for no other reason than a personal desire to distance himself from the biggest reason he has a career….
If you haven’t read it yet, here’s Part 1 of Bring Out Your Dead
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Segarini – Bring Out Your Dead or Solo No Mo
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Cherry Cola's, Comic strips, DBAWIS, Disney, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Garrison Kiellor, Gasoline Alley, Han Solo, Hollywood, JJ Abrams, Monty Python, Movies, Pouncing, segarini, Skeezix, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, Toronto, Walt Wallet on February 5, 2016 by segarini
Facebook was a beautiful verdant meadow when I first signed up 8 or so years ago. A place where you could look for and find lost friends, renew relationships, reconnect with your old home town, meet new people, and be exposed to music and movies you either didn’t know about or had forgotten. I could hardly wait to go online and see what wonders awaited me…
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JAIMIE VERNON – SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER
Posted in Opinion with tags Aliens, Amazing Stories, Apollo, Astronauts, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music, Civilization, climate change, comet 67-P, DBAWIS, deforestation, Don't Believe a Word I Say, dystopia, Earth, Einstein, Europa, European Space Agency, explorers, famine, flying cars, Ford, Gene Roddenberry, gold mine, Hubble Telescope, Industrial Revolution, Interstellar, inventions, Jaimie Vernon, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, NASA, Puritans, Solar System, Space, space travel, Spanish, Star Trek, Star Wars, static cling., Tesla, The Final Frontier, time travel, transporter, Virgin Galactic on November 15, 2014 by segarini
On November 19th I will be 51 years old. I was born three days before the Kennedy assassination so that puts me in a respectable place to look at a half-century of human endeavour and simultaneous failings with some authority.
JAIMIE VERNON – IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (SLIGHT RETURN)
Posted in Opinion with tags Alien, Aliens, Avatar, Bob Segarini, Buckaroo Banzai, Canadian Music, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cloverfield, Comic Books, Day The Earth Stood Still, DBAWIS, District 9, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drax the Destroyer, E.T., Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, Galaxy Quest, Gamora, George Lucas, Groot, Guardians of the Galaxy, Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jaimie Vernon, James Cameron, JJ Abrams, John Carpenter, Klaatu, Marvel Comics, Men In Black, Outer Limits, Planet of the Apes, Predator, Rocket Raccoon, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star-Lord, Stargate, Steven Spielberg, Super 8, Terminator, The Abyss, The Blob, The Thing, Transformers., Twilight Zone, Vance Astro, War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide on August 9, 2014 by segarini
This week I went to see ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ as one of the few films I’ve had time to check out this year (‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘The Lego Movie’ and ‘Transformers: Age of Bayisms’ the others). As the trailers and teasers have been unfolding for months online I came to realize that I’ve been waiting, unknowingly, over 30 years for this movie.
JAIMIE VERNON – DON’T TRY (CAREER) SUICIDE
Posted in Opinion with tags Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Ray Cyrus, Bob Segarini, Danny Bonaduce, David Bowie, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake, Gallagher Brothers, Jaimie Vernon, Joaquin Phoenix, Marlon Brando, Michael Bay, Miley Cyrus, Neil Young, Nymphomaniac, Oasis, Prince, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Star Trek, Transformers., William Shatner on February 15, 2014 by segarini
Not since Marlon Brando and his moo moo ate their way through Hollywood on the back of non-returnable advances for movies he did everything possible to avoid making has there been so many entertainment types hell bent on changing career paths by killing off their meal tickets.
Thursday it came to light that Canadian rapper Drake was being a social mediot by bad mouthing Rolling Stone magazine for bumping his cover story in favour of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. News flash, Degrassi Boy: Hoffman has more cache dead than you will ever have alive. A simple “I’m disappointed in the turn of events, but understand Rolling Stone’s editorial decision. 
Respect PSH” would have sufficed. Instead, he show-boated. And like fellow rap asshat Kanye West, Drake will attempt to deflect now that people have taken to hating him more than they do already. He’ll mea culpa and return to his life shilling for the Toronto Raptors basketball team.
JAIMIE VERNON – ALL YOU NEED IS CASH
Posted in Opinion with tags Avengers, Beatles, Blu-Ray, box set, CDs, DBAWIS, Dexter, Don't Believe a Word I Say, DVDs, guitars, Jaimie Vernon, Justin Beiber, K-Tel, Marvel, Movies, music, Records, Ron Popeil, Ronco, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, vinyl on November 17, 2012 by segarini
This week Apple Records/Capitol Records released the 14 album/16 LP Beatles vinyl boxed set. It’s the band’s entire in situ output while they were together (and alive) housed in a monolithic cardboard time capsule that is not unlike a black hole version of the Tesseract cosmic cube seen in the movie ‘The Avengers’. So what’s so amazing about this latest ad nauseam repackaging of the same material previously released as re-mastered CDs in 2009 and 2010? Well, it has bigger pictures…and, um, it’s on 180 gram vinyl…and um…the audio has been tweaked once again to compensate for the limitations of black PVC…and um….that’s it. In other word there is no difference.
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