The pass between Pays Plat and Cavers at the top of Lake Superior is nearly 11 km long divided almost evenly between uphill and downhill escarpments with grades approaching 8% on many sections so those who are weak stomached or decide to skimp on new brakes for the car need to turn around and go back to Toronto.
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GRAN’S CANADA HIGHWAY – EPISODE 6: THUNDER BAY TO KENORA by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, Serialized Book with tags Bob Segarini, Canada, Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Cavers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dryden, Eagle Lake, Elsie MacGill, English River, Fort William, Grand Trunk Railway, Highway 61, Hudson's Bay Company, Hurricane Bomber, Jacques de Noyon, Jaimie Vernon, John Dryden, Kakabeka Falls, Kama, Kaministiquia, Kenora, Lake Superior, Lakehead Region, National Transcontinental Railway, Ojibwe, Pierre de La Vérendrye, Port Arthur, Portage-aux-Rats, road trip, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Sleeping Giant, Thor, Thunder Bay, Trans-Canada Highway, Wannange Lake on August 3, 2020 by segariniPat Blythe – A Soda, a Wilson, a Taylor and a Merry Christmas!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Beautiful Scars, Bob Segarini, CNE Bandshell, DBAWIS, Don't Believe A Work I Say, Frank Soda and the Imps, Gene Pool, Gladstone Hotel, Lisa MacIntosh, Music Makers: Pictures At The Great Hall, Pat Blythe, Robbie Lane and The Disciples, Sam Taylor, Thor, Tom Wilson, Tube Records on December 13, 2017 by segarini
Curled up on the upstairs couch this morning, enjoying my little Christmas tree with the snow gently falling outside the window, once again leafing through Lisa MacIntosh’s book Music Makers: Stories of The Great Hall. I’m discovering pictures of people I have also photographed during my treks through the Toronto club and concert scene. Faces I recognize but didn’t necessarily know their names or even who they were. (I keep hearing the voice of my friend Sam Taylor in the back of my head….”you know him, you shot him at the Kelly Jay benefit….ya, you know her/him too from (insert show/club/etc. here)…”
Pat Blythe: Ruminations
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Black Dog Grin, Alan Frew, Assault, Barry Connor, Billboard Hot 100, Black Forest Riders, Blair Thornton, Bob Segarini, Bryan Adams, BTO, Charles Towers, Chilliwack, CHUM FM, Cony Hatch, Cottingham Sound, Daniel Bourne, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Soda, Gary LaLonde, Genesis, Get It On Credit, Girls Night Out, Glen Gratto, GTA, Heart, Honeymoon Suite, Howard Froese, Jeff Beck, Jim Vallance, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page, Jon Lechesseur, Jon Mikl, Jumping Bad, Klaatu, Lawrence Gowan, Live In The Tube, Madame Malabar, Madcats, Northwest Battle of the Bands, Oversexed, Pacemaker Records, Pacific Songwriters Association, Pat Blythe, Pat Bourke, Peter Crolly, Peter Kadar, Piccadilly Tube, Plateau, Prism, Quality Records, Queen, Rhinegold, Robert Connelly, Rush, Seeds of Time, Soda Pop, Styx, Supertramp, Take My Picture Please, The Canadian Ballet, The Collectors, The Imps, The Instructions, Thor, Triumph, Trooper, Two Faces, What About Love, Winter's Green, Your Daddy Don't Know on December 2, 2015 by segarini
It’s Tuesday night, November 17. My renovations are nearing completion, the house is dead quiet as I sit here, stretched out on the couch, looking around at this home we lived in together for 18 years. Remembering all the wonderful celebrations, dinners, Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners, TV watching, companionable “book reading”, and just quietly being, soaking up each other’s presence.
Roxanne Tellier: Shaping The New Sexual Revolution – 1960 Redux
Posted in Opinion with tags Alejandra Ribera, Australia, Blair Packham, Bob Reid, Bob Segarini, Bruce Jenner, Canada, Canadian Music Week, CMW, Craigslist, Daniel Lanois, David Wildsmith, DBAWIS, Death Cab for Cutie, Diane Sawyer, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Drake Underground, Faith No More, Felicity Huffman, Fergus Hambleton, Frank Gutch Jr., fusion.net, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger/Sean Lennon, HughsRoom, Jamaica, Janet Mock, JeffreyTambor, JUNO Awards, Kardashian, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Leon Bridges, Massey Hall, MeredithTalusan, New York Times, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Olympic Gold Decathlon in 1976, Pat Blythe, Phoenix Concert Theatre, Piers Morgan, reggae, Rival Sons, Roger King, Ron Sexsmith, Roxanne Tellier, Royal Cinema, Salt &Pepa, The Beatles, The Danforth Music Hall, The Doors, The Horseshoe, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Money Or The Gun, The Sattalites, the Sony Centre, The Waterboys, Thor, Toronto, Transamerica, Transparent, Walk Off the Earth, WinterGarden Theatre, Yorkville on April 26, 2015 by segarini
You would have had to be living under a rock to miss the run up to Diane Sawyer’s two hour interview with Bruce Jenner on Friday, April 23. Jenner was dubbed the “world’s greatest athlete” after winning the Olympic Gold Decathlon in 1976, and has been the object of snide insinuations and ridiculing photos in the yellower media (and even the New York Times) for the last several months as he appeared to be transitioning from male to female before our prying eyes.
Frank Gutch Jr: O Canada: A Nod to The Great White North— (and more of them goddamn notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags bill jackson, Bob Segarini, bobby gottesman, Caitlin Canty, Chloe Albert, Darrell Vickers, Dave Bidini, David Olney, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., Gowan, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jaimie Vernon, Jane Gowan, Jubal Lee Young, Laurie Biagini, music videos, On a Cold Road, Pete Fidler, Pursuit of Happiness, Records, Rheostatics, Roxanne Tellier, Sergio Webb, Shade, Sloan, South of Bloor, Steve Young, The Extras, Thor, Tim Vesely, Toby Swann, Tragically Hip, Violet Archers on September 2, 2014 by segarini
I am a lost Son of Canada. I must be. I love Canadian bacon, though bacon it not really be (except maybe technically). I love Jennifer Dale, an actor who deserved much more than she has been afforded, respect-wise (I reveled in her work on Canadian TV and film during Comcast’s all-too-short span of including CTV and CBC on their cable lineups in the ’80s). I love Due South, one of the most creative and funny-on-so-many-levels series TV has ever created (the transition of Ray to Ray— David Marciano to Callum Keith Rennie— a work of pure writing craftmanship).
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 