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Roxanne Tellier – Smiling Faces, Sometimes, They Don’t Tell The Truth
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags America, Bob Segarini, catfishing, cyberscam, DBAWIS, envy, Facebook, fake profiles, false sense of intimacy, friending, ghost, Roxanne Tellier, stock photography, unfriend, unfriending, United States on April 9, 2017 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – YOU SAY IT’S MY BIRTHDAY
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Area 51, Ben Casey, Biff Tannen, Birthday, blood clots, Bob Segarini, Bruce Hendrick, Canada, Canadian Music, Cavern Club, Crawford Anglin, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fifty-three, George McFly, George Takei, Grand Canyon, HMCS Haida, Hockey, Jaimie Vernon, Marcus Welby, Moose, Prime Minister Joe Clark, punk band, Queen Mary, Red Rose Tea Cards, Sick Children's Hospital, Sick Kids, Spruce Goose, submarines, Tinder, United States on November 19, 2016 by segarini
As you read this I’m either on or about to go on stage for what is most certainly my 1,000th live musical appearance as the final act on the final night of David Bash’s long-running Toronto International Pop Overthrow Festival (this is year #10). I’ve been humiliating myself and faking musical talent in public since September 1980. Thirty-six years of looking for affirmation in all the wrong places.
Roxanne Tellier: Legalize It!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Bernie Sanders, Bill Blair, Bob Segarini, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, cannabis, Cannabis activist Jodie Emery, CBC News, Charlie Brown, Clive Weighill, Colorado, commercial producers, DBAWIS, Donald Trump, election promise, G8/20, Justice Michael Phelan, Justin Trudeau, LCBO, Liberal Party, Lucy, Marijuana, political gain, pot, regulate, restrict, Roxanne Tellier, Shoppers Drug Mart, stink, The Beer Store, United States on February 28, 2016 by segarini
I’m sure it wasn’t the Canadian government’s intention to play Lucy snatching the football away before Charlie Brown can kick it. But it’s getting harder and harder to trust that the Trudeau government has any intention of following through on promises to legalize, regulate, and restrict marijuana use, medically or recreationally.
Roxanne Tellier Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alberta, Bob Segarini, Brent Hultquist, Brian Masse, Canada, Canwest, CBS, Comcast, cream, David MacMichael, DBAWIS, democracy, Dennis Miller, Disney, Don Wanagas, forbidden foreign ownership, Freedom of Speech, Gin Bourgeois, Golden Tree Asset Management, JaceTraz, James Rooke, Jansen Richard, Jeff Healey, journalists, KarolyneLaFortune, leMeow, Mel Lastman, News Corp, newspapers, Only Café, Ottawa, Pat Blythe, Paul Godfrey, Postmedia, Quinns, Relish, Roxanne Tellier, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, Snow, Sun Media, Thomas Richard MacGillivray, Time-Warner, Toronto Sun, United States, Viacom, Voice of the People, Who, Winter on February 7, 2016 by segarini
The Canadian relationship with winter and snow is a lot like marriage; some love it, and look forward to their time together. Others tolerate winter, but spend a lot of time apart during cold patches. Still others grumble, but it’s a loving martyrdom that takes the good (skiing) right along with the bad (shoveling.)
Roxanne Tellier – The Open Heart
Posted in Opinion with tags Andy Freegard., Australia, AylanKurdi, “Immigration Prevention Centre, “irregular arrivals, “Sierra Leones Refugee All Stars, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Canada, Cliff McAulay, David Suzuki, DBAWIS, Donald Trump, Egyptian, empathy, Europe, Germany, immigrants, International Rescue Committee, ISIS/ISIL, Malta, Mexico, Montreal, Naguib Sawiris, Refugees, Roma, Roxanne Tellier, Serco, Sweden. Hungary, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, UK, United States, vertical mosaic on September 6, 2015 by segarini
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”. (Bob Dylan, “Shelter From The Storm.”)
On Wednesday, the world was horrified to see images of a lifeless 3 year old boy, AylanKurdi, drowned and washed up on the sand on a Tunisian beach. It was a day that changed us. We could no longer look away from the suffering of millions caught in a whirlwind of horror brought about by climate change, political unrest, and unrelenting war.
Roxanne Tellier: IRL – Tweets and Shaming
Posted in Opinion with tags #HasJustineLandedYet, Africa. Internet, angry mob, “cruel and unusual punishment” In Real Life, Benjamin Rush, Bob Segarini, censorship, Criticism, DBAWIS, Delaware, f Justine Sacco, fallible, free speech, Grammar Nazis, hive mind, IRL, Jon Ronson, June Tangney, Kate Harding, Neanderthal, public shaming, Roxanne Tellier, snark, Social Media, tweets, Twitter, unfriend, United States, verbal attacks on July 5, 2015 by segarini
If you are very lucky, you have never, and will never, be in a situation where a group of ordinary people suddenly turn into an angry mob. It’s like the flip of a switch. In a heartbeat, centuries of evolution dissolve, and the hive mind kicks in. Whether you are part of the mob, the object of the mob’s outrage, or are simply caught up in the emotional frenzy, the mob mentality overrules the civilized mind and transforms perfectly ordinary people into raging, club swinging Neanderthals with a single purpose – destruction.
Roxanne Tellier: Music- Like A Prayer
Posted in Opinion with tags alice cooper, Anne Archer, astrology, ‘Queen of Bondage’, “glamour photography, ” evangelical, Bettie Page, black culture, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bob Segariani, Born Again Christian, Buddhism, Canada, Cat Stevens, Catholic, Chef” Comedy Central, Chick Corea, Christian Science, Dawud Wharnsby, DBAWIS, Doug E. Fresh, dreadlocks, Eddie Cantor, Elizabeth Taylor, folk masses, Haywood Nelson, Immigration, Isaac Hayes, Jehovah’s Witness, Jermaine Jackson, Jewish ‘joual.’ Religious Right, Joe Tex, Joey Buttafuoco, John Lennon, Judaism, Kabbalah, Katie Holmes, King of Pop, Kool and the Gang, Larry Graham; Morpheus, Madonna, Matt Stone, Michael Jackson, Mike Todd, Montreal, Nashville, near death, Neo, New York City, Phillip Bubal, pin-up girl, Pope John Paul II, Prince, Protestants, Qur’an, Rakim, Rastafarianism, reggae, religious intolerance, religious themes, Robert “Kool” Bell, Roxanne Tellier, Sammy Davis Jr., Saturday Night Live, scandalizing Christians, Scientology, Sinead O'Connor, South Park, the I Ching and Zen, The Matrix, Tom Cruise, Trey Parker, United States on April 19, 2015 by segarini
In Montreal in the sixties, growing up in a Catholic family, we were always encouraged to use our talents in religious gatherings. Even my Aunt Pat, blissfully unaware that she was tone-deaf, would raise her voice loudly and proudly in song. I sang at mass, first in Latin as the organ wheezed, and later in folk masses, where the guitar was the instrument of choice.
