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“Comfort food” @fredhincanada

Since I was a kid my mum has made a meal we call the ‘chicken soup meal’ - it looks kinda like this. After a while she started making it with southern fried chicken and bacon and OMG 🤣 delicious.

One birthday that’s gone down in family history was when I chose it for my birthday meal. My brother had been working
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“Jokes” @fredhincanada

Most of what makes me laugh is situational and doesn’t translate into a blog. But there are two one-liners I absolutely love 🤣

Milton Jones: “My neighbour isn’t too well, he keeps having to go to the hospital with concussions. I feel bad for the guy, he only lives a stone’s throw away”

Tim Vine:

My friend said he was going to the
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This is an appreciation post for the value of the SG community and what’s happened since FRED’S GAUNTLET@FREDHINCANADA has been a true friend to so many people here, including me, and with his Gauntlet he’s been scattering the spirit of friendship here on SG like some kind of Canadian pixie.

Nothing’s been the same since coronavirus. Did it change any of your lives like
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I was tagged by @dicentra with a list of questions about what a meet-up would look like, and the number of questions seemed more blog- than comment-worthy. And when I started thinking about her questions, it was a really nice imaginative exercise - thinking about what happened on the best days in times gone by - so here are my answers.

(“If you met me
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“A song you love” @fredhincanada

There are so many songs I could have chosen, but I’ve decided on Jee Veerey by Bloodywood because it has literally saved lives. Just read the comments 😮 the title means ‘live, brave one’ and it’s all about surviving our darkest moments. Because in them ‘iron is forged’. It’s an unforgettable track, both for its message and for that fact...
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“A piece of art” @fredhincanada

This piece of art is called Endless Love, by a local artist. I spent everything I could afford on it, years ago now. It’s all ink on canvas. Must have taken ages. I do believe some forms of love and connection are endless and transcendent, and that’s what this represents to me. When I see it, it reminds me not
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Photo by Samuel Benjamin Hernandez Lopez

Inspired by @dicentra ‘s confessional style of poetry in her recent Blog I want to share a poem I wrote a while back. Thanks also to @berlin_2013 for the vote of confidence and @fredhincanada for being @fredhincanada

Her Name Is Depression

I’ve got this problematic girlfriend

Her name is Depression

I don’t think we’ll ever end

It’s like she’s
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“Something you’ve created” @fredhincanada

Photo by Alexander Mass

Some time in 2013 I woke up from a dream with tears in my eyes. I’d seen a girl in a field of wildflowers with a lone oak in the centre. Somehow, I just knew she was called Everlie. At the time, I was a creative writing student, and I was working on what I was calling
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“A book you love” 📚 @fredhincanada

I have to answer this question with A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki ❤️

It’s the story of Nao, a Japanese teenager who writes about her life in her journal, and Ruth, a Canadian woman who finds this journal washed up in a Hello Kitty lunchbox on a beach in British Colombia. Ruth becomes deeply invested
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Hey SG Land.
I wanted to write about something special to me that I think fits with the vibe and aesthetic of SG.
Many people love ambient or cinematic music, but the dark ambient from the Bandcamp label Cryo Chamber is extraordinary. They have a stable of incredibly creative ambient musicians creating deliciously dark, unsettling and storied music.
The image above is from ProtoU’s latest
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