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Today is the official Canadian Thanksgiving Day, but every day is a good day to be thankful for the existence of Canada!

From this U.S. fangirl for Canada on today's Canada Day and every day: declaring my love and respect for the Great Sovereign Land of Canada.




Ten Inspiring Quotations About Canada.

(And furthermore: Fox Delta Tango!)

Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Awareness Day and the whole month of April is National Poetry Month so today I bring you a poem by Adam Wolfond, a Canadian non-speaking autistic poet, artist, and book author. (You can read more about his life and accomplishments at his website.)

EROS OF BATHING STIMMING DANCING PACING
by Adam Wolfond

Mostly I want to rake in the people
to understand the ways of pacing real thoughts
the feeling way

pace pace pace the talking
and type type type the thinking

and the two will rally
and become

Pace names the ways of thinking
and typing feels the ways of pacing

every string games
the perfect love in movement
in real relation
with inspirational rights
of people like me

Having the lust dancing in giving life to feel
the names of categories dancing
out of bounds
is amazing to play

and I get a thrill guessing
the way people will respond
to me and my open
languaging

language is the pavement answering
the way and I am the water
bathing and living
lustfully

Main idea in the eros of autism is the pace
dancing so I feel
fantastic like rallying ocean waves
carrying me like a boogie
board of puttering
on top of the warm water

Mind is lavishing
in the ideas in the eros
pacing
give me some examples

Love the power I have been bathing autistically
and living stimming dancing

the pacings
opening that field of thinking toward
artful liberation

from people who think autism is a problem
and janitors of diversity
live in that world

where simple cleanup
is bigger problem

lusting real ludicrous idea
that we need clean perfect people

I fastly make need
jumping always
on the page
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Adam Wolfond, “Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing,” Copyright © 2022, Milkweed Editions.

Happy Canada Day!

Halfway to completing the Fannish Fifty...and with just two months left to finish it. Meep.

This may amuse you whether or not you are in due South & Canadian Six Degrees fandom, but you won't really get the parody aspect if you don't know about Stan Rogers and Garnet Rogers and about Stan's song "Barrett's Privateers".





Lyrics:

Oh the year was nineteen seventy-eight,
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a score of men were turned quite green
By the scummiest ale you've ever seen

Chorus:
God damn them all,
I was told this beer was worth its weight in gold
We'd feel no pain, shed no tears,
But it's a foolish man who shows no fear
At a glass of Garnet's homemade beer.

(Chorus)

Old Garnet Rogers cried the town
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
For twenty brave men all masochists who
Would taste for him his homemade brew.

(Chorus)

This motley crew was a sickening sight
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
There was caveman Dave with his eyes in bags
He'd a hard-boiled liver and the staggers and jags.

(Chorus)

We hadn't been there but an hour or two
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
When a voice said "Give me some homemade brew"
And steel-eyed Stan hove into view.

(Chorus)

Now steel-eyed Stan was a frightening man
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
He was eight foot tall and four foot wide
Said, "pass that jug or I'll tan your hide."

(Chorus)

Stan took one sip and pitched on his side
(How I wish I'd never tried it now)
Ol' Garnett was smashed with a gut full of dregs
And his breath set fire to both me legs.

(Chorus)

So here I lie with me twenty-third beer
(how I wish I'd never tried it now)
It's been ten years since I felt this way
On the night before me wedding day.

(Chorus)

Happy Canada Day to dSC6D fen and Canadian fen in general!

verushka70 and I celebrated Canada Day with a dinner at my house. I decorated my dining-room table with a maple-leaves centerpiece and some of my due South collectibles. I made dinner and "Vee" (as I call verushka70) brought a case of Moosehead Beer.

Read more about Moosehead Breweries, over a century-and-a-half old and now the last major brewery in Canada still owned by Canadians: Click here for Moosehead Breweries homepage.

In Memoriam: Gordon Pinsent

May his memory be a blessing.

Now I'm thinking of this scene of Gordon's in due South:
Bob: I've solved my last crime. I've caught my last man. No reason to stick around.
Benton: It's just I...I thought you were permanent.
Bob: Oh son, nothing's permanent.

Happy Canada Day, dSC6D Fen! *points to icon*

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