Tag Archives: Kristal Crow

On depression, and support networks

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Mark A. Cooper

(NSFW advisory for language, and the content of external links) This morning, at about 4.30am, I was checking through my main feed on Twitter when I saw Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, asking people to send good thoughts to a … Continue reading →

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Thank you.

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Mark A. Cooper

(This post has an NSFW advisory for language.) As anyone who follows myself or Kristal Crow on Twitter will know by now, yesterday was Kristal’s birthday. And she hadn’t planned to celebrate it. To her, it was just another day … Continue reading →

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The Organ Trail – no lousy horse and wagon, here…

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Mark A. Cooper

NSFW advisories: The text of this article, plus the first two links, and the HitmarkerVS link. On Sunday night, Adam Jones of the Sound the Alarm Podcast talked about some of the games he’d been enjoying lately, and one which … Continue reading →

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Puns: A not-so-guilty pleasure…

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Mark A. Cooper

Over the course of the past few weeks, I’ve been discovering that an increasing number of my Twitter friends are revealing themselves either to be into telling puns, or they simply appreciate puns, and this is incredibly pleasing to me. … Continue reading →

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On the awkwardness of fanboi-ism

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Mark A. Cooper

(NSFW Advisory for Language) I have many failings, but one of them can be a source of severe potential awkwardness, especially when it’s compounded by my nerdiness: I become star-struck by celebrities. I’m not the sort of person who incessantly … Continue reading →

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