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Showing posts with label Nerd Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nerd Church. Show all posts
Sunday 17 March 2019
Nerd Church - New Zealand. What Can I Say?
New Zealand.
What can I say?
Nothing that can make this horrible terrorist attack better or more bearable.
Nothing that can bring back the beautiful people you lost.
All I can give you is my heart, which breaks for you.
All I can give you is my love, in the faint hopes that it will help in some tiny way to sooth what hatred has done.
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Month in Review(s) - February 2019
February was... OK.
Look, I'd love to say it was great. But my Depression has been kind of up-and-down.
So I can't honestly call it 'great' - but 'ok' is fairly accurate.
I survived it. I even enjoyed some of it. So 'ok' is what I'm gonna call it.
Sunday 10 March 2019
Sunday 3 March 2019
Nerd Church - Save the World
With the world the way it is (*looks out at trash fire and sighs*) the major issue our planet is facing is in danger of being pushed to the side-lines.
But we need to focus on climate change.
Because, contrary to what the loud handful of naysayers say, we are wrecking the planet.
Image by TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay |
Sunday 24 February 2019
Nerd Church - The Writer Diaries: Relocating Cymru
If you're familiar with this blog, you're probably aware that I'm Welsh.
(If not, then how on Earth have you managed to miss that? That's actually impressive!)
We win flags, ok? |
So it may come as something of a shock to you that in the past I've rarely, if ever, set stories in Wales.
Nope.
In fact, I was more likely to set a story in London than Cardiff - and I've never set foot in London.
History nerd that I am, I probably know more about London 150 years ago than I do London today.
Sunday 17 February 2019
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Month in Review(s) - January 2019
January went by in a flash - and not the cool, Barry Allen, kind. (You gotta love nerd humour 😁)
I guess it's because I had an awful cold for half the month...? 😷
And aside from that, I've just been doing the usual, hectic, working-my-a**-off, stuff.
Sunday 10 February 2019
Nerd Church - Rebel Valentine 3: Revenge of the Roses
Is it just me?
No, really, is it me?
Is there something fundamentally unlovable about me? Am I undeserving of romance or love? Is that why no-one’s ever been ‘in the picture’?
Am I broken?
These thoughts are, of course, utter b*llsh**.
But part of me still kinda believes them.
Welcome to Rebel Valentine 3!
If you’ve read previous Rebel Valentine’s posts, you probably know where this is going.
If not, buckle up and prepare for potentially TMI. (I’ll try to keep it lowkey, but no promises!)
Sunday 3 February 2019
Nerd Church - Responsible Reporting Required: How Media Outlets Are Failing To Follow Suicide Prevention Guidelines
(Warning: this post discusses suicide and self-harm. It also discusses poor reporting of these issues, and the danger of 'copycat' incidents.)
(For helplines, see details at the bottom of this post.)
There's been a lot of buzz in the UK over the last week or two over the prevalence of self-harm imagery on the Internet, and its link to suicide.
Now, there's def. issues with that, but there's also more issues than you'd think with the actual god-damned reporting of this issue.
The UK's leading suicide prevention charity, The Samaritans, provides Media Guidelines [PDF] for reporting on suicide.
These guidelines contain advice based on academic research on the affects of different types of news coverage.
I check them whenever I'm talking about this issue, and when I make a conscious decision to bend them, as I did when talking about the death of Chester Bennington, I'm very clear about my reasons for this, and exceptionally careful with every single word I use.
Sunday 27 January 2019
Nerd Church - A Few Ruminations on Perspective
You can see exactly the same thing as someone else... and somehow you both see it differently.
Sometimes that's because you were looking at what happened from a different angle - a physically different angle, where you literally saw things differently.
For example, videos taken from different angles lead people to believe different versions of events.
People see details that are blocked from the view of others, but in turn they lose details that others can see.
Sunday 20 January 2019
Nerd Church - Caffeinated Current Events: Dear Lord, the Breakfast (Brexit)
I swear to God. I swear to Iesu Grist. Wtf parliament dudes?! Wtf?!
Breakfast (or, as some people call it, Brexit,) isn't going too well, so I'm hear to explain in a caffeine-fuelled, (hopefully) satirical fashion!
(Note: these are my opinions, you can totally disagree with me, I don't mind.)
Yep, this is another 'Caffeinated Current Events' post - 'cos you lot seemed to like the last one.
(It's a little like Drunk History - only sober and present-day, so... not.)
Sunday 13 January 2019
Nerd Church - Media Overload: Quality, Quantity, and Diversity
There is more media and entertainment in our world today than ever before.
Even putting to one side the numerous web-pages and status updates that are published every single second, the rate at which new books, films, TV shows, songs, etc. are being created and published is immense.
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Month In Review(s) - December 2018
In order to fully boot 2018's a** out the back door, there's still a little business to attend to - in this case, December's wrap-up.
Except for Christmas (which is always amazing - I love Christmas,) December sucked.
Sunday 6 January 2019
Nerd Church - The Writer Diaries: I Need To Be More Patient With My Writing
I've recently started re-writing a story/novella/novel* that I started writing when I was a teenager... about a decade ago.
And I want it to be finished.
But I know that there's a butt-tonne of work to do to it (I'm basically re-writing the whole thing and making it less... melodramatic... as well as changing the focus a bit.)
*It's been the length of all of these at one time or another 🙈
Sunday 30 December 2018
Nerd Church - Listen Up, 2019, We Need To Talk
Dear 2019,
We gave 2018 plenty of time and patience and care. And it still stabbed us in the back (and possibly some other places...)
So, despite the efforts of your elder siblings (years 2016 through 2018,) we're still standing, and still not giving up on hope.
But how about you make this easier for us?
Sunday 23 December 2018
Nerd Church - Why Christmas Is More Important To Me Than Ever
I love Christmas. I adore Christmas.
Christmas. Is. Amazing.
More than that, this year, I NEED Christmas!
Sunday 16 December 2018
Sunday 9 December 2018
Nerd Church - Perfect Imperfection
I've written and re-written this week's Nerd Church post about a hundred times.
I've attempted several different topics, several different ways, and nothing seems to be right.
Thursday 6 December 2018
Month in Review(s) - November 2018
Maybe you should all just assume that it wasn't a good month, unless I tell you differently? 😅
It'll save a lot of time and make me feel like I'm whining a lot less!
Sunday 2 December 2018
Nerd Church - Seeing People
"Hang on," I told my work-colleague, then I strode off.
"Where are you...? There's nothing over there! What are you gonna do, get a taxi?"
"No..." I call back over my shoulder; why the hell would he think I was gonna get a taxi? We had like, five minutes to get back from lunch.
I count out pound coins as I walk. 1... 2... 3. I head towards the guy in the red tabard, smiling, "I'll have one!" I call.
He smiles at me, and I wonder how everyone ignores that smile.
How could you?! I've heard of smiles that light up a room, but his lights up the street.
"Thank you darling!" he says, his voice almost a song, "God bless you!"
This is the Big Issue seller who helped me get through at a time when life was darkest.
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