Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper

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  • We’re Back!

    We’re Back!

    So guess what: remember how we had a Kickstarter for Barb’s comic Gun Street Girl?! Well– if you didn’t know already– it made! That means it was successful! GSG’s going to be in color AND in print if people want it! The first volume, anyway! Isn’t that great?! Yes, yes it is! Thank you so much if you’re one of the people who helped make that happen!

    As of this writing, our publisher, Rodolfo, of Lucha Comics, is almost ready to send the PDF to the printers to start on the print copies. I think that’ll start happening later this week?

    But anyway… we were exhausted. It is very nerve-wracking to do a Kickstarter, whether it makes or not. Then it was one of my busy times of the year… But now, we’re trying to come back.

    So anyway, as a reward for you, here’s a couple of brand-new-to-you episodes of our podcast Married Geek Couple. It’s on Spotify and other places one finds podcasts, but only here do I link to examples of some of the songs and stuff we’re talkin’ about… So here they are…

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  • Road Trip TWO, the Sequel!

    Road Trip TWO, the Sequel!

    Hey there folks. Remember when Barb and I recorded a lot of podcast episodes while we were driving to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving this last November? Well guess what (don’t bother, I’ll just tell you), we did the same thing again at Christmas! Here are the first three new episodes from that experience!

    Road Trip TWO, Episode ONE: Songs and Fallout London

    Some songs Barb and/or Park mention in this episode:

    Road Trip TWO, Episode TWO: Austin Radio and Bill Bixby’s Hulk

    Road Trip TWO, Episode THREE: Lou Rawls, Fleetwood Mac, and Road Trips

  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (The Conclusion!)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (The Conclusion!)

    Hi! Time for the conclusion of our Thanksgiving Road Trip! BUT I want to give you a link one more time for watching our live Q&A session we did– it was on Instagram (and still is), but this new link to Pinterest has subtitles and is just technically a little better and so on: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269651358218/

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 7, 8, and 9)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 7, 8, and 9)

    Hi! Time for more of the Road Trip! BUT ALSO: have you seen the recording of our live Q&A session on Instagram? If not, click this link to watch it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEqgsakJMFQ/?igsh=OXo1eHo0OTh4aXNi

    Okay, now back to the audio files from our Road Trip!

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 4, 5, and 6)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 4, 5, and 6)

    Hi! Park here again, with MORE of our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! (As you’ll know if you’ve read our previous posts, it’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!)

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 1, 2, and 3)

    Married Geek Couple: The Road Trip (eps 1, 2, and 3)

    Hi! Park here again, with more of our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! (As you’ll know if you read the last post, it’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!)

    This time is Barb and myself on a road trip– to visit my mother, for Thanksgiving. So we’re talking in the car, on the highway, so yes, there will be some road noise– be warned! But I also think it’s really not too bad. Whichever one of us is talking for more than a couple of seconds is holding the phone right in front of us, so it’s not like you can’t tell what’s being said clearly, really. Each short episode is edited, of course, but it’s just us, again, casually (but intensely) talking about stuff we like (except for Austin radio stations, we do complain just a brief while there in one installment)!

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  • Married Geek Couple: The Audio Files

    Married Geek Couple: The Audio Files

    Hi! Park here. This is our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! It’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!

    It’s Barb and myself talking in our kitchen– at first we were just talking to see if my phone would be an okay choice for recording, and then I decided it would be, so we just went with it! Each short episode is edited, of course, but it’s just us casually (but intensely) talking about stuff we like. The goal is to mostly be for people who want to listen to a happy, positive, married geeky couple talking in their kitchen about things that make them happy–perhaps while you do chores? kitchen stuff? folding laundry? other? There are 10 mostly-short episodes to start with, with many more on the way very soon!

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  • Catching Up With Barb and Park, 10-3-24

    Catching Up With Barb and Park, 10-3-24

    Well, it’s October now– things have been a bit delayed with our first contest, as you already know presuming you read our last newsletter. In case you missed it, the publisher of our story Hungry Ghosts celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a giveaway contest, giving away art and copies of Hungry Ghosts the graphic novel– and some copies of the ebook of the HG prose novel, too, as well as a digital story from Barb’s comic Gun Street Girl.

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  • “Discovering Your Maine Heritage” –A Dark Shadows Story

    “Discovering Your Maine Heritage” –A Dark Shadows Story

    by Barbara Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper

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    Transcript: Discovering Your Maine Heritage (Episode 95 (S5 E15) now with added Update)

    Findley (vocal over images of trees, the Portland skyline, waves breaking on rocks): …You’re watching Channel 10, Portland’s own public television station.

    Findley (a thin, elderly man with silver hair and a white beard and glasses, wearing slacks and a sweater and a blazer and loafers) (outside a large mansion, with a slight breeze blowing): I’m James Findley, and as always, I’m your host… for Discovering Your Maine Heritage.

    Findley (vocal over sitting at a large wooden library table near a large window with a man in his late 30s, with brown hair and haunted eyes): I’m here today with David Collins, of Collinsport, Maine. We’re exploring David’s family history.

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  • “I Hate Asparagus” –a story set in the SONG TO THE SIREN series

    “I Hate Asparagus” –a story set in the SONG TO THE SIREN series

     “I Hate Asparagus,” by Barb Lien-Cooper

    (based on a piece of writing advice by Shirley Jackson)

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    “I hate asparagus,” Louise MacNamara said to the kitchen clock on the wall.

    All the clock said in response was tick, tick, tick.

    “10:03 already. The morning’s just slipped away from me… I simply must get to the grocery store. …Where is my list…?”

    She found it by her purse. “Milk, eggs, bacon, bread…” she said out loud.

    And asparagus.

    “I hate asparagus,” Louise said.

    Asparagus was always a difficult vegetable to get right, her mother had always told her. Cook it too little, it’s chewy. Cook it too much, and it’s bitter and slimy.

    I’m bitter because my husband is slimy, Louise thought.

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