Dave Cook
Dave Cook
Dave Cook is a comic writer, video game journalist, author and former PR consultant living in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2014, he founded independent comic production house Card Shark Comics...
block men climbing
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world...
cake hated icing kids losing met title winning
Winning the title would be the icing on the cake for Cody and David. I've never met two kids who hated losing so much.
beer people bottles
Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.
lying climbing brain
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.
feeling goals high last month season team
We have set our goals really high all season and this was one of the things that we really wanted. I think we showcased what we can do this weekend. For the last month and a half, our whole team has been on a mission. We have a feeling that making it is not enough; we want it all.
call colleague exercise innocent justice mercy
We respectfully call on Jill's captors to exercise justice and mercy and let our innocent colleague go free.
chance gave people
The people who gave him CPR are what gave him a chance at all.
calm rest river water
Because of the dam, the water was so calm you could paddle up and down. The rest of the river is a one-way river.
stay
I'm already here and I already have my businesses. I can stay here one way or another.
call employees protecting realize trying virginia west
West Virginia was a wake-up call for everyone. We're trying to get employees to realize they're No. 1 for protecting themselves.
cost whatever
Essentially we wanted to do whatever had to be done. The cost of replacing it was so exorbitant.
flood took
A flood in 1908 took most of them out.
bunch coach guy guys mention pair special tough
They are a special, special pair of kids. I'll probably never coach one guy like them and right now I have two. Not to mention a bunch of tough, tough big guys down low.
feeling final great
It's just a great feeling to be going to the final four.