sending lightbeams...

A dear friend and kindred spirit, DW Cooper, known to a lot of us from our cybertravels in and through forums and blogs such as the incredibly-inspirational and informative Invisible College Forum, The Blind Spot and the erotic and tantrically-charged Sleepytime Cafe has gone from the Earthly plane and is now travelling onto his next big adventure.

I was very saddened by the news of his death but have been processing the waves of emotion over the day and every time I get a little blue or bummed I have felt an almost electrical charge running through me, as if DW was somehow sprinkling some sort of "spiked pixiedust" around to let me/us all know that everything's alright and to remember to LAUGH. DW could always make ya laff. I know that sounds cheesey, but ya know wot? DW could also be a little cheesey at times so I think this is probably spot-on.

As news is getting around on the blogs of friends who knew him and via the emails of those who spent time with him telling funny little stories, it's given me the chance to sort of travel back in time and read through a lot of the posts DW placed around at his blogs and on the Invisible College forum, where I first made contact with him a couple of years ago. It's amazing how many lives this person has touched, and also what a wealth of information and understanding he possessed within himself.

I'm going to try to not get too worked up here and end up rambling, but instead, I want to post a few links and pics from some of the subjects that were among his favorites, in tribute-- inspired by Sauceruney's earlier post:

KLOWNS:

Clown Quartet (windozz media player)

Watch as bizarro little glove puppets
do a freaky little dance
and sing a little song.

(fyi, the song is a keeper.)


WOMEN:


Back in the early days when I used to surf on over and visit the Invisible College blog (before he used up all the space and had to start The Blind Spot), I seem to recall DW had a fondness for women along the surf (both tastefully clothed and un-clothed, I might add). Here is a nice one of a beauty from Tahiti who looks like she is in a dream...

SCI-FI:

and here *sigh/swoon* is a photo of Trance Gemini-- a character from the Sci-Fi show Andromeda-- who was one of DW's favorite characters.

After sharing mutual raves about Farscape, DW ended up convincing me one night to watch Andromeda because he thought I might really dig Trance's character (wot with her pointy little ears and sexy little outfits and all, I mean come'on, who doesn't love that sorta stuff?)

I have to admit, after two attempts at watching the show, I couldn't get into it. I found the acting was just a little too wooden for my tastes, but I certainly understand why DW used to say that he would love to be her butler!

I won't ever be able to sum up this remarkable person's life with just a mere blog tribute, but I will say that DW Cooper was one of the most genuine, warm, understanding, good-humoured and deep-natured individuals that I ever have connected with. I had even put him in touch with my dad in Chicago and they shared a few online chats via msn messenger, and DW sent him a copy of Merchants of Deception to read (which he still raves about).

And finally, here's a link to a great pic of DW himself (courtesy of Digital Falcon) that he'd sent around a month or so ago to show us all the gigantic Hershey bar that Michael brought over when he stopped by to meet him in person. (DW used to joke that the only "drugs" he liked were coffee and chocolate!)

We're all missin' ya like crazy, maaaan....