Tuesday blog post up. Live on Patreon for anyone giving me a buck: www.patreon.com/c/blazeward 3-week lag on the website: www.blazeward.com

My version, done a while back. Telnaes is waaay better ...

Covid stick #13, Moderna. Who knew the future would be what it is? War, famine, pestilence, death — always with us. I was kinda hoping we might eliminate a few of those by now. Idiocracy empowered by idiots makes that unlikely. Hang in there. Maybe science and reason will come back into vogue.

www.kgw.com/article/news... Takeaway: New variant, old vaccine doesn't work as well against it.

DAY 21 OF CHEMO — 4/1/2026 A GoFundMe Series: gofund.me/d053ee11d Tomorrow, Terrye will getting two strong #chemotherapy drugs. Meds so strong they require other drugs to buffer theif effects before and after her chemo. It will be her longest and most frightening session of chemo, so far. #cancer

The worst part of being a #caregiver is the #invisibility. No one knows what it #costs, the #time, no matter how #problematic it is, no matter how much #effort you put into what is being taken #care of. When you #experience a burst of #rage and #frustration, no one cares. You are #alone.

Bathed the dog today. She tolerates this better than most of the dogs who've lived here, and got the zoomies afterward. Tired herself, and conked out next to my office chair. Lovely aroma of still-damp-after-three-towels rising up into the air ...

I AM SO DAMN TIRED I want to pretend we aren't killing civilians in Iran. But we are. I want to pretend Americans will have healthcare. But they won't. I want to pretend our president is an upstanding individual. But he isn't and has never been. I want to pretend my wife isn't dying, but she is.

I often wonder, when reading posts on social media, if the poster is 1) Stupid 2) Evil or 3) Both. (Applicable to humans and/or bots.) Interesting to me that, with minimal investigation, the answer 3) Both, seems to fit. God must love stupid and evil folks, else there wouldn’t be so many of them.

DAYS 19 and 20 OF CHEMO — 3/31/2026 A GoFundMe Series: gofund.me/d053ee11d Terrye is back home and breathing better. The drawing of fluid eased her suffering and she coughs far less often. She was able to eke out two four hour periods of actual sleep. The use of a wheelchair still floors me.

Gun stuff for writers: What's hot now. themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/2026/03/boom...

This week's short story is Lending The Truth. It's the flipside of Knowledge Blooms, which I published a few weeks ago. Pure fantasy about those little lending libraries, light and hopeful. Lending The Truth has a little lending library, but this one is haunted. books2read.com/u/m0yr6l

You want the unmasked, indoor dogs at the airports to look harmless; the attack-outdoor dogs who do the killing? You need to hide those muzzles.

Limited attendees, historically the lowest incidence of Covid exposure on that date, and HEPA air purifiers going. Writers, artists, editors, like that. Haven't been to such in six years and this might be the last time I do one of these, give my propensity of late ...

The New York times has been carrying water for fascists since at least Reagan. I stopped reading them after they published lies to sanewash Bush's invasion of Iraq. I used to think the rest of the media would cover up the hole left by the Times. Not any more, if they ever did.

93 years ago today.

An interlude and two new chapters of "Emerald Throne," up on the patreon, for those of you who are there. The $5 tier. www.patreon.com/posts/worldb...

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Dueling with two consenting adults is still there RAND PAUL: It's been illegal for 170 years! There's no precedent for legal dueling

Just argued over whether AI corrupts human cognition like radiation "corrupts" steel. Not a good experience. I was hoping for an informative session and I got a gotcha-quest, because I didn't mix the right metaphors. They said: I should stop doing social media and delete my account. Harsh.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN — OSCAR WINNER: BEST ACTOR For ‘SINNERS’ Smoke and Stack are twin brothers and the central characters in Ryan Coogler’s 2025 horror film SINNERS, portrayed by Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as Elijah #Smoke Moore and Elias #Stack Moore. Smoke: British flat cap Stack: red fedora

Just saw a note from his family that William Dietz, the space-opera/military SF writer, has passed away. He was a couple years older than I. Damn.

Fifteen years ago — fifteen, count ‘em — I wrote another anti-war song. Scary how most of it still applies. Or really, how any anti-war song applies. soundcloud.com/steveperry-1...

Someday, the PE bubble will collapse, and people will ask "What went wrong?" And we'll say "You thought in terms of monetizing IP, not satisfying customers with good products."

Ignore Perry and his "reasons," this is huge fun. There are lots of guns, it's true, but he's a liberal anyway, like me.

Dog-and-goat-killer Noem has been fired. Was only a matter of time.

So, my latest novel, Pistoleers, is live as an ebook on Amazon. If you follow the link, click on the Read Sample button. The foreword offers a warning. Gives you reasons why you might not want to buy this book. You should read it before you plunk your money down. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR71QHH...

The old cat, an inside/outside critter for most of his nearly seventeen years, hates being kept inside now. So he's being allowed out for a few minutes at a time to bask in the sun -- but supervised ...

Of mankind’s follies, war has to be the most foolish — to kill each other in droves is not the mark of a civilized species. All those deaths to try and obscure the Epstein Files. Blood on the hands of those who could, but won’t stop it.

The science fiction and horror novelist Dan Simmons has died. I didn't like his politics, and I had a couple interactions that resulted in a lowering of my opinion of him on a personal level, neither of which was that big a deal, but at his peak? He was a helluva writer.

Border patrol abandoned a blind man to die, and he did. There are mass graves in this country.

Dean Wesley Smith just did another cover comparison—the newest redone cover for WMG. Indie #writers, take a look. (Okay, the rest of you can look too.) deanwesleysmith.com/teachable-ha...

Kind of a shame that Steve Allen's 1955 story, The Public Hating, doesn't work any more ... www.scribd.com/document/516...