Steve Perry

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.

Anybody can make it out the garage, once they get the unobtanium and handwavium. Check Ace Hardware. If they are out of handwavium, bullshitium can be made to do in a pinch.

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.)

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Kind of a shame that Steve Allen's 1955 story, The Public Hating, doesn't work any more ...

www.scribd.com/document/516...

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State of the Union 2026

Bumper sticker: Oswald! Where the fuck are you when we need you?

Failed assassins deserve no news time. Our neural systems can't cope with irresponsible doses of hope right now.

Dean Wesley Smith posted the Kickstarters that #readers and #writers should look at this week. Lots of fantasy, dark academia, and romance. Worth studying…and backing!

#books
#booksky

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When Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones played, respectively, the crusty old ex-Texas Rangers, Gus and Call, in Lonesome Dove? Gristled, weathered, one-foot-in-the grave Gus and Call?

When the series aired?

Duval was 58 years old.

Jones was 42.

Which meant they were younger when it was filmed.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84 Jackson was a major contributor to the Civil Rights Movement and helped it accomplish many of its goals.

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Robert Duvall, Star of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 95 Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies" and was nominated for “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Great Santini,” has died.

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Never have been many silat teachers in the U.S., and only a handful really qualified to pass it along.

My Silat Journey (so far ...) I started Pentjak Silat  in November, 1995, after seeing a demonstration at a science fiction convention early of a Sunday morning. Normal...

For the martial artists:

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Listen, don't mention Friday the Thirteenth I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it alright …

I understand your anger -- got more than my share about how things are this this country. That said, this incident is about a Canadian shooter using what will almost certainly turn out to be a relative's gun (or guns) that were legally-registered in a part of B.C. where almost everybody has guns.

My point was that the shooter was a woman and (probably) a Canadian and that gun-violence is everywhere. I don't believe that "Fuck the states" gives her a pass, if that gun turns out to be legally-obtained and properly registered. We'll see how that goes.

Crypto lost 2 Trillion dollars in "value"
in the last few weeks.

So sad. Anyway...

How can something which
has no value, lose it?

Electricity is expensive enough
without pretending it's actually money.

Crypto is a lot like musical chairs
except the last guys without chairs,
are set on fire.

Gave up browsing YouTube; FaceBook's Reels are bad enough, and those tend to show me stuff I'm inclined to like. Mostly I go to look at old music videos, or movie clips.

That he has any approval at all is a testament to how many willfully ignorant, stupid, racist, sexist people abide in these United States.

Tell you who it was not: Raylan Givens.