C. Blake Powers is a writer and photographer with extensive space and national security experience. He has worked in radio as well as for a number of journalistic outlets, and did a photographic internship at Playboy magazine. He became inv0lved with blogs and “new media” back in 2003 and is best known for his work at Laughing Wolf and Blackfive. If you are terminally masochistic, here are some of the dreary details. He took early retirement after being hit by lightning, and seems to be currently living out the Heinlein adage ‘Have you ever met a retired writer?’