Among Other Things, I Cut My Hair

I now keep it quite short.

There’s an idea I came across while rereading The Crossing.  Briefly: if evil was not rewarded by the world, then people wouldn’t engage in it.  Since there is evil, it is rewarded.  Good, then, in its purest form, exists in spite of any recompense.  I have a hard time believing in altruism despite its popularity, but when expressed in such a way, I think I can understand it.  Good becomes work, rather than some ideal.  I can understand a world in which that’s how we’ve survived.  I guess it’s not a very cheery idea, but it fits into my worldview rather perfectly.  I can apply it to my life lately without flaw.

I led you in thinking this was gonna be fun, didn’t I? Senseless title, uncharacteristically upbeat song. A lot of drama since coming home, family and otherwise.  Good things though, too.  Threw a pool party that put everything I’ve seen in California to shame. Got through two major revisions of the third book–cut almost forty pages from it, tentatively.  Been working on ideas for CRATE; combing through submissions for Phantom Seed, another litmag I got attached to; and started working in a low capacity for the Los Angeles Review of Books, an endeavor that’s going to be damn huge when it launches.  So, yeah, don’t expect much out of me on here.  I’ll keep you abreast of everything else I’m doing.

Until I publish something new.