Several bits of astonishing news today…
Andy Brouwer reports that he is finally finished with his years-in-the-making book To Cambodia With Love, which is being published in a month or two by ThingsAsian Press of San Francisco, my old hometown.
The book is sure to be of the utmost quality and authority due to both Andy's impossibly deep, wide and electrified knowledge and affection for all things Cambodian and to the publisher's impeccable standards and sensibility. Oh, and there's an essay of mine in there too.
They're the folks who published my book To Myanmar With Love. Its not really my book, its their book and it was edited (with contributions by) by Morgan Edwardson, a very good guy I know who shares my love of the Burmese people and culture and who was kind enough to ask me to supply photos for the book. But my name is on the cover and so sometimes – and I believe that you should forgive me for this without hesitation or remorse – I refer to it as my book even though I didn't really do much work on it.
The book also includes a couple of essays that I wrote.
Speaking of which, the book I mean… here is a little mini-review of the book on a cool-assed-looking website called BANG!
In other news, my almost not even embarrassing anymore Steve Goodman Photography website is coming along very nicely and soon (I've got my fingers crossed) I won't have much more work to do except for freshening it up once or twice a month. Then… more time to work on photography projects and not website development projects
It cost me a bundle because I chose to do it myself, not paying close attention to the fact that I really don't know that much about buidling a website using WordPress.
Sometimes, if you really want to get things done, it is imperative that one ignores the facts, even really big important ones, if one wants to get something significant accomplished. After all, if we let our mere lack of experience stop us from attempting to do something where would be be today? Not sitting pretty and living large I'd be willing to wager.
It took a long time with a lot of false starts, dead-ends and an enormous amount of disciplined focus and concentration. I learned a lot and I like that a whole bunch.
Same goes for The Hellhounds blog, which I think turned out nicely as a fun little example of tongue-in-cheek branding and promotion.
Of course these blogs and websites and things like them will always be works-in-progress, owing mainly to my steadfast and deeply-seated beleif that everything in life is experimental and therefore temporary. Its just a glaringly obvious addendum to or extrapolation of a central point in the teachings of the Buddha, which – as you probably already know – was that all things must pass since all things are temporary and consequently unstable (though they often appear to be permanent) and subject to radical upheaval and massive unanticipated change.
Life is full of mystery. Or is that misery? Well, I guess its a bit of both - depending on how you look at it – and naturally here at MythCo Publishing (a wholly owend subsidiary of DudeCo Industries) we're always hoping for the best while still bearing in mind that its all one big amazingly improbable experiment and that everything could just go Kablooey at any time… and often does!
Finally, speaking of mystery, misery and The Hellhounds… please come on out to Sharky Bar on Thursday night to see
The Hellhounds tear into the BLUES
We're gonna be a-wompin' and a-stompin' and we just might pitch you a wang-dang-doodle all night long (well at least until maybe 11:15 or so).
We had a great crowd again last week, which we really appreciate, and it seemed like everyone had a good time. i don;t know for sure becasue I was busy sweating and trying to not break guitar strings.
But I gotta tell you that its too damn hot up there on that stage.
Can I get a Coke please? Lots of ice. Thanks.
