For those of you following my quest to trade my old veriflex skateboard for a house, the trade for four medium size moving boxes full of unopened Pez has fallen through…. so to sum up….I traded my old veraflex skateboard ….to Bryan Dodd, an artist living in Georgia who is using the skateboard in his…
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CD Damitio is a Honolulu based storyteller and #Web3 pioneer. Editor of Vagobond Magazine and author of books that focus on the places where technology, travel, political, and the religious/philosophical meet. http://vagobond.cent.co | http://vagobond.com @vagobond
Mr. Beavers Teahouse Puppet Theatre and now Adult Muppets
A few years ago, as hard as it may be to believe, I was wearing a Beaver suit around Bellingham Washington doing off the wall stunts for The Morning Deal, a morning radio show on 92.9 FM, Independent Rock. I was the producer and as such it was my job to take on any and…
The Rapture is like the world of fashion…One day you're in, the next day you're out–Auf Wiedersehen!
The Reverend’s parishioners are always asking him about the rapture, now that we have so many wars and rumors of wars, as well as seemingly unnatural natural disasters. The fact is the Reverend is usually working on a gut shot straight, or praying for the last card to make a flush, so he invokes the…
Forget Katrina…China is about to be hit by Super Typhoon Saomai…Half million flee
BEIJING (Reuters) – More than half a million Chinese have fled their homes in the path of a super typhoon, the strongest to threaten the country in 50 years, as it churned relentlessly toward the southeast coast on Thursday. one of three storms to have hit East Asia in the past few days, has already…
Green pigment spins chip promise
An unpopular pigment used by artists in the 18th Century could lead to more energy efficient, faster computers. Cobalt green, as the dye is known, has been tested by a US team who believe it could be used in “spintronic” devices. Spintronics involves manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do useful computational work. Cobalt…
Lt. Watada May Face Court Martial
I heard Watada speaking at length the other day on KTUH, our uncompromised college radio station on Oahu. His arguments were compelling. Consider that at the time Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded, most of the country supported the invasions, mainly because they were being decieved by Bush and Co., consider that most of the country…
Gnarly Mamas – The Spanish Version
When I was a kid, our gang of kids used to play a game we called Gnarly Mamas. It was a stupid game. The idea was to go out at night where there were icy roads and stand in the street letting cars get as close to you as possible before diving off the road…
Dubai man-made island nears completion
This is amazing. As the oceans dissolve amidst global warming we can fill in the area with leisure capitals. We are terra-forming ala star trek. Now if we can figure out how to keep from killing ourselves or poisoning the planet, we can really begin to go somewhere. Check it out here cd Dubai man-made…
Mt. Olomana- Matterhorn of Oahu
Today I got together with my friends Ryan and Jessie and we climbed Mt. Olomana in Kailua. Stuart Ball describes it in “The Hikers Guide to Oahu” as “Oahu’s Version of the Matterhorn.” It is a 6-mile roundtrip, ungraded hike with an elevation gain of 1600 feet. There are three peaks. The access is through…
Hushed puppies at BOW WOW BISTRO: At Deco's Dog Cafe, you and your best friend both eat, but he never picks up the check.
I think it’s interesting what people eat…apparently dog is still good food in parts of Switzerland too. These days dogs are treated like an adored member of the family in Seoul where they were once raised to feed the hungry stomach of their masters. Yet dog meat is so popular among the Korean people even…