Author: CD Damitio
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The Contents of the Can – Looking at your Trash
The Contents of the Can by CD Damitio When’s the last time that you actually took a few minutes at what is going into your garbage? Has it been a while…
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Vago (CD) Damitio – Extraordinary Free Vagabond Radical
Vago Damitio is the master of Micro Victories. He is a free vagabond radical having fun and pissing on the accepted and the expected. .
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Life’s Aspirations
When I was a child – I wanted to be one of those writers that lives an adventurous life, then locks themselves away for a year while writing the perfect…
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What Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks of Wandering and Wondering in 2012
📖 Found in the book: This post is part of the story told in Not My Morocco by CD Damitio — a memoir of love, madness, and two years in…
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You Stick to the Internet
This one made it into the book. I wrote it in 2012, though the kernel of it came from a dream that felt like it was from much earlier —…
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Putting Down Modern Expectations
What are the modern expectations? They’re not so different from the pre-modern expectations. – Owning your own home is the key to your security – Having a steady and secure…
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A Brief History of the Mass Media
The history of mass media is long and complex. It stretches back beyond the dawns of recorded history to the people that figured out that they could reach a larger…
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Gun Control is My Right, Not Yours
I wrote this editorial article for The Horizon. The Student Newspaper of Whatcom Community College in November of 1996. My views haven’t changed 16 years later. GUN CONTROL OR NO…
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A Random Seattle Bender
A Random Bender in Seattle I was bored, not knowing what to do with my time, so I settled down in my bus and read Oscar Zeta Costa’s “Autobiography of…
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The Night I Decided to Sell My Guns
As I, and the world, try to come to terms with the murder of a bunch of kindergarten students in the USA, I think back to the night that decided…
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Mathilda: The Hot Insurance Adjuster
Another true story from the year 2000. I’m still baffled by this one. I just don’t understand what the hell was going on. In the year 2000, I lived…
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A Typical Greyhound Busride – Farters and Axe Murderers
I’ve heard they’ve gotten better but here was what a bus ride on a Greyhound looked like in 1998. The bus ride was fairly uneventful. The first person to sit…
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Thoughts on Living in a Car and Crime in America
For those who don’t know – I used to live in a VW Bus in various places. It was fine in Hawaii but living in a car in Mainland America…
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Memories of the Food Bank
There was a time back in the 90’s when I would look forward each week to visiting the Food Bank in Bellingham, Washington. Artisanal breads, whole salmon, whole turkies at…
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Remembering the Day the USA began to Die
This one made it into the book. I wrote the original account in 2000, on election night — the Gore-Bush election, the one that ended with Florida and Supreme Court…
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The Dogcatcher Cometh
Here’s Shakra in the window of my first and favorite VW bus – The bus’s name was Belle. Picture taken near Juneau, Alaska Another true life excerpt from the current…
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Me and God when I was a Child
I wrote this quite a long while back. I incorporated it into the 2009 version of Slackville Road which you can find here. It hasn’t made the cut in the rewrite…
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The Keys of the Riad – Done! I’m a Nanowrimo Winner
Just in case you were wondering where I got the inspiration for the novel I just finished…here you go. Great feeling to be done. Lots of work still to…
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An Invitation from the Madman
I’d like to invite readers to join me for a thousand and one Sundays of reading and writing. I’ll write if you’ll read. If you’d like to join me, you…
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Announcing My Forthcoming Novel…. The Keys of the Riad
This is a funny thing to do, but it’s nice to have a blog that’s all about me so I can do this kind of balderdash. I’m still in Marseilles…
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My Latest Book – Douchebags, Fags, and Hags – now available
I’ve finally published my latest novel. Douchebags, Fags, and Hags. You can find it for kindle here or in epub format here. Here’s the cover: This novel was a labor…
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My Welcome to the Blogville House in Bologna, Italy
I was fortunate to get a detailed introduction to not only the house and the organizers of Blogville, Bologna , but also to some of the delicious products and treats.
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Wisdom for Sophia – A poem for my daughter
Adventures to inspire my child, your child, Jules Verne, National Geographic, Sir Richard Burton’s stories – my stories. Tans-Siberian railroad – Russian steppes Race nomads – throat singers of Tuva.…
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Fez, Morocco – The Festival of World Sufi Culture 2012
The 6th Edition of the Festival of Sufi Culture will take the stage this April . From Thursday the 12th to Saturday 14th a series of round tables, conferences and…
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Beyond the Hotels – Big City Homestays in South America
Unlike hostals, hotels, and hospedajes, a homestay is often a rented room in a private home.
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