Category: Ink Dribblers
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Slaughterhouse Five (the film)- A Review
Slaughterhouse Five (the film)- A Review by CD Damitio This wasn’t a terrible film. It seemed to stay fairly true to the book, however, they did a fairly bad job…
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John Steinbeck – California Vagabond
Steinbeck wrote of pirates, hobos, Mexican revolutionaries, drunkards, knights, kings, farmers and other unsavory types that have been described by the world as vagabonds. He was accused of being a…
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Manhattan – a review
Manhattan A Review By CD Damitio Again, a movie I thought I knew something about but was completely off on. Manhattan is a sort of cynical and sort of sweet…
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What I’m Reading – Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Yesterday, I finished reading (for the 3rd time) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It’s a worthy book and recommended for anyone and everyone – even if it sometimes…
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Good Night and Good Luck a Review by CD Damitio
Good Night and Good Luck a review by CD Damitio It’s funny how I have so many preconceived notions about films I haven’t seen. Now that I’ve seen it, I…
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Doomsday – A review
A film review by CD Damitio If you have any respect for my taste in movies…you will probably lose it if you see Doomsday. I caught Neil Marshall’s latest film…
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Reassemblage – A Review of From the Firelight to the Screen
>Deconstructing the Mind’s Preconceptions by CD Damitio What Do You SEE???? This is the question that is asked in the Trinh T. Minh-ha experimental documentary Reassemblage. On the surface level,…
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Nomad Vagabond – Genghis Khan
Traveling round the world doesn’t usually involve conquest of foreign lands but for Temujin, also known as Genghis Khan, conquest was probably just a means of travel.
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Do the Riot Thing – A Review of Twilight Los Angeles
Do the Riot Thing- A Look at Race, Riots, Inequality, and Morality by CD Damitio Just about anyone can tell you how it feels to be overcharged, ripped off, short…
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The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man
Here is a link to some excerpts from the Geertz essay Summary of the Main Points of “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man” –…
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Obasuteyama – Film Review
by CD Damitio It’s never easy to become old. Whether one is looking for a job at Walmart to supplement social security in the USA or attempting to define one’s…
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Jack London – Prince of the Tramps, Patron of Vagabonds
Jack London’s life reads like an adventure novel. From being a vagrant to a pirate to working in the gold fields to learning to surf from Duke Kahanamoku, he lived…
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Waking Life – A Review
Waking Life – A Review by CD Damitio I remember an incident that happened when I was about five years old. My father was lying on his back in a grassy…
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What I’m Reading: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
I’m a fan of R. Buckminster Fuller and his work. One of the greatest things I’ve ever read was his admission in Nine Chains to the Moon (which is how…
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Film Review: The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu)
Shattering the Rules: Deconstructing the The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu) by CD Damitio The Family Game (Kazoku Geemu), a film by Yoshimitsu Morita, is, on the surface, the story of…
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What I’m Reading – The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet
I don’t read as much as I used to, but I still usually have about a dozen books going at a time – they just don’t turn as frequently as…
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Book Review: The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss – The Boys Big Book of Bragging and Party Tricks
The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss Review by CD Damitio I hate Tim Ferriss.*** I…
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What I’m Reading: The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
My quest to understand the world we live in continues to focus on capital and finance with The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson, like another book I recently read…
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What I’m Reading: Number 44 – The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Number 44: The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain Ah, yes. Finally a bit of light reading – Mark Twain…warning, there be spoilers directly ahead…stop now or don’t blame me. I…
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What I’m Reading: Money by D.H. Robertson Cambridge Economic Handbooks
I’ve always had an intellectual fascination with money and when I saw an old book on a shelf called “Money by D.H. Robertson“, my hope was that it would be…
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Shantaram – A Book I was Meant to Read
I want to tell you a story – A little more than a decade ago, I was a tanned beach boy living in Hawaii. I met a tourist girl and…
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Book Review: The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Review by CD Damitio The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau Let me get this out of the way. I like Chris Guillebeau. I haven’t met him in person, but I’ve been…
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Book Review: A Month of Italy – Rediscovering the Art of Vacation
there is much more to this book than the adventures and misadventures of an American family in Italy – instead, this book is about finding the balance in our lives…
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Bond. Commercial James Bond that Sucks Skyfall Balls
The Buddha said it best – desire leads to suffering but it was someone else that said great anticipation leads to great disappointment. I’m not sure who that was, but…
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Amazon just hijacked the word Utopia and turned it from light to dark
I have to admit, I was a little bit excited about watching Amazon’s new show Utopia. First of all, I’m a Utopian – I’ve always been someone who dreams about…
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