The Contents of the Can by Vago 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 since you looked? Do you imagine that since you haven’t looked that no one has looked? Well, unless you control every step of the trashing…
Year: 2012
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. .
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 novel while communicating with my agent and publisher – I with the internet and ebooks, things stopped working like that – (I also wanted to…
What Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks of Wandering and Wondering in 2012
In 2012, I wrote a column every Wednesday called What Am I Doing Here? It was an amazing year for me in terms of travel, building my business, and learning how to be a husband and father. I’ve put all 52 weeks into book form below. http://www.vagobond.com/WhatAmIDoingHere2012.pdf What Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks…
You Stick to the Internet
I had a dream that made me remember it the other night. Maybe you guys experience these too. Sometimes I wake up and am like “Okay, awake, dreamed, now on to life” etc. Other times the dreams remain in my brain and most rare of all is when I meet someone powerful and profound and…
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 income makes life enjoyment possible – You have to work now in order to buy your freedom later That last one is the one that…
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 audience through painting a picture on a cave wall than just by telling the story to whatever group happened to be present. While these distant…
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 GUN CONTROL I was on the bus this morning when a heated debate broke out behind me. I often eavesdrop on the public transit system,…
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 a Brown buffalo”, a great book by the Chicano lawyer who gained fame through representing and carousing with Hunter S. Thompson. The overall effect of…
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 me on selling all of my own guns. I’d grown up with guns and I had a 12-gauge shotgun, a few deer rifles, a .22…