Warning: This is not for the faint hearted. Contains graphic reality. (The site below and the views expressed on it are not those of me, the bloggers here, or www.fukn.us …. I provide the link for your critical assessment only and primarily because the brutal pictures tell more of a story than anything I have…
Author: CD
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
Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia
Quickly written…last weeks is now posted down the page a bit…semester is nearing an end… cd Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia by Chris Damitio While watching the food channel the other day, I came across a disturbing thing. Initially, what caught my attention was a bald man in a southern China marketplace looking at…
A Memento of Henri Bergson
A Memento of Henri Bergson by Chris Damitio You may think that you are free, but you are not. You may think that each action you take is an unrestrained choice, but it is not. You ( and everyone else) are incarcerated in a prison that controls every action you take and every decision you…
Gunman kills 32+ on Virginia Tech Campus
If you’ve never considered gun control, maybe the fact that a madman killed at least 32 people this morning at a quiet college campus will convince you. I agree with the old adage that guns don’t kill people, people kill people…however, guns make it a hell of a lot easier. If the United States had…
Women and Power in Southeast Asia
I feel a need to apologize for these Southeast Asian papers. The problem with them is that they usually involve a couple of hundred pages of reading and have to be read and written within less than a week. Because of the time, there is not enough time to write a paper that adequately treats…
Land of the Lost
I’ve figured out the whole lost mythology… Marshall Will and Holly are the Degroots, Ben is the inbred Son, the purge was the killing of the dinosaurs and sleezestacks, and now…an airplane is there… cd
Thundar the Barbarian
Did anyone else love this cartoon as much as I did? I forgot the disaster that destroyed Earth happened in 1994. And later when I heard about a band called Ookla the Mok, I had no idea it was Thundar’s buddy…nice stroll on memory lane… cd
Don Ho is dead
HONOLULU – Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76. He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said. Ho had suffered with heart problems for the past several years, and had a pacemaker installed last…
A nice little song I found on YouTube
Recommended Book. You need to read this to understand Iraq, empire, and the US.
I just finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins (Thanks Conrad and Amanda!) If you want to know why 911 happened, why Americans are in Iraq, and how the trans national corporations are in total control of the US government and the world, you need to read this book. If you are…