Author: CD Damitio
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Meliptimous Taggle and Other Tales of Ill Repute
Some names sound like they mean something. Some stories have no right to be as good as they are. Fourteen stories written in caves, on Google+, in Morocco, on the…
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Crypto Confidential
He co-founded a cryptocurrency. It went to a $1.8 million market cap. Then it didn’t. An inside account of the wildest years in crypto history.
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Not My America: A Stranger in My Strange Land
CD Damitio came back to America after five years living abroad — ready to believe the country he’d left might still be the one he’d imagined as a kid reading…
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Not My Morocco: My Maghrebi Life
He converted to Islam for 300 dirham. He got engaged to a woman he couldn’t quite reach. He lived in a medina apartment where the gas leaked and the sewer…
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The Fucking People
When the last Bodhisattva gave up on humanity, the universe screamed. Then everything went sideways. An apocalyptic novel that asks: is humanity actually worth saving?
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Rough Living: Tips and Tales of Vagobond
Before ‘van life’ was a hashtag, CD Damitio was living it. In 1996, he traded his TV and VCR for a broken-down VW bus and moved in.
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Vagabonds: Getting Lost Is the Point
Some people travel. Some people wander. And then there are the ones who can’t stop — the ones who gave up everything just to keep moving, who built their lives…
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The Princess and the Vagobond
Once upon a time, on a beautiful island farther from anywhere than anywhere, a princess met a reckless vagabond and they fell madly in love. Then her evil uncle shipped…
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Future World 2323
Strange Technology. Forgotten Magic. Epic Romance. A Future on the Edge of Collapse. Seven tales from a world rearranged by nuclear war, global upheaval, and tectonic catastrophe.
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The Bed, the Machine, and the Cover
Some years ago I slept in a bed in a stone house in France that William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac had both slept in, separately, decades before me. The…
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The Keys to the Riad
Colette, the quintessential New York ‘it-girl,’ discovers a set of ancient North African keys — but what she doesn’t know is that they come with ownership of an ancient mansion…
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Hasan i-Sabah: The Founding of the Sultanate of Baboob
While the world argues about Iran, here’s what they don’t teach you: the most dangerous man in Persian history didn’t lead armies. He built a system.
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Arthur Rambeau, Arthur Rembo, Arthur Rambo — How to Spell the Name of the Most Misread Poet in English
Arthur Rambeau? Arthur Rembo? Arthur Rambo? It’s Rimbaud — and he’s worth spelling right. A review of Illuminations by the most misread poet in English.
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The Nuns of Baboob
Martin Hutchins had three things going for him: a worthless degree from UNLV, five thousand dollars from the craps table, and a case of Royal Herpes from a Contessa he…
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A Very Good Novel: Coronavirus
It was May 2020. The world was in lockdown. CD Damitio was in Honolulu, watching everything collapse in real time — and he wrote this book while it was happening.
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Liminal Travel: The Spaces In Between
Most travel books tell you where to go and what to do when you get there. This one tells you how to disappear into the spaces in between.
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Sly Doubt of Uranus: The History of a Lovable Asshole
Yes, it’s about Uranus. All of it. Every planet, moon, city, and institution is named after the parts of the human body that proper society pretends don’t exist. You’re going…
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The Ghosts of Intimacy
Every woman Leroy ever loved is waiting for him at his mother’s door. He spent his whole life running. Now he’s coming back.
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Petshitter: A Silicon Valley Romance
Two people. Two catastrophically bad names. One blind date. What happens next will change Silicon Valley — and maybe the internet.
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Powerful Baoism Lessons – Do Rox
Do Rox is Baoism’s second principle, and it doesn’t offer permission for anything you’ve already decided. It asks something specific: what are you making?
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Is Running A Solid Business While Traveling Really Possible?
Source Location – CC0 License If you’re a business owner who wants to travel, you might be wondering whether it’s really possible to run a solid business while doing…
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The Last Vagobond Post
Dear Vagobond Fam, After more than two decades of writing, creating, and wandering under the name Vagobond, the time has come to lay this identity to rest. This isn’t a…
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Thoughts on Returning Home to Japan – Spring Begins in Hokkaido
I find myself in such a strange place. I don’t mean in terms of where I physically am – I’m back in Otaru, Japan at my house, Satoshi Manor. I…
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The Digital Divide – A Week in Shanghai and Hong Kong – China Rising
It went way too fast. I met great people, had some amazing adventures, and also had my mind blown on more than one occasion. Full disclaimer, my time was spent…
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