Tag: writing
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Five Seasons of Fellini – Amarcord
Five Seasons of Fellini If you are no longer a teenager, think back to the time when you were. If you were to pick one significant year from that…
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Silk Road Vagabond – Marco Polo
Going around the world hasn’t always been as easy as it is today. In fact, the great explorers of the past often suffered great hardships to see distant lands. One…
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Welcome to the Liberators
Welcome to the Liberators “Welcome to the Liberators!” It is painted on a brick wall as Antonia and her daughter walk into a Dutch village that Antonia grew up…
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Looking for Richard – A Film Review
Looking for Richard and Looking for Relevance by CD Damitio It would seem that one of the major tasks facing filmmakers and story tellers of all stripes today is to…
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A Memento of Henri Bergson – Christopher Nolan’s Memento
A Memento of Henri Bergson 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…
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Revolutionary Vagabond – Che Guevara
World travel was important to Che. Sure, you see his image on all kinds of clueless college kids t-shirts and hoodies and maybe later he was responsible for thousands of…
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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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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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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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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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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: 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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A Lit-Nerd Road Trip Adventure through the Beautiful Northeast USA
If you are a nerd like me, pack up the car and embark on the great American road trip to discover the great American novel!
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The Week in Review for July 19, 2020
This is my weekly update for the week ending July 19, 2020. I’m sure I missed a lot of important stories so please feel free to comment on them below.…
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Lake Como, Italy – A Beautiful Daytrip from Bergamo or Milan
Lake Como – one of the most beautiful lakes in the world and a crown jewel of Italian masterpieces.
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Fire on the Mountain – Visiting the Ancient Chimera in Olympos, Turkey
The Chimera finally was defeated by Bellerophon, with the help of Pegasus, at the command of King Iobates of Lycia. Since Pegasus could fly, Bellerophon shot the Chimera from the…
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10 Hilarious Reasons Not to Travel
“You are not here!” There are plenty of reasonable reasons not to travel, but in my years of writing about travel and working in hospitality, I’ve also come across some…
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The Glaoui (Glaoua) Palace in Fes, Morocco
It’s not as well kept as the Batha Museum, not as grand and glorious as the Karaouyine Mosque, not as stinky or touristic as the famous Fez tanneries, but there…
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The Enchanted Forest Theme Park of Oregon #FlashbackFriday
Back in 2016, I finally had the chance to take my wife and daughter to The Enchanted Forest. A wonderfully quirky and crumbling roadside attraction that still doesn’t charge you…
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How Technology Wastes Time – Real World Example of An Hour Destroyed
I woke up an hour and a half ago ready to write a review of a book I just finished reading. I came downstairs, made a pot of coffee, and…
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The Regulated Society
This one made it into the book. I wrote it in 2017, after a conversation with a friend who couldn’t see why anyone would regulate her right to carry a…
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Coffee Shop Crush
John wore a yellow hat and that made him stand out. He’d read about the idea in Lady’s Man Magazine and when he looked in the mirror, the effect was…
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CD Damitio’s Predictions for 2015
Once again – I’ll try my hand at predicting the future – and once again I’d like to start by telling you that if you want to know the future…
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