Tag: writing
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Good Friends You’ve Never Met
This is an excerpt from the Original Slackville Road. It didn’t make it into the re-release. Here’s the thing…it’s a true story. It happened to me and a buddy in…
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Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia
Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia by CD Damitio While watching the food channel the other day, I came across a disturbing thing. Initially, what caught my attention was a…
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Tourism, Women, and Power in Southeast Asia
Women and Power in Southeast Asia by CD Damitio Society is a complex organism that reflects the diverse use of power by the individuals and groups within it. Sometimes obvious…
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Like Sands Through the Hourglass
Like Sands Through the Hourglass…. by CD Damitio No matter who a person is or where they may be growing up, there is no doubt about the fact that they…
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Living in a Not Material World
Living in a Not-Material World by VagoDamitio In looking at the material world around us, it is easy to suppose that everyone sees the same things, the same way, the…
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I am Disturbed
I am disturbed that whatever art I make will probably be used to sell something at some point in the future. This is only true if my art is deemed…
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The Time of Rice
Time for Rice. Rice Time. The Rice for Time. Timing Rice. by CD Damitio It is easy to forget that time is a human construction. Not to say that things…
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Waist to Hip Ratio in Male to Female Attraction
Like Sands Through an Hourglass Figure by CD Damitio In the battle for the hearts of minds of future anthropologists, behaviorists, and popular science buffs, two competing camps have risen…
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If you want to fight the power, you have to know what power is
If You Want to Fight the Power, You Have to Know What Power Is by CD Damitio Throughout the recorded history of humankind, and presumably even prior to that, human…
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I love Fairhaven
I wrote this little blurb for the local Bellingham newspaper The Every Other Weekly back in 2003. I love Fairhaven by CD Damitio I absolutely love where I live. Mountains,…
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How Mass Media Shapes Personal Identity
This one made it into the book. I wrote the original version in 2008, during a period when I was living in Hawaii and taking anthropology coursework while also watching…
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Badjao : Sama Dilaut of Tawi-Tawi Sea Gypsies
The Sama Dilaut of Tawi Tawi: Facing Change in a Modern World by CD Damitio Throughout the world, there is a huge danger that modernization and globalization will destroy irreplaceable…
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Is Human Nature Anti Nature?
This one made it into the book. I wrote it in 2008, for an anthropology course, though it ended up being a genuine argument rather than just an academic exercise.…
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Happy New Year – 2013 – The Year of Completed Projects and Fun
My duty is to complete my mission and have fun doing it! Happy New Year to all of you! 2013 is going to be incredible. Even better than 2012 and…
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The Contents of the Can – Looking at your Trash
The Contents of the Can by CD 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…
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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…
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You Stick to the Internet
This one made it into the book. I wrote it in 2012, though the kernel of it came from a dream that felt like it was from much earlier —…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mathilda: The Hot Insurance Adjuster
Another true story from the year 2000. I’m still baffled by this one. I just don’t understand what the hell was going on. In the year 2000, I lived…
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A Typical Greyhound Busride – Farters and Axe Murderers
I’ve heard they’ve gotten better but here was what a bus ride on a Greyhound looked like in 1998. The bus ride was fairly uneventful. The first person to sit…
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Thoughts on Living in a Car and Crime in America
For those who don’t know – I used to live in a VW Bus in various places. It was fine in Hawaii but living in a car in Mainland America…
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