The Kamikaze Cowboy

"I took and held on....and then, in Leros, Greece, in 1971 I had my first taste of letting go."
---Dirk Benedict

Chapter 2 discussions :-)

One of our posters suggested that Dirks' book "Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy" be broken down into chapters for discussion.
So here we go with Chapter One: "Floundering Vagabond".

For those who have read the book, you can of course follow along easily enough with your copy at home.  For those who have not, you can find an excerpt on the book page stated in the previous blog entry.  Or perhaps those who have copies can repost their favorite passages from this particular chapter and help along those who have not yet read the book.

Chapter One:  Floundering Vagabond

"It began, prohetically enough, in Hollywood.  A city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.  But this was my first visit."
--Dirk Benedict

Written while on the set of The A-Team in the early 80's and published in 1987, Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy is Dirk's self professed "Manifesto Prostato".  Chronicling his early years in Hollywood, his discovery of prostate cancer at the tender age of 30, and his transformation from "Montana beef eater to Japanese rice chewer".

The book itself is full of intimate details about Dirk's early career, his prostatic cancer and his conversion to the Macrobiotic way of eating.
It's a very insightful book and has been very beneficial in being a ray of hope for other cancer sufferers looking for an alternative ( non medicinal/surgical ) approach to healing.

This book is in print and you can read some of the books *excerpts here:


http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/confess.php

(*book exerpts reprinted with the authors' permission ).

I found a gem hidden away in a backup file that I tucked away a few years ago for future viewing.
After reading it again, I decided to bring it back out and dust it off.

This is an engaging piece that Dirk wrote about growing up in Montana called "Dig Deep..Puppy In Bottom".
Some of it is hysterical, and others thought provoking.

Enjoy  ( and excuse the broken graphics links ) :-)

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/digdeep.html 

If you recognize the fellow in my user pic you'll probably know him best as Dirk Benedict.  Actor.  He's done many things over the past 30 odd years.  

I wanted to create a community that steered more from his acting and more into his writing for he truly is, well, good at it.  Not only that, he's managed to change a few lives by sharing his own.  With two autobiographies under his belt, as well as many articles and essays ( most which have managed to piss off the masses who think "Starbuck" should stick to cigars and not have an opinion about anything ) he's had alot to say.  About alot of things.  Good, bad, and downright ugly.  But for the most part, I think, pretty accurate.

So, if you dare enter this blog looking for Starbuck or What's-His-Face or any of the other cast of various facades he's managed to make a living out of, you're in the wrong place.

If you're here out of curiosity about this self proclaimed "Dangerous Wordsmith" then stick around.

If you wish to participate here, I have but one rule.  Each person has their own opinion and a right to it, BUT, if you're simply  here to taunt and flame and incite other nasties, then there's the door.

That bit of modly stuff settled....shall we carry on?