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Spinning Karma: An Apology

  To celebrate the release of the audiobook version of Spinning Karma –  my politically-charged Buddhist comedy novel, first published in 2020 – I’d like to take a moment to apologize to Spinning Karma’s future readers and listeners.  Which is

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The Milky Teat of Serendipity

Through Taipei streets I cycle erratically, in between guidebook gigs and en route to an interview for a writing gig for which I am vastly overqualified. The trip gives me time for some high speed meditation, my mind awash with

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Quarantine List: YouTube Channels

A list of some of my favorite YoutTube Channels to help get us through PERMANENT STAYCATION 2020!

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Fear and Masks Redux (Let’s Hope the Coronavirus is as Kind as SARS)

Josambro 2003

Reports are trickling in on the Coronavirus that’s shutting down China and threatening to be either the next black plague (death toll 50 million), the next Spanish Flu of 1918 (death toll also 50 million, only we had cameras and

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How I landed my first Lonely Planet gig

How do I get a job with Lonely Planet?

How I landed my first gig with Lonely Planet: A mildly embarrassing tale of youthful bravado by Joshua Samuel Brown.

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Influential Mothers in My Life

The Alien Mother

Seeing as it’s mother’s day I thought I’d relate a tale from the early eighties concerning two influential mothers from my childhood. This story is a reprint, having run in Funny Times a few years back. Of course, it’s old

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