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Joshua Samuel Brown

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The Most Far Out Place You’ve Already Visited

A surrealistic journey through IKEA

Sep 25, 2024

In this illustration by Dark Horse illustrator David Lee Ingersoll, travel writer Joshua Samuel Brown clutches a rectangular box holding two extended plant necks ending in Venus flytrap-like mouths. The author looks confused as a swirling pattern extends from his head.

Sep 25, 2024

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How Not to Get to Wenshan Hot Spring

Nothing says Carpe Diem like a soak in a thermal waters at the bottom of a cliff in the Pacific Rim’s most earthquake-prone area.

Oct 8, 2024

An Orange puppet with googly eyes and a polka-dot vest sticks out over Taiwan’s Taroko Gorge. Behind him an orange and red bridge spans the chasm. Behind this, a pagoda and the Chinese goddess Kuanyin sit among the mountains.

Oct 8, 2024

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Travel Memoirs

Climbing Forbidden Mountain

I bribe my way into a Chinese nature preserve closed to foreigners

Aug 1, 2024

Three farmers on the road in Southern China’s Guangxi province. One is balancing two baskets filled with vegetables on pole. Fang-shaped karst-limestone hills in the background are found primarily in Southern China and Northern Vietnam.

Aug 1, 2024

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Entropies

A Journey of Unspeakable Horror Through Quaintest Vermont

Doomed souls, screaming skulls and organic cheeses

Aug 27, 2024

The author’s face peers out from an unknowable number of human skulls peering out in eternal horror from a pyramid of human skulls as a friendly local displays local cheese in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Aug 27, 2024

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Catness

Taming our Punk Rock Tom Cat

We adopt a feral feline only to discover he has a backstory — and family — the next block over.

Jul 7, 2024

Taming our Punk Rock Tom Cat

Jul 7, 2024

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The Memoirist

Confessions of a Sweatshop Inspector

An idealist’s journey into the human-rights monitoring industry

1d ago

Two rows of industrial sewing machines extending backwards in a factory in China. The first two machines are being operated by a man and a woman who are smiling as they work.

1d ago

Spinning Karma: Mea Culpa

An Author apologizes for his Buddhist Comedy

Feb 16

A three-faced meditator sits above a yin-yang symbol comprised of the flags of America and China backed by a silhouette of Taiwan. A play on the multi-faced Buddha statues found around the world, the three faces show looks of joy, serenity and fear.

Feb 16

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Gonzo Sonneteer

Serve the People

The East Is Red

Jan 19

Chairman Mao holding forth a steaming bowl filled with dumplings. Image by http://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator

Jan 19

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Travel Memoirs

The Winding Road to Smangus

An indigenous village balances autonomy with tourism

Jan 7

Three people walking through a bamboo forest in the mountains of Taiwan. One is a man wearing a green jacket and purple knitted hat, and the other two are women. All appear to be smiling or laughing.

Jan 7

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The Memoirist

Meat Loaf Made Me a Sandwich

Rock & Roll Legend serves wayward child a meal

Dec 16, 2024

A sweaty man in theatrical shirt and suspenders stares intensely, his eyes bulging as if being forced to make a descision of lifelong impact.

Dec 16, 2024

Joshua Samuel Brown

Joshua Samuel Brown

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Traveler Writer and Author of 16 books including a dozen Lonely Planet guides, two short story collections, a dual-authored travelogue and a Buddhist Comedy.

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