Xpat Magazine February, 2006
Taiwan’s relig
ious affiliations: mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%, Christian 4.5%, other 2.5%
Population of China: 1.3 billion
From the Desk 06.02
interesting
From the Desk 05.12
Xpat Magazine December, 2005
Speed of winds from hurricane Katrina (mph): 160
Speed of winds from Supertyphoon Haitang (mph): 145
Proportion of New Orleans underwater at the time of writing: 80%
The Exploding Dog: An Interview with Sam Brown
Illustrations by Sam Brown
Xpat Magazine September, 2006
I first found the website www.explodingdog.com because my roommate had a hilarious wallpaper on her laptop of a stick-figure hippo and I asked her where it came from. Explodingdog.com is a “semi-collaborative” art project in which random visitors send Sam Brown captions for drawings and he draws them and posts them on his website. His simply drawn stick-figure interpretations of the captions range from straightforward to philosophical to hilarious. His personality is equally so, as you will see in this interview.
My Pop
Published under the pseudonym Salvatore Paradisio
Xpat Magazine June, 2006
My pop, or my pappy as I like to call him, had open-heart surgery last fall. He had, not one, but two triple bypasses. Then, about a month ago, he returned to the hospital for a pacemaker installation.
During his latter visit to the hospital he didn’t hear from me. In fact, he hasn’t heard from me since.