An
American in Asia:

His Quest for Cosmic Truth

(or at least a Decent Espresso)

Jeffrey Wonderful lives up to his name. He would give away bumper stickers that said "My Other Boyfriend is Jeffrey Wonderful". He would ask people to send him love letters and he'd publish them his own 'zine. This brilliant man was all of 19 years old in this photo.

Jeffrey Studebaker has been (in no particular order) a SE Asian correspondent for a Singaporean travel magazine, a teacher, consultant and translator in Japan, a guitarist with the band, Swoon 23 in every city of the US of A, a coffee roaster in Seattle, a bike messenger in Portland, a marine fire system repairman in Seattle, an osteoporosis clinic researcher in Providence, a mental ward counsellor on the night shift in Portland, a brief success in New York, and he has now returned to the US after nearly a decade in Asia to pursue a publishing career.