Socks, Cookbooks and The Big Lebowski

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 28, 2011

One day, my sock fetish was bound go public. And because of this Q&A from the great Wantist site, it now is. Wantist is one of those sites where you end up wanting almost everything – the list of product is so well curated. The folk who run it have great taste. Or at least […]

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Three Years of Twitter

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 22, 2011

And in those three years, I’ve basically stopped watching television. Sure, a lot of things have happened, some of it huge, but in terms of my media consumption, I stopped watching television. I’m pretty sure Heroes was the last straw. The only things I watch on TV now are sports and, sometimes, major news events […]

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Nice Essay on My Twitter Work

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 21, 2011

Sometimes the oddest thing comes across my Twitter stream. Like this essay. Thoughtful and well reasoned and well-done.

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#WhyIWrite

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

There’s a meme going around Twitter today called #WhyIWrite. Search the hashtag and you’ll see thousands of writers of all stripes answering the question. (I learned of it from reading a tweet by Neil Gaiman.) It’s an odd question, to me at least, because no one really enjoys writing. If a writer tells you they […]

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T 5028

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He was running from a cop and ran off a cliff and then cartoon physics took over and the cop said, Hang in there, and then gravity returned.

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T 5027

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

His belly rumbles and he says, At least I got something from that stupid movie, and then he runs to the toilet and she says, He got too much.

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T 5026

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He lost his dumb job. And he left the office and wandered around town in a morose daze. He walked into an unfamiliar bar. I’m lost, he said.

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T 5025

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

The kids are in bed. He burps and says, I feel fat. She puts the last cup in the dishwasher. That’s because you are, dear, she says, warmly.

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T 5024

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

The doctor shuffled into the waiting room. He looked glum. Tired. The family stood nervously. The doctor sighed. She smelled funny, he said.

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T 5023

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 20, 2011

He got drunk and went into a design shop and said, I’d like to buy a vowel, and the girl at the counter said, Which one? and he got confused.

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