T 5706

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

She stopped talking, her point made. He said, In the future I’m going to be beautiful. But she knew there would never be a future like that.

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T 5705

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 11, 2012

First he wrote books, and then he did seminars and he got very rich telling people how to live. He’s happy. At least his third wife says so.

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LOL!

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 7, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81G-fI_oi8

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Two Weeks of Nothing: Random Thoughts After a Relaxing Vacation

By Arjun Basu | Published: August 6, 2012

Back from vacation. From possibly the most relaxing vacation of my life. You want to know what made it relaxing? Well, lots of things. But I stayed in a place with no cell reception. No internet. No internet will set you free. There was a television but I hardly watched any of it. I wasn’t […]

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Vacation Notice

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 20, 2012

Not that I’ve been posting much recently. Life really does get in the way. And I’ve said it before but I’m not going to post for postings’ sake. I don’t care what that does for my search or “findability” – those people that tell you to post to your blog regularly are giving bad advice. […]

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Another Drunken Paper Puts Me on A List Made Up of People Who Tweet

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 8, 2012

Pity the Brits. Losing the Euro on penalty kicks (surely the most dastardly invention ever devised to solve a sporting event). Suffering through a summer of epic rain (no really, we all joke about the British weather but this year’s rain is breaking their records). Preparing for the Olympics with that English mixture of fatalism […]

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The Story of the (My) Novel So Far

By Arjun Basu | Published: July 7, 2012

I tried to hit a home run. In that sense, it’s hard to find blame. I perhaps should not have tried to swing for the fences. Maybe I should have settled for a double. A solid single even. But I tried to hit a home run. They’re so much sexier. What am I talking about? […]

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Mursi Mursi Me: On Blowback, Self-Interest, Idealism, Long Weekends, Pain. And Bourbon

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 25, 2012

The world is disappointing. It almost always is. Sure there is beauty but overall, it’s disappointing. (The human world. Let’s make that clear. The world itself is stunning. Most of the time. Except on the drive between Montreal and Toronto. That’s the world’s worst drive.) It’s more disappointing for optimists. Or most disappointing. It’s probably […]

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More Random Thoughts (said with seriousness, and reverb)

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 20, 2012

1. I’m tired of people telling others what to do. Professionally. There are so many how-to experts. And then you achieve some kind of fame doing something (and that fame is usually completely deserved) and so you translate that success into telling others how to do what you just did. Because it was so easy? […]

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Random Thoughts About Clouds, Dancing Writers, TV, Boomers, Beer and Serena’s Butt

By Arjun Basu | Published: June 10, 2012

Thoughts generally are random. That’s what makes them magical. Or at least interesting. The random nature of thought, or what some of us might call stream of consciousness, leads to the difficult brilliance of the likes of Joyce and Borges, or the hilarious (but studied) non-sequiturs of Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin. Wait. I think watching […]

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