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Siri Parody Ad

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 18, 2011

Am I a MILF I helped write this. I’m pretty sure one of my jokes made it in. Maybe. Unless you don’t find it funny. Then NONE of my jokes made it in here. For real. Click on the link.

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Meeting Salman Rushdie on the Toronto Island Ferry

By Arjun Basu | Published: November 3, 2011

No really. Oddest thing. He was on the ferry in the morning (arriving in Toronto from New York) and then again in the afternoon (leaving). We weren’t sharing flights. (for those who don’t know Toronto, the city has a second airport just offshore on an island in Lake Ontario.) He was in town checking in […]

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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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Kinda Neat To Be Grouped with Lynne Tillman and Ford Madox Ford

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 17, 2011

The audiobook for Squishy has been grouped in a Literary Fiction Collection with some really fantastic books. The more I think about this grouping, the more I feel like a bit of an imposter. Who invited me to this party?!?  

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I Want Some Senate Seats

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 15, 2011

Very shortly, the number of people following me on Twitter will surpass the population of the province of Prince Edward Island. At that time, I’d like to get their Senate seats. Surely, I can do some good for my fellow Canadians with not one but four seats. For those who don’t know anything about Canada’s […]

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Making the World A (More) Beautiful Place

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 6, 2011

Did Steve Jobs change the world? Of course he did. As a dedicated Mac user my entire adult life, he certainly changed my life. And as someone typing this on a MacBook Pro, with my iPhone and iPad close by, yes, “I’m a Mac.” But his transformation of the world is about more than just […]

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Books Love You

By Arjun Basu | Published: October 2, 2011

I can’t tell whether or not this is creepy. It’s a nice idea. I’m just not sure I want to watch the movie.

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