T 5524

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

Then the laughter died down and he said, I want to eat a club sandwich in a club, and the laughter started up again and everyone felt smart.

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T 5523

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

She made red Jello and she was quite proud of this and he said, Are you for real? and she took that as a sign and so she removed her blouse.

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T 5522

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He called and said, I’m getting drunk don’t wait up, and she said, I’m pregnant, and he said, That doesn’t change things, but he got drunker.

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T 5521

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He hears the car before he sees it and it flies over his head and crashes into his truck and he runs up to it and says, What’s the big idea?

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T 5520

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

What makes us more animal, sex or pooping? the boy asks. He gets sent to the principal. But she’s a good principal. She gives the boy candy.

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T 5519

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He builds up the courage to say, I love you, and she asks, Are you being ironic? and he says, Why would you think that? and she says, Oh my.

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T 5518

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

The old man at the end of the bar says, You play the game and sometimes you lose, and the young woman beside him says, But sometimes you win.

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T 5517

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 8, 2012

He opened the door and sneezed; he knew she’d brought her cat over without asking. He sneezed again. Then she laughed and said, You’re cute.

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Twitter on the Radio

By Arjun Basu | Published: May 7, 2012

I recently did an interview with CKUT here in Montreal. You can link to the interview here. I appear at the 43 minute mark (approximately). The interview runs for about 12 minutes. I talk about Twitter, about writing and social media, about the changes in writing and The Writer brought about by the immediacy of social media, and the new challenges all creators face in a world where everyone is a creator and everything is free and where everything still requires PR at some level. When does that change?

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A Vision of the New World

By Arjun Basu | Published: April 30, 2012

For those who couldn’t make last week’s Shindig, here are two screenshots from the event. The first one shows me and some extremely bored looking people waiting around for the reading to start. (My kid is in the screenshot along the bottom.) The second one shows a screenshot from the Q&A session, really toward the end of the entire affair. (I’m speaking with Andy Breeden from Florida.) By the amount of people online, you can see a lot of viewers bled off after my computer crashed (I wrote about the event itself here).

I would do the Shindig again, if only for all the people who couldn’t make it the first time. Perhaps I will. Until then, we can (and should) contemplate the aesthetics of the virtual book reading….

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