Arjun Basu

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Novelist. Proud Montrealer/Fier Montréalais. Beer league hockey. Habs. Board member Access Copyright. A "Certified Elder.” Brand/content consultant. Host The Full Bleed, a podcast about the future of (print) magazines. https://linktr.ee/arjunbasu

Female Japanese office workers complain about hairy legs of short-wearing male coworkers
A piece of writing stapled to another piece of writing: a key part of the editing process.
An old hardcover of Catcher in the Rye
WIP. Difficulties. Scrawls. Mess.
A raccoon caught stealing seeds from the bird feeder.
A lake surrounded by low verdant hills.
The stupid is endless.
Editing.
Trump and Macron in a grand hall of Versailles.
A crowd of people is shown in black and white. They are watching something but we can't see what it is, nor their faces; we are watching from behind them. Superimposed on the crowd, the word FaiL.
The stupid is endless typed over a photo of the infinite void of the universe. Which is the source of the stupid because it is the source of everything.
Logo of the Montreal Canadiens
Everything is Stupid
About to get the first and therefore best pedicure of my life.
A poster for Mike Monteiro’s virtual book tour to promote his new collection How To Die (And Other Stories).
The logo of the Montreal Victoire. They won their first Walter Cup last night, given to the champions of the PWHL. Plus, their logo rocks.
Habs
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Habs
I am Gen X. I'm telling you this because, well, this is hardly something that is ever relevant to any conversation when, in fact, it is also always relevant to everything. But I just don't talk about it because who cares when I was born, or that we Gen Xers all live in the long and darkest of dark shadow of Boomers, or the loud echo of Millennials, or the annoyingly brash and unknowing living of whatever the other younger generations are called. I'm Gen X, and I just know one thing: there are more of you than there are of me, and there always have been.
habs
Go Habs Go.
A poster that says What The Fuck.
Everything is stupid
The text reads "the stupid is endless" in yellow. In the background, a photo of the universe.
Shit Got Boring.
Prosecutors said Ford allegedly used a phishing scam to obtain login credentials for Apple accounts belonging to NBA and NFL players through a two-pronged approach. He allegedly posed online as a well-known adult film star, offering to send sexually explicit videos to athletes, while simultaneously posing as an Apple customer support representative and asking victims via text message to provide usernames, passwords or multi-factor authentication codes to access the videos that the adult film star persona was trying to send. Dozens of victims were allegedly tricked into providing their account information, allowing Ford to obtain their credit and debit card data and spend thousands of dollars on personal items.
It’s redundant I know. Everything is stupid.
First draft covered in post its.
This is a real name apparently: RELW IEAEG Authorize Organizer Long Island Eats, Arts & Events Group
Vast as space. That’s stupid. It’s endless.
My name is Mr. Tom hiddleston cumberbatch info, and I am writing on behalf of MotionPoint. We are currently seeking experienced freelance professionals—including writers, editors, proofreaders, and PDF retyping specialists—to collaborate with us on upcoming projects.
the stupid is endless
Everything is stupid.
The answer to why the nonfiction book market is struggling is a resounding: “duh.” Escapism may be as big as ever since the pandemic but desire to acquire knowledge is at an all-time low.
On the global stage, this war will likely even further accelerate the global transition to renewable energy. The possible beginning of the long-feared Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a rapid rise in oil prices in the early days of the war have further underscored the inherent unreliability of fossil fuels as a primary energy source. Clean energy is a fundamentally sovereign and resilient technology. It’s hard for an enemy to destroy a solar or wind farm and even harder to cause a price spike in sunlight.
Can’t wait for the era of stupid to end
Wag the dog
Cover of The Observer from the UK
Everything is stupid
Can’t wait for the era of stupid to end
Just the three of us after the show
Why We Make F*cking Magazines: A conversation with the editors of AFM and Elastic Thursday, February 19 Bar de Courcelle Montreal 7-11PM V Buy a copy of Elastic, get a gift Copy Of AFM. Books: Librairie Saint- Henri Books Bao & other bites: Le KiKiD Tunes: Cidoine
Why We Make F*cking Magazines: A conversation with the editors of AFM and Elastic Thursday, February 19 Bar de Courcelle Montreal 7-11PM
In front of Avedon’s photos of Samuel Beckett
Douglas Bell’s Clipper CS-1 Workstation Capsule from 1992 seen at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal
An old Underwood typewriter.
Post its start to assemble on the manuscript between drafts.
Cold in Montreal. But not “cold warning” cold.
Why we Make fucking magazines. A conversation with the editors of AFM and Elastic. Feb 19. bar de Courcelle. 7-11 PM