A FACETIOUS GUIDE

5 days ago
5 min

A Lack of Complaints

Life in Tbilisi continues during the coronavirus. What's restricted, what's not, and what's stockpiled...

Mar 22
4 min

Birjas, Spoons, and Rebellion

The reality of the situation set down upon me perhaps two days ago. The State of Emergency had yet to be declared, read on.

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Shawn Basey

Mar 19
4 min

The Necessity of the Unnecessary

I’ll admit, I wasn’t that worried about the virus at first. It was in distant China and they seemed to be doing quick quarantine measures.

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Shawn Basey

Jan 2
3 min

Bedoba: Your Lucky Day

Today Georgians have a special tradition. It’s the Day of Luck, or “Bedoba”. Whatever you do today is how you’ll spend the rest of the year—

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Shawn Basey

Mar 16, 2019
13 min

On shitposting, the Crusades, the Great Meme War, and extremism

Years ago, I was growing frustrated with Facebook. I wanted to leave it, as it was the source of most of the negativity and hostility in my

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Shawn Basey

Aug 7, 2018
4 min

The Hostile Hospitality of Samegrelo

If you ask Georgians to describe themselves, they’d all start with a single adjective: hospitable (this is probably also true in the state o

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Shawn Basey

Jul 29, 2018
6 min

My Tbilisi neighbors

I’ve often heard from Georgians about how they have good neighbors. They’re friends with their neighbors. Unlike in America where we don’t k

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Shawn Basey

Jul 23, 2018
5 min

Finding a Flat in Tbilisi

For most of my life, I’ve been renting apartments. And I tell you, I get the overwhelming feeling that I’m just peeing into the wind. Wouldn

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Shawn Basey

Jul 16, 2018
5 min

From Prague to Tbilisi

I had to focus on writing my latest book, A Facetious Guide to Prague. I wanted to get it done before I left Prague, so I could double up my

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Shawn Basey

Jun 11, 2017
2 min

Deserving misery

Sitting on the 16th Street Mall in Denver with my parents at Ink Coffee, drinking the otherwise fine coffee out of a paper cup, while watchi

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SAINT FACETIOUS

A FACETIOUS GUIDE

A Lack of Complaints

Birjas, Spoons, and Rebellion

The Necessity of the Unnecessary

Bedoba: Your Lucky Day

On shitposting, the Crusades, the Great Meme War, and extremism

The Hostile Hospitality of Samegrelo

My Tbilisi neighbors

Finding a Flat in Tbilisi

From Prague to Tbilisi

Deserving misery

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