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Punk is on page 70 of 256 of Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
I love it when Murderbot talks about us like we're rats: "If there's a way for humans to get into anywhere, they'll get in there." 😂
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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

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Punk is on page 36 of 256 of Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
LOL it's like Martha Wells saw me complaining that my least favorite thing in this series is all the descriptions of walking and was like CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Even Murderbot's complaining.
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Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

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Punk is 64% done with The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3)
This is SO TENSE.
Apr 29, 2026 10:02AM Add a comment
The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3)

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Punk is 3% done with The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3)
"Somewhere along the way, Trey’s mates have filed Lena under Noncombatant Adult, meaning they don’t worry that she’ll squeal on them to the real adults for minor infringements like cursing."
Apr 16, 2026 03:51PM Add a comment
The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3)

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Punk is 93% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"One mark of progress as a writer is reading something and knowing that you couldn’t have written it earlier than you did. I wrote this in 2021, right on time."
Apr 12, 2026 01:44PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 86% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"The rhymes here are nothing special, but the story is my favorite kind of mystery: one where you can’t say exactly where the mystery is, but you sense its presence. Yes, I’m Catholic, why do you ask?"
Apr 08, 2026 01:54PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 82% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
John Darnielle's comments, in total, on To The Headless Horseman: "The original draft of this is more hopeful. That is why we revise."
Apr 03, 2026 05:13PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 79% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
From "Tidal Wave":

It’s not the mutiny that gets written down in the diary
it’s the manifest
forgotten cargo in obsolete measurements
anybody’s guess
Mar 30, 2026 04:37PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is on page 41 of 176 of Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More
I complained too soon! This recipe also calls for caramel. That's got dairy in it, lads. Not a word about how to make your own dairy-free caramel. This book is inexcusably lazy.
Mar 23, 2026 05:10PM Add a comment
Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More

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Punk is on page 41 of 176 of Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More
Many of these recipes call for dairy-free sweetened condensed milk, which isn't exactly easy to find in the store, and even harder to find if you need/want to avoid coconut. You can make it yourself, but she doesn't bother to include a recipe.
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Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More

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Punk is 70% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"That “OK” doesn’t sit with me right, on the page—my whole notion of some songs not really having an existence outside of the air in which they resound finds support there: but not elsewhere in the song, where rhymes like “cabinets” and “chemistry sets” practically cry out to Heaven for somebody to notice. Accordingly, we printed the lyrics in the liner notes in an almost completely illegible font."
Mar 19, 2026 03:26PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is on page 20 of 176 of Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More
Kind of suspicious about this lady's qualifications to publish a cookbook. She's already said you can't make yeasted doughs ahead and put them in the fridge—except you can, putting them in overnight to proof—and then she talks about cutting cold butter into quick breads. That's called a biscuit.
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Craveworthy Baking: Delicious Dairy-Free and Gluten-Free Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and More

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Punk is 66% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"Hence, in a broad sense: all this."
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This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 93% done with Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)
Cohen going full Murderbot.
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Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)

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Punk is 84% done with Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)
I'm sorry I've been neglecting you in favor of Stranger Things fanfiction, Book, but my brains, they are no good, and you are doing a whole Israel/Palestine thing that is too real.
Mar 10, 2026 03:50PM Add a comment
Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)

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Punk is 60% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"I think of albums as usually having a single gravitational point, like a star, around which the other songs orbit like planets. The notional sun will rarely be the single, the big song everybody knows; the gravitational center of an album is the song that contains something of all the others."
Mar 10, 2026 02:43PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 94% done with The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
On kireji, from the glossary:

Ya indicates an emphatic pause and divides the haiku into two parts (usually indicated in English by a colon, dash or exclamation point). Keri adds emotion to the preceding verb and marks a pause. Kana gives emphasis to the word preceding it, with an emotional effect like a soft sigh, usually marking the end of a haiku.
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The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master

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Punk is 87% done with The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
A renga link from Shisenjo:

a writing table
paper and the moon—
such richness
Mar 07, 2026 02:22PM Add a comment
The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master

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Punk is 56% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"On side one you bang the drum, and then on side two, as a reward, you get to complicate things. You know the phrase 'I don’t make the rules'? It doesn’t apply here, because I made this rule."
Mar 06, 2026 04:09PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 54% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"Of all our albums, The Life of the World to Come comes closest to confessional folk, the very genre whose existence led me to call my act the Mountain Goats as a distancing tactic. Sonically it’s careful, curated; polite, even, for the most part; but lyrically it’s raw like uncooked meat. It was attached to a living creature just a little while before you saw it."
Mar 04, 2026 03:25PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 81% done with The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
Patricia Donegan's essay on renga actually comes out and says that the rules were meant to ensure no continuity in the poem as a whole, that it was closer to an exercise in Buddhist meditation—of all times and seasons at once—than a cohesive piece of work. I don't enjoy renga as an art form, but I can appreciate it as a social activity, a kind of literary game, and Donegan's description makes me see that appeal more.
Mar 04, 2026 03:07PM Add a comment
The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master

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Punk is 50% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
On THANK YOU MARIO BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE: It’s a simple song about how Toad must feel inside when Mario beats Bowser, which is to say, it’s a song about being surprised to see someone whose absence from your life has been a total catastrophe: personally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, practically, vertically, horizontally, Game Over.
Mar 02, 2026 02:14PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 76% done with The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
This is one of Chiyo-ni's best known Buddhist haiku and is supposedly expressing the peace of detachment, but I just love how dismissive it is:

anyway
leave it to the wind—
dry pampas grass
Mar 02, 2026 02:03PM Add a comment
The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master

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Punk is 74% done with The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master
Got this back from the library just in time to finish up the winter section:

falling down laughing
at others falling down—
snow viewing
Mar 01, 2026 02:01PM Add a comment
The Poetry of Chiyo-ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master

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Punk is 76% done with Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)
"Every war has its hotel," Cohen opined. "Tom Friedman said that, though I can’t say he ever said anything else I agreed with."
Feb 14, 2026 02:52PM Add a comment
Spin Control (Spin Trilogy, #2)

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Punk is 24% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
Lines from "Family Happiness" that as Darnielle put it "look down the line toward “No Children":

I hope the stars don’t even bother to come out tonight.
I hope we both freeze to death.
Feb 12, 2026 07:07PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 22% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"One reason I began performing under a collective name was to put distance between what I was doing and the confessional mode of songwriting. I prefer that my stories speak for themselves. They seem stronger to me when they do."
Feb 10, 2026 04:56PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 22% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
I still haven't heard any of these early songs out in the wild (i.e. without looking for them), and I haven't heard Horseradish Road at all, but on the page it very much sounds like a Mountain Goats song.
Feb 09, 2026 04:05PM Add a comment
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

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Punk is 21% done with This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days
"Financial ruin is an almost irresistible theme for me; as soon as I feel tempted to drain a character’s bank account, I do it, whether owing to bank error or poor money management skills on their part, it does me no force, I must have their money, the better to flush it down the toilet for them."
Feb 09, 2026 03:58PM Add a comment
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