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The Punk Ethic
Timothy Decker

Pub. date: May 1, 2012

Back to music, what are songs anyway? They’re crappy little stories. And there are two kinds: the whiny confession. Which suck. And the fictional story. Which suck. All this strumming and singing is a waste. I’m tired of wasting time. I don’t want to tell anybody anything about me. That’s stupid. I don’t want to invent some story. I don’t want to be entertaining. That’s stupid.

I have to do something. Wake up, Martin. Go start something. Go!
If you want to rock, you come out swinging. Well, Martin Henry just made a fist.

Challenged by a teacher to actually “do” something, Martin walks a minefield of idiot friends, an unfathomable Dream Girl, high school, and relative pennilessness to prove that he can change the world.

The funny thing about change, it screws up everything.

Whatever…

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Things that make a book perfect
March 12, 2012

Last year on my birthday my six-year-old granddaughter, Belle, gave me a list titled "How to Make (and Publish) a Book." This year she gave me a new list. Here it is:

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