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Karin
@drivelikekarin.bsky.social
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Writer, poetry workshop facilitator, collagist, and birder based in Portland, Oregon. Author of See You Never (2024).

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The raddest Nigerian psych rock! youtu.be/Rou56KMf_dw?...
Mdou Moctar - Imouhar (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Mdou Moctar
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December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Love this poem from Heather Christie.
Poem by Heather Christie: Perfect Song I remember walking through the mornir after a night of heavy snow and drink with headphones on and they played me the most perfect song: no one was awake and I was hungover young as clean as a piano I thought and at any moment someone might fall in love with me I wa that woven into the electric cold bright air and for weeks after I went through the album in search of the song but could not find it and later much later I saw that what I had taken to be the song was in fact the joyous concordance of a moment that would not come again
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I’m not a believer, but every day I wake up and pray for the AI bubble to pop.
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I read the whole VF N*zzi piece and laughed until I cried at how bad it was. I won’t link because I don’t want her to get clicks! Here’s a buzzy book I would actually recommend instead (by Hannah Pitard, a good writer) bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...
If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel
A Novel
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November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Poor baby. :( I’m heartened by how much people cared and that she wasn’t alone.
opb.org OPB @opb.org · Nov 17
UPDATE: A last-ditch effort Monday has failed to pull a stranded whale so it faced the ocean at high tide and could potentially swim to safety, authorities say. Dozens of people from numerous agencies and organizations worked this weekend to keep the whale alive and coordinate a rescue.
Efforts fail to save a stranded humpback whale on the Oregon Coast
Authorities say chances are “slim to none” that the young whale survives. The whale had been caught in fishing nets.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Enjoying this one from Monica McClure:
Poem by Monica McClure CLASS SONG If I were a man I would turn this self-violence onto you The lace was still gathered at my throat when they collected my bones among embers and opal But haven't you heard we rise from the ashes with our red hair It's too bad I dreamed of Cambridge but couldn't get accepted because of two Class B misdemeanors I wanted to be among great men Monica hearts Philip Larkin 4evah
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I requested this book for Christmas 20 years ago and my parents cutely inscribed it. I wish all the books I got as gifts had little notes in them. ❤️
The title page of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe with an inscription reading “Karin, On the bus or not…Love, Mom and Dad, Christmas 2004.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The only issue on the ballot here (parks levy) passed, hooray! I don’t have a car to get into the wilderness often, so parks are extra important to me. Here’s a little snap of my baby, Mt. Tabor Park:
A photo of Mt Tabor park in Portland with tennis courts, people in silhouette, a blue aquifer, and autumn trees in the background.
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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New York you make it happen!: youtu.be/ny6hwUOFvlw?...
Beastie Boys - An Open Letter to NYC
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November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Reading this book on doomsday cults in America and finding it fascinating and terrifying, especially because it ties in MAGA, American culture today, etc. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cults-...
Cults Like Us
An “engrossing, unputdownable” (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Bob Hicok used to be one of my favorite poets, but I just looked up his terrible essay from 2019 and am so disappointed. No poem-sharing for you, Bob. Hope you’ve learned something over the past 6 years: newrepublic.com/article/1546...
The Case of the “Disappearing” Poet
Why did a white poet see the success of writers of color as a signal of his own demise?
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November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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In another life I would have pursued a career in something related to public policy; glad I became a poet instead.
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Shazam-ing my neighbors’ shitty metalcore through the wall to see which terrible band they’re listening to, and then getting even madder when it’s one I’ve never heard of. Worst genre.
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I love Caesar the No Drama Llama and more people outside Oregon need to know about him (plus crucial therapy llama feud content from 2020, for the archive): www.wweek.com/culture/2020...
The Owners of Two Portland Celebrity Llamas Are Feuding
From the city that brought you squabbling strip clubs and pork-related chef brawls comes a new entry to the category of public in-fighting among Portland cultural figures: celebrity llama drama.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Eileen Myles nails it.
Poem by Eileen Myles: Today I would love to love someone forever & fuck them till they died.
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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People have been mistakenly calling me “Karen” my whole life, and I don’t mind correcting people, but in an age of karens it is a bit tiring, gotta say.
October 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Suddenly remembered this Big Star song I was obsessed with 10-15 years ago. All of my favorite songs are love songs youtu.be/utOb0JRLH0A?...
Nightime
YouTube video by Big Star - Topic
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October 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Emily Skaja’s got the juice.
Poem: BRUTE STRENGTH Soldier for a lost cause, brute, mute woman written out of my own story, I've been trying to cast a searchlight over swamp-woods & parasitic ash back to my beginning, that girlhood— kite-wisp clouded by gun salutes & blackbirds tearing out from under the hickories all those fine August mornings so temporary so gold-ringed by heat haze & where is that witch girl unafraid of anything, flea-spangled little yard rat, runt of no litter, queen, girl who wouldn't let a boy hit her, girl refusing to be It in tag, pulling that fox hide heavy around her like a flag? Let me look at her. Tell her on my honor, I will set the wedding dress on fire when I'm good & ready or she can bury me in it.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This Horse Feathers cover of Nirvana came out in 2010 and I’m sad I didn’t know about it, a great song to slow down: youtu.be/3-FO0HaVc0Y?...
Drain You
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October 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Fiona Apple and Jon Brion covering Buddy Holly. I love this song, would 100% sing it to a baby: youtu.be/IJGZImkXMVc?...
Everyday
YouTube video by Fiona Apple - Topic
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October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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From Safe Word by Donald Dunbar:
THE O F ENEMIES LOVE My mother was fond of digital pets, And put her hand on my head, And pressed her finger down. My father was a smartphone. My brother is a simile. My sister is a butterfly who eats butterflies. She flutters over, and matches her wings to theirs. I say "Oh you're a dragonfly!" and she says, "No, an angel." The cutscenes make it look like I'm living this life like a pro. But the gameplay footage shows me getting beat to death by angels. Shows me reloading, Shows me getting crushed under the weight of the gold I recover from their corpses. In this way, I come to resemble even my enemies.
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Maybe mostly everyone has seen it by now, and Fallon sucks, but this song by Hayley Williams is really kind of great, calls out white southern christofascism and racism, more of this, please! youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...
Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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October 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Incredibly rad and a jam, a real bop: youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?...
Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble
YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble
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October 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die,” sang Robert Smith, age 26. youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug?...
The Cure - In Between Days
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
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October 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I’ve been sad lately about a lot of things, but annoying animal dance party protest makes me laugh, great tactic, I love it here, never leaving.
thedailyshow.com The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · Oct 9
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM