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18 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Mexico is hardcore. It's like a pretty girl with a switchblade knife. A beautiful scar. A soccer ball in headlights, bouncing through the street. An inferno of confetti. A homecooked meal on the sidewalk. A cigarette of lemon dust. A love song pad...
10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Isn't that something? Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."Chinatown In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge. It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...
8 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In this press conference, Donald Trump was observed throwing shade at Pablo Smogtopia, like he's not even aware it's a real country. He probably doesn't even admit to attending the state dinner at the purple bouncy castle in 2019, where the Pablo A...
7 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Several years ago, I wrote an article titled The Artless Revolution, in which I observed the lack of a soundtrack for the manufactured revolution of the modern Western left through a political lens. The observation is obsolete. The reason I disable...
5 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Never trust a writer whose work cannot be played on the piano."Pablo Keats-Kerouac Smog I don't remember the quote exactly, but Pablo Keats-Kerouac Smog once said something to the effect that you should never trust a writer who doesn't know that a t...
4 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Jazz is dead."The Zombie Sicaria If you or anyone you know are jazz, beware the zombie sicaria. As a rehearsing archaeologist, decoding urban hieroglyphics is one of my hobbies. It is particularly easy when the declarations chiseled into the clo...
3 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"My father won't slight you for your lack of kind"She Moved Through The Fair The adversary has orchestrated the war so adeptly, I'm at the point where I'm officially gun shy over Christian YouTube videos. I'm tired of having the door of default sa...
29 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I don't think there's anything like saving someone's life to bring you satisfaction and happiness."Stephanie Kwolek Because it isn't true, most people don't know that Kevlar was invented by a Polish lady who got the idea while performing an autops...
26 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the tale of a woke Scrooge who is given a vision of his future. Woke Scrooge is horrified by the neurotic, demonic depiction of his future self by Johnny Depp, and is relieved to wake up in the body of either...
24 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”Ai Weiwei What are the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" of the arts? When artists play "Rock, Paper, Scissors," what tools do they use? Beauty? Sorrow? Subterfuge? Denial? No...
