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19 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Three 1. I-40 is the Northern Front. 2. I need to get out of this beat. 3. Border outpost rust stop. 4. Dollar store mystery. 5. Oil pump jerky. 6. BBQ wells pumping. 7. Horses beyo...
17 Mar 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-Two 1. Embrace the possibility of cartoon physics. 2. Resist the implementation of centralized digital birds. 3. Ride on the words and wings of dreams. 4. A small, portable volcano;...
15 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty-One 1. I crossed the border of Americana 2. With a passport and my 3. Hair, 4. In search of the sacred 5. Corazón 6. Beating like a bass drum 7. Beneath the golden 8. City. 9. I fou...
14 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Sixty 1. You can't sleep here. 2. This isn't a restaurant. 3. I understand the menu intellectually, but have yet to accept it into my heart. 4. Let's get a bite to sleep. 5. Who are the...
13 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.06
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Nine 1. Roast beer; root beef. 2. Boot rear; boast reef. 3. The day of the bored will come as a thief in the night. 4. Do you want to leave this world alive? 5. Make yourselves read...
11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
Written at the Mark Twain Hotel in Hollywood in 2004 or 5, probably, while pacing the room with a notebook and pen watching people walking by the post office across the street, "No Destination" is my farewell love letter to L.A. It is a wistful good...
11 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
"Wavelength" is a 1967 experimental film by Michael Snow. Supposedly, it is an example of "structural film," a meaningless, self-important term applied to indulgent nonsense "whose shapes were often predetermined and which subordinated content to fo...
10 Mar 2026 2 minute read 6 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
I miss New York. The summer I spent there 20 years ago remains one of the best times of my life. It's an amazing city. My last trip there wasn't so great, and to my own surprise NYC seemed small. It was weird. I wrote about it in the article NYC...
10 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.08
When darkness is Mixing with Fear; When things are not as they Appear; When things get Weird, and the soul needs Fixing; When inertia Kicks in, and a dead-end Route teen begins haranguing you In your dreams; When your schemes are pounding Floorboards...
8 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.12
Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Fifty-Eight 1. It's not even a story anymore. It's just a tangled ball of broken Christmas lights. There is neither beginning nor end to it. 2. Or so it seems. 3. Don't you want to go to...
