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Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com


Karaoke Night in the Brains Department

20 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The Brains Department is a thinking establishment with locations around the world.  The Austin branch decided to have Karaoke night today, in which people with no thoughts or opinions of their own are able to mimic the thoughts and opinions of others...

BBQ Lovecraft

15 Mar 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Hello,   I am currently in a hotel on I-35, in the high-density traffic corridor between Austin and San Antonio, and am considering my options.  Which is a worldly way of saying I'm waiting to see where God's finger points.   Thank you for your praye...

La Frontera

8 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Friendly as they are, the support team here at Publish0x hasn't been able to convince me that the flashing ad for crypto slots is ever going to go away, so I'm migrating over to Substack.  I've been posting sporadically on Substack for a few years, a...

Thank You, Mexico

28 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I would like to thank the Mexico chapter of my band for re-igniting the music flame in my heart, mind, and soul.  I consider you to be close, personal friends of mine, and I would never have opened the guitar case again without your support and inspi...

American Migrant 2: Burgers With Dust

27 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

How do you make a sequel to a movie that has never been made? Ask the dust. The idea for American Migrant has changed.  A lot.  While the desire to keep it apolitical persists, and the goal would be that conservatives and liberals could sit next to...

The Weight of Fire

25 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"You don't always get what you go after.  But you do getwhat you wouldn't have got if you hadn't goneafter what you didn't get."Blaze Foley   I have reached another level of expat dissociation.  When you live so long with the locals that they talk to...

Martyr, Migrant, or Moron?

20 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Don't wanna be an American idiot."Green Day Hello, I am writing to request asylum for my friend, an American refugee who has been living in Mexico for over 4 years.  The leader of "Nathan Payne & The Wild Bores," Nathan Payne is an American songwrit...

Burgers With Dust

13 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I went to the bunkerfor burgers withdust Circus con queso Pork rinds & rust Children playedwith handheldtornadoes Dogs slept in the shadows Shadowsextendinglike bones of the nightfrom the feet of the streetlight Skeletons screaming     ©Nathan Payn...

Death is Not a Part of Life

10 Feb 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"We were searching for a place of refuge for our love,but instead, the road led us to the land of the dead."The Color of Pomegranates   The Color of Pomegranates is a Soviet-Armenian art film made by Sergei Parajanov in 1969.  It tells the story of t...

The Infernal Venus

8 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Infernal Venus, Yes indeed.  Riding up through desert yesterday, super-stoned and spacey, the Strip was slow and glowing, the show was alright — not bad — and afterward we won almost $30 at roulette between the 2 of us.  And the casino was singing it...