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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...
20 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
What am I doing in Mexico? Right. Of course. I can't remember. What am I doing in Mexico? Leaving. What else? No matter where it is, you know it's time to gowhen people get to know you. It's a life of goodbyes, Of the endless Adios. "Pack light," t...
19 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I can tell it's Christmasby the inflatablesnowmensitting on the sidewalkin the sun Is that a homeless man,or Santa Claus? Did he just ask me for a cigarette? Isn't he worried that the sparkswill land on his coat,causing him todeflate? Does he disgust...
17 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I avoid all insulting manufactured propaganda events, so when Civil War came out earlier this year, I ignored it. But it made itself available tonight when I wasn't looking for it. So, in a moment of morbid curiosity, I watched it. It isn't garbag...
13 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm leaving on a violin trainto dance on the ceilingof a bottomless sky I'm dying to go fallingoff this raincloudlike a bird I will not hit the bottom I am a mist of sorrow Hanging by my neck On a skeleton of words * * ...
11 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"You and me are molded by thingsWell beyond our acknowledgment"Stereolab I had a friend in Austin who was the leader of a traditional Irish punk band. He said something once about backing him up in a bar fight and was offended when my response was...
