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17 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Zen (n.) 1. A Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation2. A state of calm attentiveness in which one's actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort Will artificial inte...
15 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Mexico doesn't have a lot of extra space for politically-correct speech. It's a macho culture, and men and women don't make eye contact when passing each other on the street. It's not appropriate. Not only is it potentially dangerous for the women...
11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Dearest Wormwood, Like ketchup and mustard, or vultures and roadkill, Valentine's Day and Halloween complement each other perfectly. In an age when love is rape and lust is love, celebrate Valentine's Day this year by taking your mortal beloved on a...
8 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wrote "When You Go To Hell" in the free camping area near Leadville, Colorado in September 2015. It was a popular live song with the swing-dancing crowd. People from the past would show up and dominate the dance floor with their ghostly, retro mo...
6 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I've had some killer times on drugs."Bill Hicks Most people have seen The Deer Hunter at least .7 times. What they may not know is that the movie is based on a lost Rembrandt painting titled "The Fentanyl Den," which depicts several people in a S...
4 Feb 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"When I was younger, so much younger than todayI never needed anybody's help in any wayBut now these days are gone, I'm not so self assuredNow I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors"Help! I have long been a great appreciator of Chick t...
2 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Back in the day, you had to climb the stairs to the gallows. In the 1950s, you could take an elevator. Today, you can ride a rocket-powered spitball to the gallows. Spitball to the Gallows. Loogie to the stars. All our loogies are in hock. You...
31 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
On the FAQ page of my Discography site, I answer 2 of the most common questions I receive. The first, of course, is "What's your problem, anyway?" The second is, "Who is Pablo Smog?" This is Pablo Smog: Pablo Smog was my pen name when I lived in L...
29 Jan 2024 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it....
27 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Beauty will get you killed It isn't suitable for this worldof regurgitant paintings,or musical chores Beauty is deadly It reminds us of a placewhere we finallybelong A beautiful placewe are certainis there,but which is soimpossiblytrue,only the rec...
