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The Stoic Rollercoaster

24 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

So, you wanna be a sicario.  Super hardcore, like the guy in the song.  You don't take no lip from no 'thority figures, and mujeres exist to affirm your own bad decisions.  Anyone tells you different, is gonna end up in stasis.  "I have tunnel vision...

The Fentanyl of Love

20 Jan 2024 11 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”Matthew 24:12   Lust is the Fentanyl of love.  A synthetic byproduct of magnetic attraction, and physical desire.  Lust is the ersatz emotion that feels like love, but which is not....

The Blair Witch Allegory

14 Jan 2024 11 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I see why you like this video camera so much.  It's not quite reality.  It's like you can pretend everything's not quite the way it is."The Blair Witch Project   I saw The Blair Witch Project at the Davis Theater in Chicago, in October of 1999.  It...

An Army of Samurai Rabbits

10 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Remember when MTV was new, and everybody over the age of 25 thought it was the end of the world?  Remember when Karaoke came out, and everybody thought it was going to be the end of live music?  Remember when Napster enabled a culture of entitlement...

Rad Lieutenant

9 Jan 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have ca...

Music For Transients Only

8 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I am not a Christian artist.I am an artist who is a Christian."Johnny Cash   Oh good, I already wrote it.  The article about the crushing vacuum that holds it all together.  The contrary forces of infinite pressure and heartbreaking void leaning on...

Dark Side of the Dog

5 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Most people have been to the dark side of the moon.  But wisdom is not there.  Wisdom is hiding on the dark side of the dog. Dark Side of the Dog Am I good enough to bethe causeof all your problems? I'm gonna hang my sleeping bagin the skyI'm gonna...

My Own Private Mexico

3 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The artist is the last free person."Duncan Fallowell   It's getting weird out there.  I derive no pleasure from believing it will only get worse.  People who revel in "being right" are dangerous lunatics; I would love nothing more than to be complet...

Message in a Bottle

1 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Amazing waste, how sweet the monkeyI once was a drunk, but now I’m a junkyI once was a junky, but now I’m a maggotthe world is a toe, an’ we’re all gonna tag it”Pablo Smog   I have always liked Tucson.  While some of the dumbest, most miserable expe...

The Scaffolding of Dreams

29 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”1 Corinthians 6:19   Because it's a hilarious, festive way to go, deaths by flocks of carnivorous balloons are generally...