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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
20 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"They came in with green vests and goat horns. They blasted everyone."Survivor of the Salvatierra Massacre On the night I moved into my apartment on 18th and Racine in Chicago in 1999, I was shaken down by the Latin Kings. A stoned, drunken gangb...
17 Dec 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Beware the fury of a patient man."John Dryden People are a crossbow pointed at the heads of every leader in history. The longer and harder people are pushed and pulled around, the more violent and sudden their reaction will be when the tension is...
14 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There is a pile of wordsstacked in the hallway It could be a poem,or a purpose But it isn't I was tired, so I took my restbeside a sea of digitalnoise Somewhere on the moon The locals observed me withcurious amusement I spelled "S.O.S." in giant let...
