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


It's Gone

23 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05

I woke up today with a sense of urgency I've never experienced.  I've lived in fight or flight, hyper-vigilant panic/freeze mode for much of my life, and this wasn't that.  The sense that time is VERY SHORT pursued me like a rabid, friendly animal. ...

The Station Agent

22 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.01

The most toxic side effect of the woke agenda is that it dehumanizes the individual and forces him or her into an over-complicated caricature.  There is no such thing as a non-binary superhero or a man who can menstruate; there is very much such a th...

Spanish For Bored

20 Feb 2024 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02

What's the hardest part about being a Christian.  Is it abstaining from sin?  Controlling your tongue?  Forgiving your enemies? Speaking graciously and with 1st Corinthians-grade charity to self-righteous, arrogant people who lower the standards of t...

He Paid The Price On... Cavalry?

18 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02

"Thank you for your merch and forgiveness.You paid the price on Cavalry."The Church of Laodicea   While making the lyric video for "Everything I Have Is Yours," I stumbled over 2 morbidly-humorous potential typos.  Instead of "mercy and forgiveness,"...

Zen of the Screaming Machines

17 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03

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...

No Clown Privilege

15 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04

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...

Cheshire Moon

11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03

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...

When You Go To Hell

8 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02

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...

Sinaloan Roulette

6 Feb 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04

"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...

Peacocks in the Mud

4 Feb 2024 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02

"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...