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3 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"McCarthy was right."The Internet In a moment of existential despair and self-absorbent angst, I purchased a pack of Mexico Spirit cigarettes today. Not Mexic-an Spirit, Mexic-o Spirit. The first drag was brutal. Clearly, the tobacco was cured i...
1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29 I am in Mexico for every reason. Good, bad, and everything in between. Beautiful a...
30 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Unbalance is a film by Takashi Ito. "Untitled Lovers" is a collaboration with Trey Blake of Brighton, England. She provides background vocals and original poetry. You can hear her original work in the song "Free Me Love," pasted below. Thanks for...
18 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
1. The Museum Glass of Heaven I went to Juárez, Mexico with a church group in January of 1994. We were there to build a house. By "house" I mean concrete structure that may or may not have had any holes in the floor or walls for plumbing and elect...
15 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Mexico is sepia, old, and shadowy."Dulce Maria Sauri I'm in the middle of re-watching Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, which is better than I remember. It's an interesting snapshot of the time in which it was made. Pre-9/11, pre-2006 Mexic...
10 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Estimados Hnos. Jiménez, I overheard your concert in the backyard the other night. I liked the part where you led the entire audience in a rousing chorus of whatever you call that noise you make. The audience seemed enthusiastic, everybody singing...
4 Jun 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”Matthew 23:15 I mean it, y'know. The whole thing about not believ...
4 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all.”Emily Dickinson I have an English degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and never once, not once, ever, have I heard an...
1 Jun 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season...Your iniquities have turned aw...
30 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."Norma Desmond I don't hate it as much as I thought I would. When I heard that a song called "Boycott Target" was in 2nd place on some rap & hip-hop charts somewhere, my first thought was some variation...
