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Double NARCAN Espresso, To Go

Back in the day, coffee shops served coffee, pharmacies could be trusted to provide clean, medical-grade pharmaceuticals, and Madonna was a pop star. Things have changed. According to Mexico Daily Post, "pharmacies in several northwestern Mexico citi...

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 6 Jul 2023 0 comments $0.08

Good Night For A Mexico Spirit

"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...

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 3 Jul 2023 0 comments $0.06

It's a Gateway World

“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...

Nathan Payne 17 minute read 1 Jul 2023 0 comments $0.03

Untitled Lovers

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...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 30 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.04

The Bible is the Truth (read it!)

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...

Nathan Payne 12 minute read 18 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.07

God Puts a Mexican Filter on NYC

"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...

Nathan Payne 3 minute read 15 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.09

Note for the Jiménez Bros. Band

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...

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 10 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.07

Requiem For Emily X

“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...

Nathan Payne 5 minute read 4 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.04

To Emily X, Who Died in the Reign of Terror

“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...

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 4 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.06

Has God Boycotted The U.S.?

"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...

Nathan Payne 7 minute read 1 Jun 2023 0 comments $0.03