Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com
2 Jul 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There's a lot more hope in this story than there is in This is a House of Warship, even if the hope is synthetic. The darkness isn't really less dark, it's just high, or perhaps more stupid, if only because it takes place in Hollywood, a place that...
1 Jul 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
This is a story I wrote for a book I published in 2012. It's a snapshot of a certain mindset I was in when I lived in Chicago in the late 90s. I was recently looking at a map of Chicago and the horror and beauty of those days hit me all at once, an...
29 Jun 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"All women are aware of that moment when suddenly the boys don't look at you. It's a fairly common thing, when suddenly you no longer attract that instant male attention because of the way you look." Julie Christie "Even the finest sword plunged in...
25 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The American Journal posted a video today with the title "What Is It About Abortion That Drives Leftists So Insane?" I believe the answer is in the Book of Proverbs. "There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is...
23 Jun 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"In the future only those who are members of a chamber are allowed to be productive in our cultural life. Membership is open only to those who fulfill the entrance condition. In this way all unwanted and damaging elements have been excluded." Jose...
12 Jun 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” John 9:41 The phenomenon of the self-righteous, pontificating bullfrog who presumes to speak for Heaven so as to drag you into hell with him is nothin...
8 Jun 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:” Ephesians 2:2 “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the cons...
7 Jun 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
TRIGGER WARNING: This message is not suitable for children. You shouldn't be here. Go away. In this article, I'm going to tell you why it's time to be quiet, and listen. I'm going to show you how your vision has been blurred, how things that were...
3 Jun 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Lots of drivers can drive fast, but very few drivers can race." Richard Petty When I was a kid, my brother, my dad, and I went to all the NASCAR races. It was in the days when the only track that wasn't in the South was in Michigan. Maybe that...
31 May 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Die before you die; there is no chance after."C.S. Lewis "Hipness is death to the individual, and only the individual is truly hip."Pablo Smog Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai depicts a hitman from the street, a hip-hop zen warrior who raises pig...
