Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com
31 Jan 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion ― against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' id...
27 Jan 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Booble, the world must know of your ways. I will fight for your survival. One day people will understand and stop destroying your homes and killing your kind. I'll return next year, and protect you, Booble.”Timothy Treadwell Humanity is the onl...
21 Jan 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I call them "sister albums." Albums which are opposite sides of the same coin, usually made in tandem with each other, like twins. Vampire Cats and What's The Deal, Bufu Harem? are sister albums. So are Your Arms Inside Me and Is It For Real? The...
17 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Have you ever ordered a content sandwich from a restaurant? Ever been to a content gallery? If you think the term "subscribable content" is yet another way to devalue things, if you think that the "create" button you have to hit to upload a cat vid...
30 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have decided that Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico commonly known as AMLO, is also the president of ASMR. The dude is seriously relaxed. Beyond merely speaking slowly, he adds a lot of space in between his slow words. Add to...
25 Dec 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Christmas is all about taking the risk of having faith, in spite of every reason we've ever learned to never have faith in anything again. "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death lig...
24 Dec 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Psalm 139:8 I heard a Christmas song for the first time this year today, at Walmart of all places. I don't remember which song it was, but it was a goo...
14 Dec 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I have been subscribed to Joshua Chavez's YouTube channel for awhile now. I don't follow him closely, but I watch a video every now and then. He has a lot of wisdom and is worth listening to. We share a disdain for the words "influencer" and "cont...
10 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
About a week before Halloween, I visited a cemetery near San Miguel de Allende and felt like I was on the rough side of Christmas Village. Festive-yet-morbid gangster vibes permeated everything, but the sense that I was hanging out in Christmas Town...
8 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
For the first time, I understand white guilt. Not from personal experience, but as an embarrassing, optional social phenomenon engaged in by surprisingly large numbers of white people. This is the meme that finally made me get it: I now know why t...
