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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...
3 Dec 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I quit drinking in 2014 after losing a drummer to alcohol drama. I also missed a show the next day, the only show I've ever missed. I had to cancel it due to being sick from drinking. Canceling that show bothers me to this day. It's a good thing....
28 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I am taking the scenic route to Spanish fluency. It took me several months to learn the difference in "horse" and "onion." The words are very similar. "Caballo" means horse and "cebolla" means onion. I have never actually tried to buy a horse at...
27 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
https://youtu.be/45ClunS8D2g I'd never been to San Miguel de Allende before a couple months ago. Like Ajijic, it's famous as a gringo hub, so I've never been interested in it. But it was better than I thought it would be. The gringos aren't every...
