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Replacing my blog at http://pablosmoglives.wordpress.com


The 8-Bit Existential Allegory

I'm older-school than most.  There are older people who are older-school than me, by virtue of being older than me, and having therefore gone to school sooner, but I'm older-school than most.  I remember when video games all had to be different, inst...

Nathan Payne 9 minute read 27 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.32

Garage d'Or

Today is the 10-year anniversary of Garage d'Or, my distorted rock album.  Many of the songs were very old when they were recorded 10 years ago, but they never found a place on any of the other albums.  Tired of waiting, the songs started a mutiny, a...

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 18 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.07

Mandatory Blanket Passports in the Old West

Most people don't know that in the Old West, The U.N. and New World Health Organization distributed free blankets to the Native populations of the Western Territories.  Touting a forced, disingenuous interest in the "BIPOC" communities of the day, we...

Nathan Payne 4 minute read 17 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.07

Invisible Manifesto For A Rising Outlaw Nation (Take 2)

"Everybody's got a bombWe could all die any dayBut before I'll let that happenI'll dance my life away"Prince   It doesn't take much to make me want to play these days.  But I never do.  It isn't playing I don't believe in.  You don't want to know wha...

Nathan Payne 6 minute read 14 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.03

Everything I Have Is Yours

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the release of Everything I Have Is Yours, my only gospel album to date.  It consists of about half originals and half covers.  The originals and public-domain cover songs are on the YouTube playlist.  The entire a...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 11 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.03

An Oxymoron of Anarchists

"If we're out fixing the world but we're still damaged, we're just bleeding on everything we touch."  Lisa Freeman   I just caught episode 5 of HBO's "The Anarchists" series on BitChute last night, and found it more compelling than I expected to.  At...

Nathan Payne 7 minute read 9 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.11

Desert Solitaire/The Future is Old

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view."  Edward Abbey "There's a cross on the side of the road with my name on it."  Pablo Smog   Desert Solitaire I found myself snarling at Border Patrol guards a...

Nathan Payne 9 minute read 7 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.07

White Knuckles in the Spirit World

  White Knuckles in the Spirit World   when your world falls apart and you can no longer deny your broken heart may it all come down peacefully   may the mountains collapse like cotton kittens in your lap and smother your dreams while you are sleepi...

Nathan Payne 1 minute read 5 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.09

Brains Are Not A Virtue

“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”George Bernard Shaw "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."William Blake   I forgot to say something in my last article.  I can't find it, but I read something once in which G...

Nathan Payne 2 minute read 2 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.02

How To Tell The Sheep From The Goats?

“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...

Nathan Payne 14 minute read 2 Aug 2022 0 comments $0.01