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11 Feb 2022 14 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
"Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." Matthew 12:36 Less than a few weeks ago, I discovered I have a new artistic standard. I wouldn't say it's a total replacement of whatever my hopefully...
6 Feb 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.02
I was big on Gregory Corso in the late 90s. He was my favorite Beat poet, along with Kerouac. I carried a copy of Gasoline on numerous trips; in fact I've always carried it with me, since I bought it at City Lights Books in San Francisco in '98 or...
5 Feb 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm going to cop to a fair amount of bitterness up front. I'm going to confess to not only indulging in it, but in not believing in it either. It's why I came to Mexico. I came to Mexico not only to overcome and g...
2 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.09
I always loved the smell of used bookstores. There is something undeniably relaxing about walking between stacks of aged, dying paper, upon which is written the wisdom and stupidity of the ages. You'd wander past the gardening and how-to books, tow...
31 Jan 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.07
“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 $0.02
“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 $0.03
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 $0.01
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 $0.02
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 $0.01
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...
