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24 Dec 2021 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.04
"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 $0.03
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 $0.08
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 $0.21
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 $0.02
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 $0.04
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 $0.02
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...
23 Nov 2021 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.05
Until yesterday, I didn't know what "praise and worship music" meant. Most "praise and worship" music grates on my ears, and I never listen to it. I usually see (or hear) it as bad art, and not truly capable of praising or worshiping anything. It'...
16 Nov 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
One of the greatest flaws in rap lyrics is the over-reliance on rhyme for its own sake. It's a remedial, beginner's device, and no one who has ever written more than 2 songs is entirely unguilty of it. There's an inherent writer's thrill at discove...
12 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne $0.03
When discussing the lack of interesting and/or talented independent musicians today, there are two names I never mention: Lana Del Rey and Jack White. I actually like Lana Del Rey, but I never mention her because she's an obvious, self-professed in...
