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


Tumbleweed

20 Apr 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Van life is all about finding privacy, and staying clean.  Things most people take for granted, from bathing to being able to change your clothes while standing up (without being outdoors), are all luxuries to be savored.  The American West is good f...

San Francisco Here I Come

17 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I have recently been brought up on charges in the court of the birds for perjuring myself in song.  An indictment of insubstantial mist was filed against me, a cloud-based document of illegible precipitation in which I was accused of using my imagina...

Love is a Room

16 Apr 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"If love is a room,my life is a series of hallways"Love is a Room   I used to love California.  Especially L.A.  When I lived in Silverlake, my idea of recreation would be to get really stoned, pop a CD into my portable sound machine, and walk to Hol...

Jesus The Days We Have Seen

15 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent!" "Jesus, the days that we have seen!"Justice Shallow   I wrote "Jesus The Days We Have Seen" sometime in the 90s.  The title was inspired by a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2.  It is an expression...

How Great Thou Art

14 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man,...

Crimes Against Stupidity

11 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"If you must say something negative,make sure it's positive."Pablo Smog   I am guilty of a hate crime.  A hate-thought crime, to be more specific.  Not against chicks, or blacks, or sodomites, or any person at all, really.  Not even idiots.  As a rec...

Fofo Wept

10 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"During the hearing he had this Tuesday, Fofo Márquez cried again."N+   Fofo Márquez is the 26-year-old son of the owner of a chain of Mexican gas stations, who regularly posts videos boasting about his wealth on social media.  In addition to flashin...

Pac-Manacatecuhtli Eats The Sky

8 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

There is a great debate in Mexico whether the sky is being eaten by Pac-Manuīlcōzcacuāuhtli, the Aztec god of video games and gluttony, Pac-Manacatecuhtli, the Aztec god of video games and sustenance, or Pac-Mantemoc, the Aztec god who made it to lev...

The Great 2054 Human/Alien War at Tucson, Arizona

7 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

While plowing the poem fields today, I discovered both the time and location of the war of the worlds, the bloody, existential battle for survival between the humans and the aliens.  I was digging through the pixelated dirt with my implements of farm...

The Cat Lady/Road Island

4 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"This is California, we're going into the sea."1937 California Earthquake Dream   At the beginning of the article Soul Sicarios, I mention the idea of dismissiveness.  The article took an immediate left turn into uncharted territory, but it was origi...