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Episode 69: Live From My Motor Home - somewhere in California

10 May 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart

I've been traveling up in Northern California, doing some construction work with a friend, for the past 10 days and I did my first livestream from my motorhome on this edition of my podcast. Songs: - 1:00 "Play On" by Fast Heart Mart (banjo) - 24:35...

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...

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...

The Sleeping Sea Trilogy

5 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"Sleeping Sea" is a song in 3 parts, a dismembered musical body whose sonic ashes are scattered over 2 different oceans:  The Pacific Ocean, and The Salton Sea. "Sleeping Sea #1," or simply "Sleeping Sea," was inspired by a drive up the Pacific Coast...

Episode 48: 10 Years In San Diego

12 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Fast Heart Mart

 https://youtube.com/live/Sk3sfSPNnTg?feature=shareI have been in San Diego for exactly 10 years this month and this episode I did some reflecting about how that has been. Frankly, this episode is mostly me talking about my battle with clinical depre...

Thief Decides To Rob Wrong Store...

4 Aug 2023 2 minute read 3 comments SweptOverNiagara

In the last few months, I've read articles of people getting fired for trying to stop thieves from walking out without paying. Most often, these stories originate in California. I wonder why??? Thieves have brazenly stolen bags full of items, literal...

Wednesday Walk - Bodega Bay and Armstrong Redwoods

5 Oct 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21

For my third and final Wednesday Walk submission relating to my recent trip to Northern California, I would like to share a few images taken from a day spent along the North Californian coastal town of Bodega Bay and, later on, in the Armstrong Redwo...

Looming disaster

15 Aug 2022 13 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

  Oakland and Bay, en.wikipedia.org Although our nation had been hit by surprise, with our computer networks and our defences seriously compromised and all electronics taken out by four EMP blasts across the continent, Claire’s prewarning had not go...

Riding a Hot Air Balloon in California

14 Jul 2022 1 minute read 2 comments LateToTheParty

Co-published on Read.cash. A few weeks ago, my wife and I had the pleasure to travel to southern California. As I was on summer break for professional school and she had some off-days to spare, it was a great time for us to visit a few friends and ex...

Good Morning Hollywood

2 Jul 2022 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

There's a lot more hope in this story than there is in This is a House of Warship, even if the hope is synthetic.  The darkness isn't really less dark, it's just high, or perhaps more stupid, if only because it takes place in Hollywood, a place that...