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5 Aug 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Disturbing. Like looking through an old photo album that was lost in the fire, or opening a time capsule on an eternity in hell. I remember everything, recognize nothing. But a harrowing, exquisite nightmare it apparently has been. Thank God, you...
8 Jun 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I'm not following the developments surrounding the immigrant insurrection in L.A., but I would like to address anyone who doesn't understand why people waving Mexican flags would complain about being deported to Mexico. I'm not the first person to s...
10 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Isn't that something? Middle of a drought and thewater commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."Chinatown In the spring of 2005, I lived in a defunct motel in Malibu for 2 weeks, free of charge. It wasn't a motel in the traditional sense, but rather a...
26 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Liberals can understand everything but peoplewho don't understand them.”Lenny Bruce "L.A. Makes Me Wanna Die" is an instrumental track from my 2008 album, What's The Deal, Bufu Harem? It tells the story of a space cowboy who escaped the Bufu warl...
4 Jul 2024 2 minute read 0 comments newb0Xsir
LA Homeowner Short Story “Another case of purple” admired Alex as he stared at the purply haze chasing the LA sun setting over the sea. From the second-floor balcony of his 7-figure house, the colorful view began to put him in a trance. For a moment...
28 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgmentye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."Matthew 7:1-2 When I was a practicing idiot in L.A., I used to know some shady people. I was...
23 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Living in Mexico for a little over a year and a half, I don't see Mexicans in these videos. I see Americans. I hear it, the Chicano accent. I see the Spanish names for the small businesses in the background. But these subcultures are quintessent...
6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments abstraction4coins
It's almost been a month since I moved to LA and I've moved out of my first sublet in Koreatown. My landlord was tweaking and we were fighting about the deposit, but that's more of an irl convo to be had. In any case, I dropped Melancholia and it fee...
29 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Once upon a time, I used to enjoy writing trippy, epic poems. I would write them in hotel rooms full of bugs, with bloodstains on the wall, staring out the window at the flashing, crazy city. The first poem to ever appear in any kind of collection...
13 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments attilioCesare
a free speech bastion: BASTYON.COM... See the video and my commentary here! ...and consider joining us there... leaving Facebook behind forever, like i did! Thanks for listening and watching (this one)!
