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3 Oct 2021 11 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Last week, I was kidnapped by members of the faculty of the Escuela de Cantautoristas de Pablo Smog in Veracruz, Mexico. Some weird, dirty, unemployed-looking guys pointed their guitars in my face and shoved me in the back of a van and drove me into...
26 Sep 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Hello, My name is Amoobi. I am a Nigerian songwriting student, currently studying at the Escuela de Cantautoristas de Pablo Smog in the dangerous port city of Veracruz, Mexico. I arrived several months ago on a songwriting visa supposedly issued by...
16 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Mexico is celebrating its Independence Day today. I'm watching it on YouTube, the livestream of an empty Zócalo in Mexico City, where the president spoke and said "Viva México" several times from the balcony, and rang a bell. He's wearing a purple...
19 Aug 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Looking back is more than merely inadvisable, apparently. It's not so hard to avoid, when you realize how many bullets you dodged. Like I used to tell people when I was a cabdriver, who thought it looked like "fun," driving drunken, abusive halfwit...
30 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I saw the most Mexican thing I’ve ever seen the other day. I walked across the street to look for something to eat, preferably a taco cart, or someone sitting on the sidewalk with a cooler full of tamales, and found a pet shop instead. Instead of p...
23 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Hello again so soon, indeed. The purpose of this email is to direct you over to my SubscribeStar page, so if you want to avoid all the fun and get straight to the point, well, you probably should never have opened this email. But your hateful, cont...
3 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In this era of magnetic meat and metallic cheese, you may want to visit your local Mexican market, and start shopping there. The cheese in this place comes from the next town: I also have some new "Made In America" merchandise available on...
5 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Nifty Buckles
Cinco de May Day. It is commemorated annually on May 5th by Mexicans. May 5th marks the victory of the Mexican people over Napoleon and his one hundred and eleventh army. The 1862 battle was fought at Pueblo Mexico. This battle united the Mexican peo...
28 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I don’t write poems anymore. I used to write an epic poem on occasion, as an act of artistic intent. The Stumblefish album contains 2 or 3 long, psychedelic garbage poems. I have written many poems. But I don’t sit down to write poems anymore. I...
21 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Mexican officials report that 8 police officers and 3 state prosecutor office agents are dead after gunmen ambushed a convoy in the town of Coatepec Harinas in the State of Mexico during broad daylight. The convoy had been patrolling the area to comb...
