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Proverbs of Smog #43

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty-Three 1. The freeway is a feast. 2. A takeaway buffet. 3. Traffic is a priest. 4. Slow and in the way. 5. Avoid the biting flyway. Take instead 6. The ever wonder whyway. 7. Repent!...

I Can't Get Started: The Melancholy of Starting Over

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments floc1960

A short essay with a jazz soundtrack Soundtrack (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BuWDhuT2I I was resting for a moment, the coffee machine refusing to stop, and I stumbled into a song that feels like a human truth dressed in velvet. Bunn...

Proverbs of Smog #42

9 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty-Two 1. You know the vibes are harsh 2. When the sound of parking lot 3. Yelling in the 4. People chills you 5. Out. 6. I will leave the country to get away from your TV. 7. I've don...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Metal Postcard"

6 Feb 2026 5 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

As the most veteran but least popular — at least here in the States — group on the original Lollapalooza tour, this made them far more enigmatic and mysterious than anyone else on the bill. The year is 1991 and the only thing I know about them, real...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Nine Inch Nails - "Wish"

2 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Trent in leather coat which is probably quite hot in the Sahara   Like Ice-T, Trent Reznor has always displayed a preternatural gift for networking. Before he’s even formed the eventual band that made him famous, for example, his previous outfit, of...

Proverbs of Smog #40

1 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty 1. The spectrum is a zoo. 2. All spectrums are the matrix. 3. To be on it is to be in it. 4. People trap and capture their own hearts in the wild to be 5. Free, break their own  6....

Licking The Fist That Feeds

25 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"We pass through our days with the freedom of a dogwho never reaches the end of its leash."Derrick Jensen   It's time to dust off this old cloud of dust and see if the ghost of the original idea has grown any skin.  While "fascists crashing through t...

Birth of the School

23 Jan 2026 3 minute read 1 comment Nathan Payne

I met a guy recently who had never heard of Miles Davis.  He is a classically-trained violin player in his early 30s, and we were talking about music and I said something about Miles Davis.  The name didn't register with him at all.  I was surprised,...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Ice-T - "Colors"

21 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

In this era of supreme silliness, as the mid 80s eventually bleed into the 90s, it’s fascinating how someone like Ice-T can come across as dangerous merely because he’s serious as hell. A person didn’t necessarily need to lace his rhymes with endles...

Girls, What's Your Trip?

20 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The soul of a woman was created below."Led Zeppelin   If girls are aliens, and aliens are demons, does that mean girls are demons? More importantly, when the fuse blows in the interstellar nightclub, is it necessary to fix the life support system b...