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Mexican Odyssey

18 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Gómez Palacio.  Just over the Durango state line from Torreón.  What is apopleptic?  Apoplepsy?  Is that the word?  They use dead bodies for the foundation of the highway.  In order to ensure the ride is as insane as possible, they pour asphalt over...

Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees

13 Oct 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I wrote "Farewell Song Sweet From My Trees" under the giant Redwood trees in Northern California, only a few weeks after sobering up.  My last drunk night was a party in Clarkdale, Arizona, with a handful of people, including a girl I was seeing at t...

Suedo Philosophics #1: It's Time To Start Saying Goodbye

4 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

It occurred to me last night that it might be time to start saying goodbye. Not in a histrionic or dramatic way, but with no illusions either.  What better way than through Suedo Philosophics? For anyone who doesn't know, Suedo Philosophics are like...

Fraught With Pearl

30 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

  Fraught With Pearl   The road to hell is fraught with pearl.Why shouldn't I be traumatized? The road to hell is fraught with pearl.Shiny people going down. The road to hell is fraught with pearl.Stars from underneath the earth,burning in their bed...

Wasted & Insatiable

28 Sep 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:"  Deuteronomy 29:19 "Rock & Roll will die." ...

Rock & Roll Isn't Evil

27 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I've been caged like a wild catBy fools who don't know where it's at"Iggy & The Stooges   A lot of Christian music doesn't speak to me.  Much of it doesn't do anything for me at all.  Some of it makes me wonder if hell isn't such a bad place after a...

American Ayatollahs & Artless Fundamentalism

5 Sep 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I can't write about this topic anymore.  Not only because it makes me viscerally nervous and ill, but because to say it a thousand more times would be even more gratuitous than it already is.  The only reason I'm writing this is so I never have to wr...

The 8-Bit Existential Allegory

27 Aug 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I'm older-school than most.  There are older people who are older-school than me, by virtue of being older than me, and having therefore gone to school sooner, but I'm older-school than most.  I remember when video games all had to be different, inst...

Garage d'Or

18 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Today is the 10-year anniversary of Garage d'Or, my distorted rock album.  Many of the songs were very old when they were recorded 10 years ago, but they never found a place on any of the other albums.  Tired of waiting, the songs started a mutiny, a...

Mandatory Blanket Passports in the Old West

17 Aug 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Most people don't know that in the Old West, The U.N. and New World Health Organization distributed free blankets to the Native populations of the Western Territories.  Touting a forced, disingenuous interest in the "BIPOC" communities of the day, we...