Knock, knock. Who’s there? Month 5. Month 5 who? Yeah, y’ know…Month 5 (dude) of the COVID-19 global pandemic and – shudder – of this generalized global shutdown that has ensued and that stubbornly won’t let up unless we all wear our masks, already, and we all make ourselves scarce so that we are not […]
You can’t. Unless you’re a doctor, you cannot even try to save a life. Not unless first you have saved yours, in whatever way you can or need or want, whathaveya. My friend Milton Giron, whom I met at Trader Joe’s, died last week, on July 30, aged 59. Just like that. I don’t have […]
Before One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, there was Ratched. Mildred Ratched. What, did you think Nurse was her name? From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Netflix’s upcoming Ratched is a suspenseful drama that doubles as the origin story of the notorious asylum nurse known as Nurse Ratched, a character first embodied at the movies […]
The first step in a revolution is the one you take for yourself, only then can there be 🎧➡️peace. Some sort of it, anyway. Charity begins at home, after all. What can I tell ya, other than we gotta shake it off. We do. All of us, today, as a culture, as the people of […]
Kajillionaire. That’s the title of the new Miranda July film that, like so others, was coming into 2020 hot from last January’s Sundance Film Festival. Things have changed. My, how have they. Anyway. The film, which was much-sought-after and boasts Oscar-winning producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (12 Years a Slave, Moonlight) among its champions, […]
We are some wisdom, so listen to us. The buck stops with us. All we ever do is try to improve ourselves, so that we can live with ourselves. We are the essence of time. We come and we go, and what we leave behind is who we were and what we learned while on […]
Top of the morning to ya, folks…world. Here in San Francisco, we are off to our first virtual AIDS Walk: Live at Home at 10:00, with Team Levi’s. What can I tell ya, I’m a Levi’s bitch – but I am not COVID-19’s. #SanFrancisco! Our AIDS Walk has teamed up with AIDS Walk New York on […]
COVID-19 isn’t a crisis anymore. It is a failure, of our leadership and of our humanity. There it is. And here we are (still), looking like we didn’t know this novel coronavirus was this much of an existential threat (there is no vaccine! it spreads easy and fast! it can kill you or your loved […]
To echo what Zac Efron says on the Lima, Peru, ep of Down to Earth with Zac Efron, the muliti-hyphenate’s new Netflix travelogue, the Earth is burning. We know this, we’ve known this. We have seen it, felt it, smelled it. (R.I.P. Lewis). From beneath you it devours, after all. Previously on the pandemic, China’s […]
No matter what fresh bullshit 2020 had to serve, still’s got to serve, Pride 2020 could not, would not be cancelled. In fact, it shone brighter than ever in San Francisco. We were Illuminated. A part of something rather than apart of it. To l’amour!
