Lunch before editing. Look here, it’s June 1, 2020. We know what needs to change – the entire world sees it. Here, there, everywhere. This system that discriminates, rapes and pillages, sickens, and shortchanges our brothers and sisters, you, me, it’s got to get an upgrade. Today. It doesn’t work. Hasn’t worked, except for those […]
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The Thing About a Vaccine
It has been a little more than eight months since COVID-19 insinuated itself into our lives, upending our local and global routines, and forcing (most of) us to take a real good look at ourselves and the culture and the world, and really consider our place on our planet. It has been an extended come-to-Jesus […]
Life Is a Memory
Dudes. I was last week years old, when I saw this performance of “Gambler,” from “The Virgin Tour,” by Madonna for the very first time. No. Joke. Like she does during “Nobody Knows Me,” from the “Re-Invention Tour,” this is some energetic shit. Madonna dominates her dance floor stage left; much like during the glorious […]
‘Evil Eye’ x King of Cups
This week, Amazon Prime Video’s Welcome to the Blumhouse adds Evil Eye, directed by Tennesseean twin directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, to its anthological collective. Like Black Box, this is another impeccable production of supernatural proportion (albeit a much more focused one) from Team Blumhouse Television & Amazon Studios. I mean, it’s all right there […]
Remembering the Queen of Tejano
Selena was some kind of queen. Bidi. Bidi. Bom. Bom. That much I knew growing up in the ’90s down in Lima, and that much sunk in after word that the star had been shot dead at age 23 reached Peru. The date was March 31, 1995, so it wasn’t that along, but this was […]
‘Black Box’ x King of Cups
The Blumhouse is taking over opening on Amazon Prime Video, with Black Box and Veena Sud’s The Lie, the first two of an eight-movie anthology o.k.a. Welcome to the Blumhouse, hitting the streaming service today for your entertainment this Halloween season. Another drop – featuring the Priyanka Chopra Jonas-produced Evil Eye and Nocturne – is […]
Vote MMXX: The Playlist
Vote for science, and for decency, America. You know the date (don’t even think to try to say you forgot or you didn’t know): Nov. 3 – be there or be square. Yes, there is quite a lot on the line, but you have the power to make a difference. This is your time. Shine […]
My Two Green Cents
The next election ought to be debated and decided on the environment alone. If it were up to Donald “the Impeached” Trump and his regime (and, fuck, it kinda is…for the moment, anyway – vote), California and the rest of the West Coast might as well burn. Better that way, to repave Paradise and put […]
Totes Original
Artists trying to make it helping others artists trying to make it – that’s what this is all about, OK. Look, all I ever wanted to do was to come to this country and write (and I did and I did…and I am). I never wanted to do anything else. Now, the only thing more […]
Postcard from Huntington Park
What a lovely tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg I saw earlier this week at Huntington Park here in San Francisco. If the deplorable, petty men in “power” refuse to do the right thing and honor the late U.S. Supreme Court justice’s, “most fervent wish…that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” […]
