So you wanna be governor of California? Why? And your taxes, please. We are all well aware here in America that the rich and the big corporations, and, of course, the common con, possibly, more than likely do not pay their fair share o’ taxes. And guess what, California, and thus Ms. Jenner and her […]
Author: Martin Haro
I am cultural writer from Lima, Peru. Now publishing from San Francisco. #KingofCups
Y2K didn't happen, but I did move to Florida in the year 2000. Miami was kind of the vibe for me during the '90s, so into the new millennium and the Magic City I went, for college and to find whatever life now could and would be. I graduated from Florida International University, then went to work in its in-house communications/marketing department, as a writer, video producer, and associate editor of "FIU Magazine," the university's flagship alumni publication.
By the time I got to work at FIU I'd already been working with and writing for the weekly "Wire Magazine" on the beach and the periodical "Miami Living" magazine, writing my Movie Martin blog, contributing to the occasional "Awful Truth" by Ted Casablanca once upon a time on E! Online. Later, I started stringing story for "Us Weekly." That was fun. It was all kinds of a heckuva lot of fun.
King of Cups is my new empirical, memoiristic non-linear independent writing exercise. (Independent: Rhymes with unpaid, as in this is free, so represent and support, OK. Amplify the shit.) I mince no words, I mean no harm, and I come in peace.
Hot 🥵 Summer
If you are a global-warming denier or know someone who hasn’t been believin’ in climate change (and somehow getting in the way of any sort of sensical large-scale worldwide preparation), please, fuck off and remember and/or know that last year, in 2020, Death Valley National Park didn’t register a 130-degree temperature until the middle of […]
The Lambda You Wait…
The longer we wait to #VaccinateOurWorld, the longer the global COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic will keep going (and going, and going), infecting and killing who knows how many more of us, and mutating into something more and more unmanageable. Oh, you think your life has been disrupted by having to wear a mask or by […]
A Closer Kilmer Look
Is it sacrilege to know Val Kilmer really only from his turn as the second Batman, from the first run of Cape Crusader movies we got back in the ’90s? It is, isn’t it. I never watched Top Gun. Obviously, I understand the actor from other stuff; he has done quite a varied bit, after […]
‘The Tomorrow War’ x King of Cups
This isn’t a Chris Pratt hit piece, but how can I put this so you pick up what I am putting down: The Tomorrow War should’ve stayed yesterday’s pitch meeting. Helmed by seasoned animation director Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie), this ambitious Amazon Studios pandemic-era direct-to-streaming acquisition features Pratt, who also executive produced, as […]
Polk Street, 6.27.21
And don’t you forget it: Pride was a riot. Last year, COVID-19 could not cancel Pride, and the celebration went virtual, was illuminated – it carried on. Closer to the streets, the people got back to basics. Some of us called upon the spirit of Pride and the result, at least here in San Francisco, […]
One More Cut
Udo Kier is coming. And he means to leave a mark. Indeed, the iconoclastic German actor – who has appeared in everything from Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein to Suspiria to Madonna’s SEX book to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Armageddon – is set to take a moment in the spotlight this summer, when he stars in […]
OMG, Postcard: #VisitWalnutCreek
It is so pretty out here in Walnut Creek. The Diablo Hills live up to it, alright, but so far, so pleasant. So many trees, such a variety keeping it nice and fresh. No one mentioned there would be deer and wild turkey roaming the streets. I love it. Friendly peeps out there, too, who […]
Traveler Check
There we were summer of 2018, roaming the cloisters of the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal, when news broke that Anthony Bourdain had died. I found solace, reading word of his suicide on my phone, in that we were doing exactly what he had spent the latter part of his life advocating we all do, […]
Juneteenth ❌ MMXXI
So tomorrow’s Juneteenth. Ish. Corporate America is giving millions of American workers Friday off, in observance of June 19 on Saturday. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865, when Texan slaves learned they had been freed, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. I expect that […]
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