Everything is relative to when and where you are…. And methinks that if, a whole looong year of global COVID-19 pandemic later (which our myriad privileges may have allowed us to feel…or not), if after all o’ that, and then some, more of us aren’t more “we” people than before, then we have not been […]
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.
Half a Mill
A year-ish, give or take…depending on where you are, since the global COVID-19 pandemic thrust humanity into a long season of self-isolation and systems-shocking quarantine, America has lost more than 500,000 people to the novel coronavirus. More than half a million humans gone, only in the United States of America. The global death toll is […]
‘I Care a Lot’ x King of Cups
Rosamund Pike – with whom, I admit, I haven’t revisited since she oh-so-memorably Gone Girld her way to her first Academy Award nomination (I ought to check out A Private War and Radioactive, in which she portrays Marie Curie) – well, she’s back, playing hell-on-heels power caretaker/swindler or the elderly, Marla Grayson, in writer-director J […]
Will Smith Has a Lesson in Citizenship for Us
We have considered the 13TH; now, today, let’s learn about the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868. Hosted by One Strange Rock host with the most (and executive producer) Will Smith, Amend: The Fight for America is a new Netflix docu-series that zeroes in on the long slog, ever evolving…often lethal…, toward equal rights in the United […]
The Eddie Murphy Collective
I mean I knew about Eddie Murphy, but I didn’t know my Eddie Murphy…. Murphy came onto the scene a month and 48 Hrs. after I did back in 1982, you see, so it wasn’t until 1996, the year that also gave us his Nutty Professor remake, that I like, hopped onto the Eddie Murphy […]
Acquitted but Not Forgotten
Not in the mood for a second fun and expected Saturday morning surprise, huh, America. Fucking le sigh. He must be so happy – sooo happy – now that he’s beyond O.J.: Donald Trump, the Twice Impeached, was acquitted (I know!) of the charge of incitement of insurrection, because obviously. Seven Republicans did join the […]
A Comment Re: London Breed & Gavin Newsom
Get a life, people. It clearly, demonstrably, undeniably is one thing to harp on Donald – yuck…too early – Trump, and it is quite a ridikolous other to sue the governor as a pressure tactic to get restaurants to reopen, when schools ought to be the priority. Newsom, much like San Francisco Mayor London Breed […]
We Have Such a Beautiful Bay
The San Francisco Bay’s not for spilling oil in it; I don’t care it was an accident, Chevron. Why are we still having these type of “accidents,” anyway? Don’t a lot of people get paid lots of money to ensure things like this don’t happen? What’s it gonna take? A Beirut-type of incident? (Take a […]
Dare Greatly, America
The second impeachment of Donald “the Impeached” Trump can go ahead, for a trial is Constitutional. The U.S. Senate voted on it, OK…56-44, with six Republicans growing a spine and joining all 50 members of the Democratic caucus. For the ultimate in white privilege (oh, that’s right…), can you believe there was a debate? That […]
‘Two of Us’ x King of Cups
Et voilà, c’est le weekend…le moment parfait pour être à Deux – which means it’s the weekend, and you have to seek out and On Demand Filippo Meneghetti’s Two of Us, the Italian filmmaker’s debut as feature-film director and France’s entry into the Best International Feature Film race at the upcoming and oh-so-pandemical 93rd Academy […]
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