America got called out tonight, in the best way possible – and, don’t you know, don’t you know, by America herself. Night 2 of 2020’s most unconventional Democratic National Convention featured an inspired virtual roll call that was so brilliantly executed in these times of COVID-19 TV. People, real everyday Americans, from every state and […]
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.
157
Lest you forgot, it has been 157 days since 26-year-old E.M.T. Breonna Taylor was shot and killed, in her own home, during some sort of an overreach-y raid out in Louisville, Ky., earlier this year… right before COVID-19 hit. Don’t act like you forgot, especially because no arrests have been made. Where is the justice? […]
Twin Peaks, 6.25.20
El triángulo color rosado fue la insignia designada a los homosexuales en los campos de concentración (cada “tipo” de prisionero fue asignado un color, para degradarlos, deshumanizarlos, y estigmatizarlos). Los triángulos rosados fueron diseñados más grandes que otros, para que resalten más los usuarios, para vulnerabilizarlos y alienarlos aún más. Hoy en día, el triángulo […]
Lady Loop
The multi-hyphenate dynamo that is Janelle Monáe was set to headline Antebellum, her first starring vehicle, in the spring – but then came COVID-19. Wah, wah. Monáe was to be seen on the big screen as Veronica Henley, a successful author, who finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality – one that is mortifying, discombobulating, […]
Truth or Dare
Truth: We’ve come a long way from 1991, haven’t we. Another wise lady (Bethenny Frankel) once said, “Mention it all.” Well, on their new collab, “WAP,” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion just about cover it all. I’m fucking “Levitating,” Blessed Madonna-style, but “I want you to touch that lil’ dangly thing that swing in […]
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Some negative Nancies be like…. But I am so here for the Blessed Madonna’s remix of Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” a song off of the Best New Artist Grammy-winning English singer’s COVID-19-proof, after all, sophomore effort, Future Nostalgia, because it is a fire ride. Fiya, I tell ya. 🔥 Featuring Madonna and, skrrt, Missy Elliott, the […]
That’s the Ticket!
It’s gonna be Biden-Harris FTW come Nov. 3, America – so vote or die alongside western democracy at the hands of the Trumps and their masters and their terroristical MAGA Nation. Think of Lady Liberty. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, indeed, has chosen Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California, to be his running […]
150
It has been 150 days (a little more than that for some of us) of self-isolation, of quarantining, of living in a state of emergency – whatever you wanna call it – and of systemic and willfully ignorant failures by governments (and overprivileged peoples), but also of of self-realizations and revolution. Thanks, COVID-19! As of […]
The Onions
So there might be salmonella in the onions (and listeria in some citrus) – so you might wanna check in with your local grocer and/or rid your home of the aforementioned produce, should you have it on hand. Fucking A, the hits they keep on comin’, huh. Last week, while volunteering with the San Francisco-Marin […]
Miami Beach, 12.9.18
I first became aware of Dawoud Bey at the end of 2018, in Miami Beach, when I was out there working on this fun #MiamiArtWeek2018 content. I remember it was a real the-rain-has-passed kinda Sunday afternoon on Indian Beach Park, where the PULSE Miami Beach art fair had set up shop for its 14th edition. […]
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