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 […]
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.
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. […]
And Remember, Kids…
Everything is relative to where and when you are – so the advice holds: Don’t be an asshole. And to the adults in the room who are acting the fools, you realize that kids have eyes and ears, and feelings, and fears, and hopes and dreams, and ideas, right. Right? Wake the fuckity fuck up, […]
Pandemic Peeps: Paul Clemence
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 […]
How to Save a Life
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 […]
She Was That
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 Peace Playlist
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 […]
Who Doesn’t Want to Be a
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, […]
People Without Children
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 […]
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