Not gonna lie: I still fuck with Original Flavor reputation. I know, I know. I have been waiting for Taylor’s Version. I am waiting. I’m waiting.
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.
Can You Imagine?
The New York-born artist Michael Bailey, per the Whitney’s description, based this painting on diagrams of a ship carrying abducted Africans to the Americas that were published in 1780 by an English abolitionist group. No need to imagine it. This is how they did it.
Death
It’s tough when a loved one who never hurt you dies. They are in such short supply.
San Francisco, 5.21.24
Why are people so pressed about and focused on Bennifer, when there’s a big ol’ Diddy right there?
1.6 million
That’s the approximate number of people that turned up on Copacabana beach in Rio do Janeiro to see Madonna perform a free, additional show of her sold-out “Celebration Tour” on May 4. That crowd waited and grew exponentially for days ahead of the show, in temperatures that reached 30 degrees Celsius, and when the time […]
Protests on Campuses
Universities don’t silence, they amplify. They promote and share knowledge and research and community. The time for peaceful protest is now. This situation is global and humanity has to be heard and the response of the powerful must reflect the spirit of the moment. No one in their right mind wants more war for profit, […]
We Are World Central Kitchen
The fact that a convoy of World Central Kitchen workers – a flagless, borderless non-profit with a focused mission to help feed humans in moments of crisis – was stomped out of existence, that peace seeking was snuffed so cavalierly, cannot be ignored. All they do is help, boots on the ground, everyone everywhere, without […]
For Your Consideration: Peace
Being destructive isn’t brave. Peace may not be as lucrative, but it cannot be ignored – no matter what today’s Academy Awards ceremony might suggest. There is more money in crisis, but we neither have to participate in the persistent lunacy of the game of war nor tolerate its most involved players (after all, it […]
What Leading with Anger Looks Like
What is happening in Gaza is stunning. And yet, I am not stunned. I’m calloused by the world’s self-immolation. There will be no cease of fire at this time. There’s too much anger and perceived strategic advantages that unimaginably outweigh the lives overlooked and ended. But it must be said that this is what leading […]
San Francisco, Today
Natural disasters, however Man-fueled, cannot be prevented – they can only be managed…survived. But Man-made disasters like wars, that we can do without (if we really wanna). So help. Help the people of Acapulco, the people on your streets, the people we all know need our help the most. Fuck it, help yourself by not […]
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