At the global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan, China, went into self-isolation, into quarantine, as did the rest of the area, and the infamous pollution that usually blankets the vast Chinese land began to dissipate. Roughly two weeks later, the rain we expected and awaited all winter around the Bay Area finally has begun […]
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.
It Is a Pandemic
Not a pandemonium. This season of the COVID-19 pandemic, please, remember the Golden Rule.
A Tenderloin Comment
Isn’t it high time that this neighborhood that lives so on the edge of renewed vibrancy get a make-over and a new name that’s not predicated on once-upon-a-time stories about police corruption? OMGwyneth, have I tried. I remember it all too well. We were in one of dem double-decker tour buses that traverse the town […]
How to be Vulnerable Without Being Harmful
Working on it. Meantime, while we all are united at last, most, if not all of us on Earth, in this COVID-19 moment, singin’ “Happy Birthday” to ourselves, twice, as we thoroughly wash our hands, let us do remember to turn off the water while we work on cleaning our hands, dreaming about cake we […]
#COVID19
Well ain’t this a kick in the ol’ pants, this virus that ups with the greatest of ease (thank you, global economy!) and goes all over Earth, killing earthlings from here, and there, anywhere, and almost everywhere without discrimination. COVID-19 goes to show ya and remind you that #weareallthesame on the face of the planet. […]
Listen to Your Elders, #SanFrancisco
Listen to your elders, kids. They’ve been around the block rather quite a few more times. And they have all the stories. I met a wise woman named M.J. last week, at the second meeting of the recently assembled San Francisco Street-Level Drug-Dealing Task Force. Look into that, too, OK. Btw, what…a beautiful room that […]
Political Appeal
Jon Stewart is at it again. As a writer-director of politically themed films, that is. The Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning erstwhile king of Comedy Central is following his 2014 directorial debut, the based-on-true-story political thriller Rosewater, with this spring’s Irresistible, a political satire centering on a Democratic National Committee strategist (played by Steve Carell, the former Daily […]
Recognizing Roe
So the FX Networks already have proven that they know drama, with everything from the American Crime Story and American Horror Story franchises and the anthological Fargo to the cult fave You’re the Worst. Now, they’re gonna show us how they do docs. FX is set to premiere AKA Jane Roe, its first documentary feature, […]
Ryan & Brisa Pt. 2
Oh the people you see when you go out to walk your dog…. The hope you find when you’re out with your dog. Ryan and Brisa are alive, still around, and doing alright today. I saw them at Jefferson Square, in the shade of a big tree. The sun is shining, and the temperature is rising for […]
Happy Super Tuesday, America!
Now vote. You make sure you vote now. Democracy is very much at stake (still…in America, in 2020 – I know…crazy, right?), so everything is at stake. Turn it out, kids, and strengthen the shit up. Twitter better be abuzz with voting stories today. Vote. If the count you they cannot deny you. Mi gente, […]
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