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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.
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March 10, 2024March 10, 2024Martin Haro

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 […]

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November 3, 2023April 12, 2025Martin Haro

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 […]

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October 26, 2023August 18, 2024Martin Haro

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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October 13, 2023August 12, 2024Martin Haro

Killers Who Are Partying

What is happening right now is not normal. We were not designed to be in a state of war, of constant alert. A good thing that we are capable of defense, but it isn’t necessary or healthy to be in a consistent state of alarm, or outrage, of pain. And yet, that’s what’s been going […]

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July 12, 2023August 18, 2024Martin Haro

San Francisco, 7.12.23

Meanwhile, some people still out there raging war, trying to strip others of their unalienable rights, raping and pillaging the planet – and they’re “in charge”? In what reality do they live that their priorities are so whack. We are so clearly and painfully aware of how bad humanity can be, I’m so curious of […]

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May 18, 2023August 18, 2024Martin Haro

#SanFrancisco, 5.18.23

You know what is the problem with #SanFrancisco (anywhere with a fucked situation, really): People don’t listen and don’t make the meaningful effort to meet other people where they are. Fucking doctors don’t listen. So-called allies don’t listen. Even strangers that want something from you don’t listen. And then, they all get all bent outta […]

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April 27, 2023August 18, 2024Martin Haro

It’s So Perverse, That’s Why It Works

First they let your kids die. In school, at church, at the club, at the movies – everywhere. Then, they don’t do anything about it, and they get in the way of everyone that tries to make it better. They let you simmer in it, get angry. Then, angrier. At your angriest, you see the […]

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August 31, 2022December 11, 2022Martin Haro

Art and the City

I enjoy museums. I love museums in the summer New York City. Where else to be: Refreshing art and AC? I’d subscribe, but I live in foggy San Francisco. Time with the culture is time well spent. All of the ways. Always. It’s chill.

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August 30, 2022April 19, 2023Martin Haro

How Lucky

How lucky I am that I get to travel. That I get to commune with artworks that hang, stand, are in museums in capitals of the world. That I get to enjoy safety and comfort in realities that I know all too well are filled with just as much despair, and joy, as that of […]

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March 22, 2022April 22, 2022Martin Haro

Nob Hill, 3.22.22

Sudden colds, then sudden heat. Suddenly the day after tomorrow is here today. And the dogs panted. For the Earth was ours with them to share. Pant, pant. And about our business we all went. Pfoof.

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