There also were immigrant children separated from their parents and locked up in cages like animals, without reason or due process. Some died, even. In America. In 2019. The weaponization of ICE is real. The decent people of Mississippi must resist this totalitarian move by a wannabe regime led by a cunt. Betchu none 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.
Open Your Eyes
On the subject of gun control in America or the egregious, criminal, and deadly lack of it, everybody knows the damn truth. Nothing’s gonna change, nothing is going to improve, no life will be spared while Mitch McConnell, the longtime senator from Kentucky, is still in power. That motherfucker is the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senate leader […]
And I Am Telling You
So I was told to “go back,” today at work. “Back where I came from.” By – who else – an old, white, male friggin’ toothless monster. This happened. In America, in 2019. In San Francisco. So much for peace and love. What happened around here? The Summer of Love was not that long ago. Without going […]
The Audacity of America
Something has got to give. This is America, and, America – ya gotta change. The white-nationalist domestic terrorism is real, and it has been allowed to be deadly for far too long. It has been two decades since Columbine. Schools, bars, clubs, malls are no longer safe. Neither are churches or synagogues or mosques. The […]
The Caucacity
This happened. In America, in 2019. In San Francisco. A woman asked me which bottle of sauce would be spicier. This happened at my job, about which I haven’t written much because this isn’t about them and I don’t want inferences getting made about them because this isn’t about them, and that is not the […]
The Dirty Dick
A Dirty Dick is a brostastic (yeah…in his head) upwardly mobile-looking, decent-seeming dude, that tosses his hot cigarette butt on the (wooden – like, really?) temporary bus platform that has been set up in front of my front door, without a single care in the world. Not a one. Such is the Dirty Dick’s gall that […]
The Thing About Portugal
The thing about Portugal is one moment you’re in a crowded library in Porto, surrounded by Potterheads seeking to be in a space author J.K. Rowling may have once occupied while working there back in the day, or so the story goes, and the next you can get lost in your head and find silence […]
Postcard Québécoise
Québec’s public-art activations, such as Max Streicher’s tucked-away-in-Vieux-Québec “Fin de partie (Nagg et Nell),” are lovely finds for those who aren’t searching. Quite the dichotomous dance between freedom of expression and oppression this one, eh? It is so pretty around this village town. Everywhere you look there’s a flower box. It’s summer; a rainy night […]
Playlist Rainbow X 2019
Pride is being. Here and now. Pride is the Golden Rule. It’s looking at people in the eye when you need or want something from them, like at the store or the bank or the post office. It’s saying “Hello,” “Please,” and “Thank you.” It’s also offering something, too. It’s Ama Sua, Ama Llulla, Ama Quella […]
#DoMore, Dems
Yeah, I get to make the suggestion. I purchased T-shirts to show my support, when I made my donations to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign and that of Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro this spring. The 2020 election is on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Of 2020. That is next year. A […]
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