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 […]
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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 311 request, for the day: “Broken bottles, car-window bits, cigarette butts, poop – in every other planter or tree square two-three blocks from City Hall. What a disgrace! I put a request for something similar across the street [18 days ago, OK – this is why you keep receipts, people) and y’all couldn’t clean […]
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 she once occupied while working there once upon a time, and the next you can get lost in your head and find silence looking at the occasional display of, say, drawings by […]
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
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 year […]
The Thing About Farrah Fawcett
The thing about Farrah Fawcett is she was kind. To me. Once, 14 years ago. When we met out on a red carpet set up on the beach at the Delano Hotel in Miami Beach. It was a windy, rainy, kinda moody afternoon. Hurricane Katrina was barreling toward New Orleans, bypassing Miami and allowing MTV […]
Dear Governors
Dear Governors, Has this so-called president ever called you to check in, on a random any day, on the welfare of your state? To inquire about what might be needed or to offer assistance to your most vulnerable? To offer protection or, better yet, resources to protect us and ensure our Great Experiment works? Asking […]
