As some of us begin to see our communities re-re-re-open this COVID-19 season, let us remember that one person’s moment of quote-unquote freedom almost 11 months into our ongoing global pandemic is barely another’s second-wave cuarentena. Four hundred forty-two thousand Americans have died from this ever-evolving pest, OK, of course to say nothing of the […]
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My Wish for 2021
Upcycle the shit.
The Wind That’s Beginning to Howl
There is a storm ahead, alright. Still. I cannot be sure if last night’s wind spectacular was a normal event that we’d previously simply missed out on witnessing and experiencing – what…a roar – because we lived a little farther south and downhill from our current perch in San Francisco, but that was quite a […]
Impeached…Again!
A president so unnice, he had to be impeached twice. Indeed, Donald “the Impeached” Trump has been impeached…again…by the U.S. House of Representatives – this time with a bipartisan majority – on one charge of “incitement of insurrection,” on account of the undeniable role he played in the Jan 6. treasonous (and deadly) siege of […]
Attention
You guys – they just want attention. You know who they are: We see these folks acting the fools every single day, and a large mob of ’em recently took over the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Oh, for sure, sometimes, we are the asshole – but, fingers crossed, the moment passes you by, […]
Postcard from San Francisco, 11.7.20
The legacy continues, the work is far from done – don’t go thinkin’ it is just ’cause it’s 2021. It is a movement, not a moment. #BlackLivesMatter✊🏽 #TransIsBeautiful💗 #BlackTransLivesMatter🙏🏽 #LoveIsLove❤️ ❌⭕️❌⭕️
301K
Good thing the novel coronavirus vaccine has made its way stateside. Today, nine-ish months after humanity and the world went into lockdown on account of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as the United States of America’s death toll passed 301,000, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, N.Y., became the first American to be […]
Special Delivery
Extra! Extra! Read all about it (Captain Phillips Reunion Alert!): These 2020 Christmastimes, Tom Hanks is gonna have some special News of the World. Directed by Paul Greengrass. It’s five years after the end of the Civil War; Hanks will be playing Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the film, a veteran of three wars, who […]
The COVID-19 Holiday Collective
We get knocked down, but we get up again. The last four years have been tough. And, yeah, by that I mean 2020. It has been a moment, and methinks it’s worth acknowledging it. So drop a pin: We are here. I am here. You’re never gonna keep me down; I’m a survivor. And if […]
Peruvian Here, Lemme Tell Ya
Some Peruvians may be fucking around, alright, but most Peruvians are not fucking around, lemme tell ya. (So if you’re coming my way, just don’t. And do not get it twisted.) Early this evening, Peru, my birth country, swore in its third president in a week, a man named Francisco Sagasti. (I don’t know her.) […]
King of Cups 