They cannot deny you. Oh, they will try. But you will know, and you will have done your part. Go ahead and do you part, respond to the 2020 U.S. Census. We all got time now. It really is super-easy, and it won’t take forever. Ten minutes; maybe, 15. And it’s all about you, so […]
Don’t go getting any ideas about summer. How ever could we have known, that the spring season’s arrival was on notice 10 weeks and a day ago, when I started to reflect on what I would want to teach the kids – my nieces and nephews – about life, love, liberty, and the pursuit of […]
Dearly beloved, #Iclosemyeyes…and we’re back at the train station in Salerno, on our way to celebration in Rome. It’s rainy, and remarkably quiet for a while, but then again, it is middle of the day on a Wednesday. There’s thunder and lightning. It’s almost August, after all. É uno spettacolo italiano d’estate. And I can’t wait […]
The thing about that most well-chronicled of American pop traditions, the Met Gala, or the Met Ball, is I used to write about it on my Movie Martin blog, filing under “Fashion” because, in my estimation, the soirée was and remains a fashion event about fashion. It exists for fashion, in the service of fashion, because of […]
I wrote “Chasing Waterfalls” for the December 2014 issue of Miami Living. I was living back in Peru for a bit after leaving Miami, when my dad and I took a trip to the breathtaking Iguaçu National Park, which separates Brazil and Argentina. Afterward, I detailed how and why Miamians should follow suit and think […]
Face masks – face coverings like, say, a homemade cloth mask, or an effectively wrapped scarf, or a cleverly fashuned scarf – will be required while out in public moving forward, #San Francisco, starting tonight. (You do not need to fuck with the N95 masks, so don’t hoard those, OK.) I thought face masks already […]
#Iclosemyeyes…and I’m back at the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec (MNBAQ), which we visited last summer and where I focused on “Blues” (1971) by Rita Letendre OC OQ OOnt, the Canadian multimedia artist. Letendre is the 2016 Laureate of the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas, the highest distinction awarded to an artist in recognition of […]
What more is there to say about Willow Street (I’ve said and written it all before), except other than know what I liked the most about Willow Street? Weeping as though it may have been, Willow knew what it was, OK. Always. And everyone around it, los unos y los otros, any who ever was […]
Pandemic or no pandemic, the culture’s gonna do what the culture’s gonna do – good, bad, and fugly. That much is true. But where is the cultural responsibility in America in 2020? Where is the collective that is humanity on Earth at this point in time? Winter was, spring is barely gonna be. Urgh, and, some people, […]
Y mueve la cabeza también. Mueva la cabeza, especialmente en estas épocas de pandemia, o se pone tiesa. Y no te hagas mala sangre cuando veas que hay gente en la calle corriendo o caminando con el perro porque realmente no vale la pena; no los conoces y no sabes cuál será su historia. Estamos viviendo […]
King of Cups 