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Category: Storytelling and Comedy

January 19, 2021

1.20.2009: A new hope

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January 10, 2021

Threatening the life it belongs to

I’m watching the Fran Liebowitz series on Netflix and my brain is on fire. I agree with 99% of what she says (but disagree…

December 29, 2020

2020: a story in song

View this post on Instagram A post shared by VA (@vene_la_green_eyez) A story compiled from the life I lived this year and the lessons…

December 29, 2020

Instagram highlights: 2020

I began documenting my life in a new way this year. Lots of people use Instagram. But this is how I use it: Tucson…

December 18, 2020

Snowflake: Odyssey storytelling

Phil Gordon reached out to me to invite me to tell a story for The Odyssey in Tucson for December’s Snowflake show. I didn’t…

December 17, 2020

Here to face the fortune and the bile

City life told in the contents of a purse: The purse I stole from my sister Andrea in 1996. It has mother of pearl…

December 6, 2020

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine

There was this kid I grew up from middle school with who was whip crack smart. He was popular and a jock and nothing…

December 5, 2020

That time I wrote the thing about the stuff

And it was only sorta funny.

December 2, 2020

Viva la vida

Can you sense your destiny? I think for most people this isn’t a question they ponder. I think for some people, delusion plays a…

November 30, 2020

Nothing’s gonna stop us now

Being alone is a gift. Having free time is a gift. Having access to books and great minds, likewise. This winter, my goals are:…

November 18, 2020

What I didn’t expect from watching Season 3 of The Crown…it’s a doozy

All is good. I am safe. I am warm. I am loved. But tonight took an unexpected turn down memory lane to a time…

November 10, 2020

Studio 54 exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum

I edited together some of the video and photos I got at the museum exhibit I attended last Friday. I needed to practice editing….

November 8, 2020

Election night, 2020

I’ve just been in my room all day, well since 5 a.m. when I went to bed, and oatmeal cooking and coconut water drinking…

November 1, 2020

Mexico lindo y querido: Day of The Dead (Día de los muertos)

(2017)I miss Día De Los Muertos in Tucson. I used to make own headbands. It was an important part of my life in my…

November 1, 2020

Think of me what you will, I’ve got a little space to fill

I actually do have an idea for a screenplay that I think could work. I don’t know how other writers get their ideas, but…

October 23, 2020

Tyler: in pictures

So Ty is coming out with a new album and we’ve been talking about image. It’s not pertinent to him as an artist. It’s…

October 15, 2020

Pure moods

If you want to summon your soulmate, just say the two words: pot roast. Maddie read those words and zoomed on over last night,…

October 9, 2020

Not the best poem, but I tried

28 and 2/3A poem about the Pioneer Hotel fire December 19, 1970There’s a party going on upstairsI figure I’ll score a couple of drinksAnd…

October 5, 2020

60 Minutes: employees with Autism, Anderson Cooper and me…a diversity and inclusion speaker

If you were watching 60 Minutes last night, you might have caught Anderson Cooper’s segment on companies seeking out potential employees with autism. I…

August 24, 2020

I am thinking it’s a sign

I’m sorry, but this is going to be a mish mash of a million things that only came to light today in their totality…

August 12, 2020

Higher ground

My stomach hurts in the same way it did in third grade when I forgot to do my homework and got saddled with a…

July 13, 2020

Gossip folks

Plummers test sewer lines by pouring dye down a drain and waiting for it to show up in the sewer feed at the curb….

July 2, 2020

Like children often do: Children’s programming as a subversive act and how to bring UCB back

I’ve been kicking this idea around for a decade. It came initially, and probably subconsciously at first, from a movie I saw as a…

June 24, 2020

It’s, like, so bitchin’

Ok, so like OMG, misogyny is totally hidden in a lot of places. Even in linguistic bias. Girls spread linguistic trends faster. They are…

June 23, 2020

A Little Bit of Rain

Marcus Garvey is quiet tonight. 3:34. Is that morning? It’s a rarity in normal times, but even more pronounced laid against I don’t even…

May 14, 2020

When the party’s over

My goal with Instagram is to learn how to tell stories, even made up ones, in novel ways. I’m not there for the vanity….

April 21, 2020

The beginning is the end is the beginning: my dream about UCB Comedy this morning and the woo woo

Bear with me. There be woo woo ahead. I woke up this morning feeling peaceful, which is really fucking great because I’ve been feeling…

March 19, 2020

Mexican Radio: KMKR ‘Is This On’ with Roxy Merari

When I first did Nancy Stanley’s stand up show Estrogen Hour at Laff’s at Tony Paniagua’s suggestion, I didn’t know it would lead to…

April 11, 2019

‘94: The Summer I Learned to Live By Listening to Sunset Boulevard

The summer between freshman and sophomore year of high school my parents decided to pull a cruel maneuver on me. They didn’t enroll me…

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