January 19, 2021 1.20.2009: A new hope View this post on Instagram A post shared by VA (@vene_la_green_eyez)
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 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…
October 11, 2019 Descansa en paz, Maria Elena I’ve had a lot of unusual experiences on Facebook. I don’t keep many acquaintances there and I’m not looking for friends. I don’t bond…
May 28, 2019 Oy with the poodles already! I’ve said a lot about this one. The Odyssey Storytelling November 2018 Of all the people I ever met, he was one I wish…
April 21, 2019 2005 That was the year that preppy girls got their swerve on drinking cosmos with future doctors in Jacuzis in apartment complexes, covered in coconut…
April 17, 2019 Notre Dame There’s a gravel path that crunches under my feet. We’re racing against the light. A casual walk in our neighborhood in the 3rd arrondisement…
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…
