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Jul 27, 2022

Social Marketing to the Stars: Astrology and Saturation

It’s been quite some time since a brand engaging with astrology struck the average user as novel or unique. Now it’s just a part of our lives, if it wasn’t before, online and off. So, half a decade into a saturated landscape, does your brand strategy still need to get…

Social Media

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Social Marketing to the Stars: Astrology and Saturation
Social Marketing to the Stars: Astrology and Saturation
Social Media

5 min read


May 2, 2020

I, for one, am still in love

I wish I knew the name of every tree as intimately as brands of insurance I won’t buy for lives I won’t lead

Poetry

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I for one, am still in love
I for one, am still in love
Poetry

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Mar 20, 2020

From Weird to Worried

A necessary tonal shift in branded social during a global pandemic. It seems it was only yesterday that beloved fast food chains were tweeting that their burgers were “thicc,” sparking conversation centered around their content, to line up and dunk on them or posit whether or not the chain eats…

Social Media

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From Weird to Worried
From Weird to Worried
Social Media

4 min read


Oct 1, 2019

october spaces

Scrolling an artist’s feed in the morning with my coffee and my loathing, color corrected pictures of buildings or incongruous signage…

Poetry

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october spaces
october spaces
Poetry

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Sep 9, 2019

sinner in our savior

lifting every rock in the lower desert looking for salvation scorpions so they may sting me stupid with spirituality,  i find myself in a…

Poem

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sinner in our savior
sinner in our savior
Poem

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Jul 30, 2019

casual eureka

Here I have! And hold all that I am on this perfect Saturday morning The hummingbirds sling orbits outside my window, a dog chases the mail truck! No shit! And how have I never seen that before, America? The mailman is the track-rabbit shimmering Parallel my white picket fence, the…

Poetry

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casual eureka
casual eureka
Poetry

2 min read


Published in

Human Parts

·Jun 25, 2019

There Will Be No Montage

A selection of bad days (and a good one) — When I get out of jail it is a beautiful bright winter day, now absolutely ruined, the taste of cheap bologna and warm boxed milk lingering in my mouth as I squint and re-lace my Sambas. I feel worse than the night my heart stopped, splayed across the staircase leading…

Recovery

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Brittany Murphy’s Grave, and Other Vices
Brittany Murphy’s Grave, and Other Vices
Recovery

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Published in

The Startup

·Jun 17, 2019

There’s Something about The Americana at Brand

In Glendale, California, there stand two neighboring malls, living in harmony for over a decade — until recently. …

Los Angeles

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There’s Something about The Americana at Brand
There’s Something about The Americana at Brand
Los Angeles

6 min read


Jun 4, 2019

Poem for Raquel (Who Is Losing Her Mind, And Maybe That’s Fine…

When you grew me I could not say abuelita nor pronounce the L’s in Tigerlilly but love you loudly I still did and wore my cousins’…

Family

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Poem for Raquel (Who Is Losing Her Mind, And Maybe That’s Fine, Seeing As How We’ve All Wrecked Up…
Poem for Raquel (Who Is Losing Her Mind, And Maybe That’s Fine, Seeing As How We’ve All Wrecked Up…
Family

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May 15, 2019

What You Do or Don’t Deserve

I will not buy a book today about the burning earth or the drought dead ditches my family once from whence ripped citrus and true, our home is dying though I thought there’d be more dancing — the foyer of my heart, it too, a furnace broiling my best intentions spreading my…

Poetry

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What You Do or Don’t Deserve
What You Do or Don’t Deserve
Poetry

1 min read

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