Birds in the oak tree
Scatter (suddenly) northward -
Only to return.
Max Q
The rush of water
A calming susurration
Luring me to sleep
Bill
Clouds pass as they do
Back when the rocks were still soft
In stoned reverie
Rikosan
Manito strolling
Blossoms perfume a stealth punch
Agents of gloom fall
Maeve
Yesterday, I talked with Spokane Pride Executive Director Matt Danielson. We talked about North Idaho's very successful Pride Festival that took place last week. The Pride Festival is already underway, here in Spokane. Tonight at 7 pm, there is an interfaith worship service at St. John’s Cathedral.
Friday is when a lot of stuff starts happening. If you come to Riverfront Park for the Trans Rights Rally on Friday at the Red Wagon (I will be one of the speakers) you can stick around for Yoga in the Park (thank you to COIL) and then the fun really accelerates with shows, music and dancing. Saturday, of course, is the big day with the vendor and food fair starting at 11. The parade at noon (Robert Sevilla and I will once again be playing music, announcing and broadcasting the parade for KYRS), activities all through the day, including a Two-Spirit Powwow, beer garden, food, vendors, shows and performances (on six different stages) in Riverfront Park. After the day’s festivities, you can head over to Nyne for a street fair and dance.
The Pride Festival is family-friendly and open to everyone. If you are already missing Pig Out in the Park, Neighbor Days or any of the other Spokane community celebrations, come on down for some fun. Hang out with a bunch of other kind, and honorable folks.
With our nation being plunged into fascism and the reluctance of legacy media to acknowledge the state we are in, it can be crazy-making. It can cause anxiety and loss of hope. That is exactly what the regime/cult wants you to feel. The Pride Festival is an antidote for that.
Having fun with thousands of other people who value community, kindness, honor, truth and intelligence will make you feel good - no matter who you are - straight, gay, cis or trans. Maybe this is why so many mainline churches, temples and synagogues have participated in Pride each year.
If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260609_160000b.mp3
As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
On today’s show, we will be checking in again with Matt Danielson. Matt’s the director of Spokane Pride.
This weekend is the Pride Festival in Spokane. It’s an event that brings tens of thousands of kind and decent people to Downtown Spokane and Riverfront Park. It’s fun. It’s free. Just being there with a multitude of honorable people will make you feel good, whether you are LGBTQ or not. It is family-friendly and a powerful respite from the continual onslaught of Fascism, lies and violence spewing from the immoral crime family and cult running our nation right now.
This year, KYRS will once again be broadcasting from the start of the parade. We (Creative Mindset’s Robert Sevilla and I) will be playing happy music and announcing the participants as they walk, skate, skip, gallop, ride, swim or drive by. The parade starts at noon and the rest of the day is filled with fun programing. The weather is supposed to be really nice. If you can’t be there, you can listen to the parade on KYRS starting at noon and hear the fun.
The event kicks off at 3 pm in Riverfront Park on Friday with a rally for trans rights. Matt and I will be giving you the lowdown on all the activities that will be taking place this weekend.
I will also be telling you (as usual) when and where all the pro-democracy demonstrations will be taking place this week.
Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Freedom Two Fifty:
A party for the aged. Senility now!
Max Q
Shiitake mushrooms
Golden umbrellas of good
For tonight’s stir fry
Bill
A quest for beauty
By being so well preserved
Free of expression
Rikosan
Rejoice human life
Kindness, honor, grit, love, truth
The Pride Festival
Maeve
Yesterday, on Out and About, I had a fun conversation with Troy Nickerson and Chris Jensen about their play Hand to God. Troy is the director of the show and Chris produced it. This Theater on the Verge production was an incredible thing to witness and was like nothing I had ever seen before. The story, the acting, the puppets, the set - everything was superb. How did they make something this complex, this weird, this moving and this funny?
I was plagued by a failing voice yesterday, and as I type this my voice is completely gone! I have to say I probably haven’t laughed this hard during an interview. If you haven’t seen the play, get your tickets here - https://theaterontheverge.ticketspice.com/hand-to-god
If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here - https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260602_160000b.mp3
As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
I really enjoyed Theater on the Verge’s production of Hand to God, last weekend. The performance was like nothing I had ever witnessed. If you have a chance to see this play, it is very much worth your time and money.
When love, grief and longing get tangled up in a church’s puppet ministry, you know the story is going to be good. Mix in a little possible hand-puppet-demonic-possession? For me? Ambrosia!
This play left me with a lot of questions, though. The performances were so wonderful and the puppets (one in particular) had such believable personalities, I couldn’t help but ask myself - How did they do that? If you’ve seen the play, you will want to tune in. If you haven’t seen the play, tune in and then be prepared to get your tickets here - https://theaterontheverge.ticketspice.com/hand-to-god
Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Slipping on my Crocs:
A morning fashion statement
Of the frugal kind.
Max Q
Busy lady bug
Scurries up a blade of grass
Lost in its own world
Bill
In people less rooms
Still standing or standing still
Chairs can get the blues
Rikosan
Fish story shadow
Glowing light casts peaceful hope
While truth is too bright
Maeve
Yesterday, I talked with Spokane Pride Executive Director Matt Danielson. The Pride Festival is coming up! It’s now a two day celebration. There are plenty of events on Friday, June 12 and the usual big events on Saturday, June 13 which have attracted tens of thousands of people to downtown Spokane every year.
Matt and I spent some time talking about why the Pride Festival is for everyone. It’s a celebration of community for all kind and honorable people. It’s family-friendly too.
With our nation being plunged into fascism and the reluctance of legacy media to acknowledge the state we are in, it can be crazy-making. It can cause anxiety and loss of hope. That is exactly what the regime/cult wants you to feel. The Pride Festival is an antidote for that.
Having fun with thousands of other people who value community, kindness, honor, truth and intelligence will make you feel good - no matter who you are - straight, gay, cis or trans. Maybe this is why so many mainline churches, temples and synagogues have participated in Pride each year.
If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here -https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260526_160000b.mp3
As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
It is almost time for Spokane’s family-friendly Pride Festival. On today’s Out and About, I will be talking with Matt Danielson - Spokane Pride’s executive director. Matt, with the help of so many others, organizes a Pride weekend that attracts tens of thousands of kind and honorable people to Spokane every year.
Whether you are straight or gay, trans or cis, if you are an honorable person, you will find thousands of kindred spirits at the festival. With a regime intent on destroying decency, truth and honor in our nation, this is a great opportunity for all good people to come together and have fun.
I will also be telling you (as usual) when and where all the pro-democracy demonstrations will be taking place this week.
Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Gorgonzola on breadboard
‘Til the dog found it.
Max Q
Ten months of winter
and two months of poor skiing
That's Calgary weather.
Bill
Note - "Calgary" is pronounced with two syllables - "Cal'gry."
Like Davy Crockett
Fighting off the red maggots
At the Capital
Rikosan
Stoke your soul star now
Shine bright against their evil
Life’s sweet pure purpose
Maeve
Yesterday, I talked with Liv Hebert Watkins. Liv is an artist who currently has an installation, The Table Is Set, at the Terrain Gallery until May 30 - Thursday through Saturday, 4-7 pm. Terrain Gallery is located at 628 N Monroe. I really enjoyed hearing about how she has evolved as an artist. Liv works in many mediums and I learned a lot about what it takes to get your art out there. The installation at Terrain has been getting a lot of press and critical acclaim.
Art has become a powerful tool, a rejuvenating oasis and a map forward during these turbulent times. The kindness of creativity and the active empathy that art invokes is smack dab in the middle of what it means to be human. It is resistance to the dehumanizing and disgusting lies, cruelty, stupidity, dishonor and evil that oligarchs, anti-Christ “Christian Nationalists,” Republicans, tech bros, and other miscreants have been secreting all over our nation. We need art now more than ever.
If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, you can take a listen here -https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260519_160000b.mp3
As always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Today on Out and About I am interviewing Liv Hebert Watkins. Liv is an artist whose work is currently featured at the Terrain Gallery - 628 N Monroe. Liv is talented in many artistic facets, including ceramic, painting and jewelry.
Her installation - The Table is Set will be up until the end of the month. Her work has received a lot of press and I am really looking forward to talking with her.
I will also be telling you (as usual) when and where all the pro-democracy demonstrations will be taking place this week
Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery and Eastern Washington University.
Out and About airs every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org. Thanks for listening! Maeve
Here is my painting, so far, for the Forest to Frame benefit for Spokane Art School. I would say I am probably a little over 2/3 done. It is a 16 x 20 acrylic painting on sealed and gesso’d hardboard. It’s called Turkey Vulture of Love and it comes with an original poem about, well, the turkey vulture of love. You can bid on it here https://givebutter.com/c/forest-to-frame-2026/auction/items/1907486/bid.
What have I been listening to, while I paint? I’m glad you asked. I have been listening to cassette tapes - the Blue Velvet Soundtrack, Marty Robbins, Mojo Nixon, The Cars, The Clash, Devo, etc. Some real “get in the head of the turkey vulture” tunes.
If you want to read the poem, here it is. I collaborated with Nick the Beet in writing it and he is taking the credit for the words (it’s in our contract).
Turkey Vulture of Love
To try and mend a broken heart
Went I to the Forest of Finch
Begging nature to do her part
When a flicker made me flinch
Laying alone was I - supine
A rose petal rode the sky
Not from a branch of oak or pine
Released from heaven on high
Soaring smooth circles overhead
Dark form against gray so murky
Found myself surprised - not dead
T’was a vulture best known as turkey
In its strong beak he clasped a rose
Guess that’s from where the petal fell
The message seemed too on the nose
A tale he tried too hard to sell
Still his soaring made me think of
Words, deeds I should have said and done
Callousness that lost me my love
Teardrops fell with the setting sun
My sadness seemed to catch his eye
His holding pattern he did flee
He quit his current loop quite shy
And he landed right next to me
His presence gave me quite a start
The rose in his maw brushed my head
I tried to still my beating heart
And in my ear he clearly said
“I carry a rose in my beak
It has nothing to do with you
It’s for my mate that I do seek
She’s just broken out of the zoo
This flower’s hers to show my love
Sorry, I must not tarry on
I stopped to circle you above
Thinking you might be some carrion”
With that he rose off on his way
Giant wings with chicken’s feet
Which way he flew, I couldn’t say
As I moved quickly to my seat
What I learned that day on forest lawn
Turkey vulture, and me a winner
Grateful for my life, still I’ll be gone
When he brings his date for dinner
Nick the Beet
