The first of the year
Is filled with trepidation:
A fearful nation.
Max Q
Sartre was in the cart:
Absurdity and freedom
Chimed a perfect verse.
Max Q
In intensive care,
life departs with alarms, shouts
I'd prefer silence
Bill
Watching the sunset
It doesn’t end or begin
Nothing is final
Rikosan
Hero Rake-man strikes
Leaf blower mindset falters
Sweeping scales from eyes
Maeve
Today on Out and About, I will be playing some highlights from Hour 3 of KYRS’s coverage of October’s No Kings’ Protest. This next year will be pivotal for you, as a human being, and for our nation, as its flickering beacon of democracy will either be rekindled or extinguished forever.
Join the people who stepped up to show their integrity, their honor and their courage by being vocal and creative opponents to those who threaten our freedom, our livelihoods and our basic human rights. Veterans, retirees, school children, farmers, police officers, teachers, nurses, scientists, union members, cis people, clergy, small business owners, trans people, straight people, queer people - all good people who are motivated by honor and human decency - standing together with one voice to oppose the dark, authoritarian destruction which has gripped our nation.
2026 will be a historical year. Generations to come will ask which side you were on. I hope you can hear this loud and clear in this broadcast.
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
A 2 for Christmas:
Put that in my stocking, please,
Santa - you rascal.
Max Q
Long legs, running fast
Woman reaches for the sun
Aluminum scaffold
Laurel
Things are looking up
Winter solstice behind us
Longer days ahead
Bill
Cold December rain
Living in the mud and gloom
Wishing for winter
Rikosan
Soul’s sorbet softens
Melted by bright Christmas lights
True all of my life
Maeve
Today on Out and About, I will be hanging out with my wife Sarah and we will be playing some holiday song parodies that I really like! We live under a political regime that is so over-the-top criminal, stupid, evil and narcissistic, that it is almost impossible to do anything parodical or satirical about them. But, we still have holiday music parodies. In my opinion, they are not song parodies about Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanza, but about how we (or others) have worked hard to go in the opposite direction of what these holidays (in a religious or secular fashion) call us to live. They are parodies about our response to the holidays.
All to say, fart music is funny. I will fight for Flatulina’s Holiday Spectacular album in the most jolly and vicious manner, no matter what the season.
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
Haiku Friday December 19, 2025
I’m stuck in traffic,
Can’t move for the ambulance:
A guilty pleasure.
Max Q
Bellyaches today:
Got them Voodoo Ranger Blues.
Oh, bibulous me!
Max Q
Sun low in the sky
Shining off the black water
A cold winter light
Bill
The ceiling lifted
In time to catch the darkness
Swallow the mountain
Rikosan
Anti Christ “Christians”
Pete’s demons mocking Jesus
Nail pounding a child
Maeve
