Today, please call!

Today, I am going to do something that is very hard for me - ask for money. Not for me but for our community radio station - KYRS. I have $200 that I will use to match your donations until the $200 runs out. $3.00 a month buys you a membership to the station. You’ll get a cool bumpersticker. If you want to give more, the membership gifts increase. If you are already a member, please think about making a one-time gift in addition to your membership.

By helping KYRS stay on the air, you will be preserving a lifeline for our democracy. KYRS is a pro-democracy radio station, so even when they shut the Internet down, you will be able to hear what is really happening in our world. We receive no government funding. Accordingly, we can bring you truthful news, without worrying about losing funding from the regime. That’s why we can broadcast national shows (which we have to pay for) like Thom Hartmann and Democracy Now. You can also tune into unfiltered local news from Free Range and KYRS’s Spokane Local News. Those of us who have shows are volunteers. We don’t get paid. We do it because we want to serve you.

The first Americans that the Trump Administration declared war on were transgender people. My show Out and About gives voice to LGBT folks, as well as straight allies - artists, small business owners, activists, healthcare workers, educators and all those who work to make our region a better place for all. My show provides information on where anti-fascism protests are occurring in our community. KYRS reports live from all pro-democracy events - including the No Kings Protests, the Pride Parade and Festival and many other community celebrations.

Please tune in today between 4 and 6 pm. That’s when I will be on the air. You can listen on your radio at 88.1 or 92.3 fm. You can also livestream at kyrs.org . I will be playing a little music and talking with my friend Robert. Robert is the host of Creative Mindset. The number is (509)747-3807. We have one person who volunteered to answer the phones, so if it’s busy, or keeps ringing, please call back. Thanks, Maeve

Haiku Friday - March 6, 2026

 

Haiku Friday March 6, 2026

Lizard on the oak, 

Espying the bees below:

Honeydew morsels. 

Max Q 

The man in the moon 

A face of surprised madness 

Staring down the sun 

Rikosan

This dark force festers…

Hating joy, love, creation.

Happiness kills it. 

Maeve

Yesterday's Out and About - Adam Bodhi and Abrar...

 

Yesterday,  I had two guests on the show. Adam Bodhi is an artist who works in acrylics and digital art. His work has been featured in many places. This Friday you can check it out in two different locales. We talked about how he got started in his work and how being a person with autism informs his art. My other guest was Abrar. Abrar will be hosting a new KYRS show soon called Roots and Rhythms. It sounds like a really cool show. Abrar will interview people from different cultures, share that culture’s music and also share recipes. It will be on Saturday afternoons, so stay tuned for that. As it turns out, Abrar is an artist, as well! So, we all shared a lot of notes about our practices and how we are making art these days. 

And, as always, I gave everyone a listing of the different protests that they could participate in this week. 

If you missed yesterday’s Out and About, here’s a link to the radio station’s archived recording -  https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260217_160000b.mp3

 Thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery, Eastern Washington University and Breathing Room. 

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's Out and About - Abrar and her new show Roots and Rhythms...

Today on Out and About, I will be interviewing someone who is starting a new show on KYRS. Her name is Abrar and her show is called Roots and Rhythms. I am told it is a show about different cultures in our area. From the description I have been given, it sounds like there will be discussion around a lot of aspects of different cultures, including music and recipes. I am looking forward to meeting Abrar. I like the idea of a recipe tie-in to culture. Maybe I will share one of mine on the air.

I will start the show with a quick listing of activism events promoting freedom and democracy that are taking place in Spokane this week. I am going to do this every week. Plus, I am hoping to play a new Nick the Beet spoken word piece about radio, namely his love for KYRS. 

And, as always, thank you to my underwriters - Boots Bakery, Eastern Washington University and Breathing Room. 

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 - February 27, 2026

A sunny, breezy
Sunday afternoon we have:
Northeast envious.

Max Q

Lizard on the wall,

Basking in the noonday sun:

Alley cats lurking. 

Max Q

Oh! She bit his dick;

Oh! He punched her in the head. 

News that’s fit to print. 

Max Q 

Searching for treasure 

In a sea of plastic junk

All the good times gone 

Rikosan

They love pedo crooks

Rapists, killers, conmen, thieves

The Republicans

Maeve

Nick the Beet - Beet the Clock

 

Beet the Clock

Time is running out

For politicians

For those who guard the gate

Of mild reform and timid talk

Money, time, health, our souls slowly stolen

Not by strong arms but by weak wills

  and the tarpit of comfort

   Coming for us

    Calling to us

“Join us in our stupor, in our slumber

Thank us when we think for you - “

the algorithm

the Russian bot farms

the rapist pastors

the lying news channel

the bloated orange corpse

the prosperous pedos

You could see them for what they are but

You

Will

Lose

The company of fools

The safety of mistaken surety

Evolution ticks on

as you fade

Into your foolish, fascist sunset

Nick the Beet

Out and About Recap - February 24, 2026

I kicked off the radio show with a listing of all the protest opportunities this week. Then I played a satirical radio show I made last summer lampooning those wacky ICE misfits. It was episode one and I never made anymore. Maybe for good reason.

I asked for some feedback and I received a phone call. But it was a wrong number and not feedback. Wouldn't you know it, it was Mr. Freeze. Yes, that Mr. Freeze. He was trying to speak to his therapist, so I asked therapeutic questions. He was very upset with being identified with the nasty true villains of ICE. Lots of trauma there. 

Later on, Kermit the Frog called in and he was so upset with funding being cut for PBS that he decided the only way to get funding restored would be to join the well-funded angry, emotional, deranged people who seem to be the darlings of the Trump administration. Kermit debuted his new song - It's Not Easy Being Mean. And I got a little choked up. 

If you missed yesterday’s Out and About,  here’s a link to the radio station’s archived recording -  https://archive.kyrs.org/mp3/kyrs_260224_160000b.mp3

And, as always, I would like to thank my underwriters - Boots Bakery, Eastern Washington University and Breathing Room. 

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