Today's Out and About - Fourth Annual HALLOWEEN-XSPO!!!!!!

 

One of my favorite annual events is coming up - Halloween X-SPO! This is its fourth year. It is brought to you by the excellent folks behind Lilac City Comicon. I haven’t missed the last three and I am really looking forward to this year’s. I am so fortunate that I will have the founder and coordinator, Nathan O’Brien on today’s Out and About to  talk about all things Halloween X-SPO.

Spooky and fun, there’s plenty of great panel discussions, costume contests, vendors, food and many stars of scary movies for you to meet and greet. Personally,  I am really looking forward to a photo op in front of the Mystery Machine! I bet there will be plenty of Scooby Doos, Shaggys, Freds, Velmas and Daphnes lined up for this one.

If you are looking for a little cosplay or just wanting to give your new Halloween costume a dry run before your big Halloween Party, Halloween X-SPO is the place to be - October 10th and 11th at the Spokane Convention Center. Of course, you don’t have to dress up. But, I have to say, the one year that I went as my alter-ego and scary movie show hostess - Bambi D. Zombie - was positively the best time. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org.

Thank you to my underwriter - Eastern Washington University. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Haiku Friday - October 2, 2026

 

Watching your channel

Last night I wrote a haiku

Whilst I was dreaming

Q

Stealth is sometimes safe

Sometimes being seen is best

Who can say what's safe?

Q

Doing my Best Work

Learning to not care so much

People just want love

Jason 

October is here

Ghosts, Ghouls, Witches and Candy

Might be my ex-wife

Jason

Warrior ethos:

“No beardos, weirdos, or wimps.”

Testosterone, Inc. 

Max Q

They fail it daily:

“The leadership litmus test.”

With God on their side. 

Max Q

Riding high horses:

The patriotic cowboys,

Blue Chew and six guns.

Max Q

Path of destruction 

Like an elephant madness

Swallowing the world 

Rikosan

Garden art sculptures

Sun, wind and rain malforms them 

Poignantly grotesque 

Maeve

Yesterday's Out and About - Sami Perry, No Kings Rally, VOTE EARLY

Yesterday on Out and About, I had Sami Perry on from We Have The Power. We Have The Power is one of the organizations that is putting together the No Kings rally on October 17. The theme of this rally is "Vote Early." Ballots will have dropped a couple days before. There are thousands of ballots in Spokane County that did not get counted last election because they were postmarked too late. Sami says to plan on having your ballot in the mailbox or election dropbox before October 22. With Trump’s fascist influence on the Post Office, I will be dropping off mine at a dropbox and then making sure it gets counted by checking in here at VoteWA.

As far as the No Kings rally, they are trying something a little different this time. The rally will start at 1 pm and continue until 5 pm, same as always. The different thing is that there are three organized marches to the rally site at BA Clark Park - one from Franklin Park. One from Corbin park and another from the Garland Theater. Of course those will start earlier than 1 pm because, you know, walking.

You can find more information on the marches here. You can find out more information about We Have The Power here. If you missed yesterday’s show, you can check it out here.

As always, thank you to my underwriter - 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 - The next No Kings Rally and the upcoming election, with Sami Perry

 The next No Kings protest is coming up fast. This one is going to center on the upcoming election. I know people might get sick of hearing this, but this next election may be the most important election in our nation’s history.

What do rising gas prices, rising grocery prices, the growing homeless population, the defunding of your healthcare, the illegal and immoral wars started by our government, the losing of all of our allies while we cozy up to dictatorships, the assault on our Constitution, the attacks on the free press, the misuse  of our military, the attack on immigrants, the attack on people of color, the attack on LGBTQ people, the rewriting of history, the destruction of institutions, the destruction of research and science, the increasing wildfires, the exploding nation deficit,  the selling of your future and your children’s future to benefit the Epstein class, the astronomical graft that President Trump has taken (to the tune of billions) all at a cost to you… What do all of these thing have in common? All of these spring from illegal, fascist moves by Trump and his cult, aided and abetted by dishonorable and immoral Republican jurists, senators and representatives, including our own Michael  Baumgartner.

Whether we rescue our nation (and your future) is up to you and your vote. Republican cult members know that if they lose control, justice is coming - for all of them. They will do anything and everything to make sure that it is extremely hard for people to vote, and to make sure people’s votes are not counted. When we win, they will do everything in their power to stop Democrats from occupying the office they have legally won. Think January 6 on steroids.

These Republican politicians are crooked and have no honor. They will fight tooth and nail to keep justice from occurring. Whatever happens, this election will be one for the history books. And when your grandkids ask what you did, how you voted this November, you will either be proud to tell them what you did to save our nation or you will be ashamed to say you did nothing. Unless, you are a MAGA person. Because, in order to feel shame, you must embrace some sort of morality. If you have any morality, you would have removed yourself from this cult years ago. 

Today, on Out and About, I will be talking with Sami Perry from Spokane Indivisible about the next No Kings Rally and why voting is crucial this election. 

Tune into Out and About every Tuesday at 4 pm on KYRS at 88.1 and 92.3 fm. Also streaming at KYRS.org.

Thank you to my underwriter - Eastern Washington University. Thanks for listening! Maeve 

Haiku Friday - September 25, 2026

 

We’re barred from the door! 

All the news unfit to print

Remains in darkness.

Max Q

The first day of fall

It’s still warm summer weather

But on borrowed time

Bill

All is plainly clear 

In the annuls of assholes 

There are no equals

Rikosan

I’m Surviving Mars

Retreating to an off world 

Where logic still lives

Maeve 

Haiku Friday - September 18, 2026

 

Leafy, green, serene:

Long shadows on the asphalt, 

Fifteen m.p.h. 

Max Q

We are wild parrots:

Squawking, feeding, flapping - two

Camouflaged in green. 

Max Q

a shy moon, hiding,

in the shadow of the earth

peeking out at us

Bill

A new direction 

Living in summer’s last gasp

Falling back to earth 

Rikosan

I feel the warm glow

Is it tropical liquor

Or family love

Maeve 

Yesterday's Out and About - September Snow Day

 

Yesterday on Out and About, I talked with Trevor Finchamp about Snow In September. This is an event to celebrate fifty years of cross country ski trails on Mount Spokane. It has a lot of great activities and prizes and it’s free. Best of all it takes place at Brick West brewery. The fun begins at 5 pm and continues to 8 pm this Friday, September 18th.

Unfortunately, Trevor was feeling pretty stressed because he’s the organizer of the event, so he had to leave early. I was going to play some music, but somebody called in to the station, a guy named “Pizza.” He had some amazing things to say about cross country skiing and lichen. After he hung up, I started playing some music but was interrupted by another phone call. And this guy thought that we weren’t taking things seriously enough. Luckily, the show ended almost immediately thereafter.

If you missed this broadcast of Out and About, you can listen to the archived edition here.

As always, thank you to my underwriter - 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