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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · 11d

Last week I had the honor of interviewing artist Pepper Pepper, about his "Pink Moments: Collections" show at Seattle Central's M. Rosetta Hunter gallery. Read about the influence of the cut-up method and the queer magic of "Pink" @echothearts.bsky.social here: theevergreenecho.org/echo/pepperp...

Pepper Pepper on Pink’s Power: Queerness, Movement, and Magic — The Evergreen Echo

Walking into Pepper Pepper a.k.a. Kaj-Anne Pepper’s show Pink Moment: Collections at Seattle Central’s M. Rosetta Hunter Gallery feels transcendent. Predominantly a new media show with video, sound, a...

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · 22d

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · 22d

Didn't get to attend our Elliot Bay readings? You did attend and want to hang out with us more? The Evergreen Echo will be having another free public reading event this Sunday, September 21 from 4-6pm at Georgetown Liquor Company! (21+ event!) Come meet us, have some amazing food and great convos!

An event poster with a dark blue background, i erlayed by a lighter purple spiderweb, with a large black and white line drawing of a moth in the center. It reads: Public Reading: Anomalous Echoes; The Evergreen Echo, Powered by Shunpike; Georgetown Liquor Company; 5501 Airport Way S, Dte B, Seattle, WA; Sunday, September 21 4:00-6:00pm

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · 29d

Curious about where to see Burlesque in Seattle and wtf is going in with the Rendezvous? @themorgueanne.bsky.social spills the tea in my latest article @echothearts.bsky.social : theevergreenecho.org/echo/morguea...

Masterful Morgue Anne Spills Rendezvous Tea, Urges Support for Displaced Performers — The Evergreen Echo

Over the past decade, Morgue Anne has forged a creative home at The Rendezvous, a historic venue in the heart of Belltown, where, until a few weeks ago, you could see everything from live music, to co...

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Pep @pepverbsnouns.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Bluesky is boring."

Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually.

When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Sep 2

Harold & Maude is hands-down my favorite film of all time. I've literally watched it hundreds of times, and it has dragged me out of multiple emotional spirals. A recent rewatch has reiterated how much the current moment calls for a whole lot of Maude.

A film still from the film 'Harold & Maude'. A background of green grass, with two figures in the foreground: A brown-haired, pale skinned, smiling young man in a light blue turtleneck and gray jacket, turned slightly away from the camera, toward his companion, an older woman with might shin, wearing a camel-colored sweater, with brown hair in braids cruising the top of her head

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tonight at Elliot Bay! Come say hello

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Aug 26

I prefer the term "Clanker Wanker" for people who are dedicated to outsourcing their thinking.

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Aug 25

Same! 🙌

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you wanted to meet up and chat about local media, hear some awesome works of fiction and poetry read from our awesome Creatives? @echothearts.bsky.social will be at Elliot Bay Book Company this Friday, August 29th @ 7pm! We would love to see your faces for this FREE event!

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The Evergreen Echo @echothearts.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our writing wouldn't be possible without YOU!

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#EchoTheArts

We share interests

Pictures of crow and Saint Rat in Cal Anderson Park

Our Creatives are Empowered

Picture of Raegan Ballard-Gennrich from Sensual Arts Slay the Scene at Tacoma Cabaret

And we uplift other artists in our community

Pictures of an aerialist in a standing hoop and bathrooms in Cal Anderson Park painted with the trans flag

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 31

My op-ed RE: recent federal cuts to public media funding is now up @echothearts.bsky.social and includes quotes from @kuow.org @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social @c895radio.bsky.social and @ksvr.org theevergreenecho.org/echo/publicm...
#publicmedia #media #seattle #washingtonstate

Federal Cuts to Public Media May Bring Devastating Consequences — The Evergreen Echo

The true value in community media is in the way it forges local connection and identity, providing spaces for diverse voices—something that is often lost in conglomerate media, who tend to cite the sa...

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 30

@subpop.bsky.social @odeszaofficial.bsky.social @marylambertsings.bsky.social

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 29

Now up @echothearts.bsky.social on the VIBES page: The Signs as Seattle Musical Acts theevergreenecho.org/vibes

Screenshot image with text that reads "Signs as Seattle Musical Acts" with small photos of Orville Peck, Nirvana, Sir Mix-a-Lot, and Heart, with smaller illegible text below photos

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 26

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 26

I would say there are MULTIPLE billionaires pulling the strings—we saw a few of them at the inauguration, then watched DOGE rip apart our federal infrastructure, and steal our personal data+Musk got more $$ contracts. Ellison is just one billionaire that this charlatan, con-man govt bows to.

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 26

@echothearts.bsky.social

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 24

All Hail 🌟🙏 🐁 Saint Rat 🐁 🙏🌟 for #hotratsummer making their ICONIC Convos debut @echothearts.bsky.social
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Iconic Convos: Saint Rat — The Evergreen Echo

Nicole Bearden (NB): You’ll find our next guest nestled in an arched niche of the Cal Anderson Gatehouse. Saint Rat is the talk of the town this summer—Hot Rat Summer, that is. Welcome to Iconic Conv...

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 1

Honestly this is the best approach to all fascists and idjuts--laugh in their faces (not behind their backs. Well not ONLY behind their backs).

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 1

I think that's the bots, most of us actual gamers on the Steam page are fully upset that there is no way to screen for AI slop on Steam.

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jul 1

The things my brain chooses to develop instead of what I need it to:

Multiple blue bubble text messages that read:
1. Part of me wants to make a cigarette muppet 🤣
2. Its name would be Ciggy Cheroot
3. And it would be French
4. And every time it talked, smoke would come out of its mouth 🌬️

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jun 19

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · Jun 19

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jun 16

Games I've been playing to stay sane-ish for the past few months: #immortallife, #blueprince, #talesofseikyu, #promisemascotagency #games

Character from Immortal Life on top of the Renovation Division in the Guiyan Sect

Character from Tales of Seikyu on a sunny, grassy hillside, in front of a lighthouse and mountains in the distance

Promise Mascot Agency Item Obtained with Shinji the subcontractor card

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jun 14

My dear friend, I love your writing in general, and this piece os incredibly simple in the way it presents this abstract idea. I appreciate how it allows people to connect to that through emotion. As always, you nailed it. 💖

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Nico B @nicobookwitch.bsky.social · Jun 14

Just read my dear friend @sharonarnold.bsky.social 's piece 'Queering Time' publicdisplay.art/article/Quee... and I highly recommend. They are such a beautiful writer. ❣️#sharonarnold

An open edition of the magazine Public Display.Art, showing the article Queering Time by Sharon Arnold on the left page, with ads on the right page, on top of a blue and white floral tablecloth,

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