❤️🤍💚 Hooray for Hungary 🇭🇺

I’ll be in SF tomorrow. SISTERS' EASTER IN THE PARK 2026: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR Where: Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco When: Sunday, April 5, 2026 Main Stage Celebration: Noon - 4:00 PM Hunky Jesus: 3:00 PM Donations encouraged & appreciated: www.thesisters.org/donate-easter Photo by Gooch

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Calling all flowers ‘posies’, Michael Thomas loved his tulips 🌷 which are blooming right now in Pioneer 💐

We Rise

Sutter Creek Amador County, CA No Kings Rally 650 people. Biggest rally ever in the county’s history. Best sign of the day award 🏆 goes to this:

This sticker depicts the “Rebel Loon,” a viral symbol of resistance in Minneapolis and Minnesota, combining the state bird with the Star Wars Rebel Alliance emblem to protest federal ICE immigration crackdowns. Created by Bernardo Anderson in early 2026, it represents solidarity and hope.

Make Astronomical Gas-prices Again

🎼 Spring is here! Why doesn't my heart go dancing? 🎼 Spring is here! Why isn't the waltz entrancing? 🎼 No desire, no ambition leads me 🎼 Maybe it's because nobody needs me 🎼 Spring is here! Why doesn't the breeze delight me? Maxine Sullivan “Spring Is Here” June 29, 1938 youtu.be/IyrncMqLWBA

🌱 vivacious verdant vernal equinox 💚

I’m going to see THE CHURCH in SF. Tickets still available. 🎼 Under the Milky Way Tonight

“I hope if you take away anything from my journey it’s that you all have the courage to dare greatly. Life is too short not to take chances on yourself. Because the only failure in life is not trying.” — Lindsey Vonn. 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

The only thing more powerful than hate is love

🎼 One gray night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more 🎼 And Puff, that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar 🎼 His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain 🎼 Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave 🎼 So Puff, that mighty dragon, sadly slipped into his cave

Black History Month A Diva a Day Barbara Lewis (b. 1943) This one is special for me. My mom loved Barbara Lewis’s music. I adore her vocal style which made her one of my first music divas. And she wrote most of her own chart topping songs! Often imitated, never duplicated. 🎼 Baby, I’m Yours 💕

Black History Month Gladys Bentley A Diva a Day A Master of Drag Gladys Bentley (1907-1960) was a gender-bending piano playing lesbian blues singer who came into her own during the Harlem Renaissance. Donning a top hat & tuxedo, Bentley would sing the blues while flirting with women in the audience.

Black History Month Mama Thornton A Diva a Day ❤️🖤💚 Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton (1926-1984) was an American singer/songwriter who played a mean harmonica & the drums. She sang the blues, rock ‘n’ roll and soul. Thornton dressed in men’s clothing and didn’t care what people thought.

🎼 Oh, our Minneapolis, 🎼 I hear your voice 🎼 Crying through the bloody mist 🎼 In the winter of '26 🎼 We'll remember the names of those who died 🎼 On the streets of Minneapolis youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

Never Forget

Sade: Nothing Can Come Between Us Wham: I’m Your Man Dimitri From Paris: Free Ton Style Blow Monkeys: Diggin Your Scene Bravery: This is Not the End Sade: No Ordinary Love Louis/Ella: Cheek to Cheek Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart B Ferry: Don’t Stop the Dance Eagles: I Can’t Tell You Why

Derik, Hayden & Kent created this memorial message for Michael Thomas to the Castro community at Hibernia Beach (18th & Castro SEast corner) in SF. I visited this in person yesterday & it touched my heart deeply. It is a longstanding tradition to honor our lost loved ones in this sacred gay space 🙏

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Cavalier carefree Crocus constrain creeping cynicism curatively capturing cozy cooperation.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Cheerily cordial Cherries ceaselessly charm companions cooly complementing cocktails.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Cordially cultured Chrysanthemums cull crass contempt conjuring captivating creativity.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Scrumptiously saporous Strawberries stifle stressful stubbornness soaring spirits skyward.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Congenially comestible Catmint cushions catastrophic calamities cultivating continuous contentment.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Sonorously snazzy Spikerush safely soaks sunshine singing special sprouting songs.

🎼 Drink in your summer, gather your corn 🎼 The dreams of the night time will vanish by dawn 🎼 And time waits for no one youtu.be/YsH2In5r2sM?...

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Cunningly capable Clarkia chases cloudy chaos causing campy conviviality.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Supremely supple Succulents snuff sudden staggerment summoning sublime serenity.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Propitiously protective Purslane petals preclude petty palavers playfully preparing palatable potency.

🎼 If I could save time in a bottle the first thing that I'd like to do is to save every day ‘til eternity passes away just to spend them with you 🎼 If I could make days last forever, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save every day like a treasure and then again, I would spend them with you

The kiss seen ‘round the world. Photo by Terry Carroll San Francisco City Hall February 13, 2004 Michael Thomas & Aric Olnes

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Marvelously monumental Mullein masterfully mutates mania magically morphing mentality.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Captivatingly curvaceous Campanula check calamitous change conserving cherished connections.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Sublimely proud Sugar Pine subtly produces spiffy patterns stunning passersby.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Rustically resilient Rosemary relishes reliable romance repudiating raucous ranting.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Pomegranate’s piquant pink pearls permit passionate permissiveness prompting Persephone’s partaking penchant.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Melodramatically monochromatic Monstera moderates momentary misery motivating merrier meditative memories.

Marriage Equality - Florida by Aric Olnes. "Equal dignity and respect." On January 5th, 2014, the first couples were married in Florida. I've included my own drawing on this poster of the Orange Blossom (Citrus sinensis) which is Florida's state flower.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Majestically confident Maltese Cross’s mesmerizing crimson melts cares maximizing contentedness.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Bonny bifurcated Beans beat baffling brevity boosting bombastic boastful brazen babbling.

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Sporty spry Spruce spectacularly skedaddles snide superficiality starting salutary sublimity.

Frosty Fog Sunrise Half Dome Yosemite

James Brown’s New Year’s Resolution List

Aric’s Alliterative Allusions: Phenomenally puissant Ponderosa Pine pauses perfidiously puzzling paradoxes propagating perceptive poetic purposes.

Marriage Equality - Luxembourg by Aric Olnes.  The first same-sex weddings in Luxembourg took place on Jan 1, 2015 and on May 15th Prime Minister Xavier Bettel married his partner Gauthier Destenay. Congratulations, good luck & happy anniversary to the wonderful couples.