Clay Wallace

@claywallace.bsky.social

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Early bird! Morning host for @wuky.org in Lexington, KY. Podcast guy for the Capital City Museum in Frankfort, KY. Plays mountain dulcimer and mandolin with @newsroom.band. claywallace.94 on Signal

Four people sit around a table in a pink room. There are little tiered golden birdcages full of pastries and finger sandwiches, and each person has a pot of tea in front of them.
Poster taped to the window of an Arby's drive thru. At the top right is a hand-drawn picture of a rat surrounded by flies, leaning on a wrench. Text reads: "STREET RAT'S CRUISE IN AUGUST 27 ARBY'S 6pm - 8 pm"
Three kids approach a table of dulcimers as Clay demonstrates how to play.
A paper with a few sharp creases from being folded and one coffee stain at the side. It's old sheet music, using simple number notation for the song "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"
Glass case with three shelves packed full of dolls. Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, American Girl dolls, clown dolls, baby dolls, etc.
A picture taken out the front window of a car of the car in front of it. A Toyota SUV has a handmade trailer behind it filled with doors laid flat. On a slab of wood where a liftgate would be, the following is written: "STAY BACK 4/3πr cubed feet, where r equals speed in ft/sec"
Sunrise view facing west from Pine Mountain. The sky has some light clouds, but most of the sky is visible as a gradient from dark gray-blue at the top to a peachy-orange at the horizon. Tree-covered hills rise up, island-like, from a dense fog.
Hand holding a large bottle of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap. The characteristic block-of-text label is a rainbow gradient rather than monochrome and proclaims "PRIDE! JOY! SOLIDARITY" at the top. The bottle is angled in a sunbeam to show rainbow prisms spreading over the label. It's cherry blossom scented.
zoomed in picture of the backside of a Tesla with a bumper sticker beside the emblem that reads "Self-Driving Test Vehicle" with a warning triangle
portrait-orientation photograph from the middle of a crowd gathered around an outdoor stage. the stage is lit with orange and blue "barcode" stripes as The Lumineers plays.
Partial screenshot showing that an audiobook I've been waiting for is ready for me to check out: "The Wait Is Over. Ready to borrow! Platform Decay MARTHA WELLS PLATFORM DECAY THE MURDERBOT DIARIES NARRATED BY KEVIN R. FREE Placed 4 May Your hold is ready after 4 weeks, because the library acquired 72 more copies."
Clay stands still as his dad pins on his boutonnière.
The groom, his groomsmen, and my little brother working on getting their ties tied. Michael, the groom, points at Alberto, a groomsman, trying to instruct.
Baby picture. Clay, age 3, and Madison and Rachel, age 1, All three inspect a package wrapped in Sesame Street paper. Clay lifts up the paper for Madison to reach under while Rachel observes. Clay and Madison wear matching green onesies, while Rachel wears the same pattern in pink.
Wedding photo taken at the entrance of a church. A bride (Madison) and groom (Michael) stand on steps below a cross mosaic. The bride wears a long, white dress with a train that trails down on the steps beside her; the groom wears a sharp, black suit and a pistachio-green tie. They both smile.
The Mountain Goats concert in Manchester Music Hall in Lexington, Kentucky. Crowd swathed in blue light watches the stage, where four performers stand and play music.
A mulched garden bed is separated from a grassy lawn by a line of cinder blocks. Every hole is filled with marigolds. A yellow "dog vomit" slime mold rings the hole, spreading out along the concrete. It lays in a flat layer which sprawls out over the edges and around an adjacent hole.
a schacht ladybug spinning wheel strapped into the passenger seat of a car. the seat belt is pulled through one of the hand holds.
a bean seedling with two partially chewed leaves pops out from mulch beside sprouts chewed down to the stalk.
Same line of fence as in last picture except NO LEAVES TO BE FOUND. Mulch with barely any green poking through.
Old (1990s old) picture of my mom, my sisters, and me. I'm in the front, preschool age, looking away from the camera and biting my lower lip. My mom sits behind me, holding my little sisters (twins, toddlers) in either arm. Rachel, on the left, looks totally out of it, gazing at the camera with parted lips. Madison, on the right, screams happily with her arms up.
Photo taken very close to the ground. A row of tiny bean plants about 2-3" tall poke out from mulch beside a chain link fence.
Frankfort Capitol building on a stormy night. Street lamps in front of the building are on, but the dome is unlit. Lightning flashes in the sky behind it.
Power outage map showing several red powerless zones overlapping across Franklin County. Worst of it seems to be on the west side of town and along US 60 W and US 127 S.
Short video taken from inside an office out a window on a stormy night. It's dark, but at one point the sky lights up in blue, teal, and purple.
handle of lawn mower. it's electric, with a light green power button shaped like a stout coffin (hexagon with two elongated sides).
Apple Maps screenshot. Two "Monterey" labels at the top left and bottom right of the map. The Monterey on the left is the known one in Owen County. The Monterey on the right is my mystery Monterey. I've circled both and drawn a line between them.
Map zoomed in on the northeast quarter of Fayette County (shown in blue) with the surrounding area light gray. Halfway between the Fayette County line and Paris is the map label "Monterey."
a picture taken from the passenger-side window of a car. there is a guardrail in the foreground, and an intersection underneath the bridge the car is going over. the roads all cut through valleys between large hills. In the background, a double rainbow is visible, the inner bow particularly vibrant and defined.
Picture taken from a highway median. Two two-lane roads stretch onward under a bright but cloudy sky. The roads are wet from recent rain, and a rainbow hangs overhead.
10-second video taken in Kroger parking lot. A horse-shaped balloon floats low across the sky, slowly gaining altitude.
Four people - an adult and three kids - smile and pose for the camera. The photo is 15 or more years old - a picture of a printed photo, with some graininess. The woman seated in the center of the frame smiles, her arms around two of the kids on either side of her. The kid behind her (me) smiles and seems to be flexing an arm muscle for show. They're all decked out in University of Kentucky football gear.
Black background, green text: ".On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging."
Front entrance to The Church of the Ascension in Frankfort, Kentucky. Two red doors are decorated with sprigs of greenery and white ribbon. The right-hand door is open. The church is brick, with two steps leading up to the door. To the left of the door is a sign identifying the church and naming the rector and service times.
crop of new earth picture. zoomed in on the edge of the earth over south america to show the atmosphere. the bottom half of the arc is brightly lit by the sun behind the planet. the top half is still visible, but more ephemeral, not bright. there's a clear dividing line where the bright layer seems to sink below the hazy layer with harsh, angled separation.
one of the musicians stood up and left an empty seat. in the space behind where they were, there are three malort posters propped on a piano: 1) "WHEN YOU NEED TO UNFRIEND SOMEONE IN PERSON" 2) "MALORT, THESE PANTS WON'T SHIT THEMSELVES" 3) "TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT YOU FIGHT YOUR DAD"
a large group of people playing string instruments in a tight space (irish pub). an old man fiddles, teaching the tune to people leaning in to listen.
storefront of an irish pub with warm light showing through the windows. a standing chalkboard outside branded guinness says "WE'RE OPEN AND WE HAVE MALORT." they also have a flag with the malort logo in the window.
screenshot of a browser window. kagi search engine styled like a search engine from 30 years ago. the dog mascot and logo are visibly pixilated. a date at the right side of the screen reads "April 1, 1996" the search box is ringed with a yellow bar and radio buttons indicating the search results you'd like to pull (Web Pages, Images, Videos, News, Podcasts, Maps). below the search box are columns of links reminiscent of 90s AOL, Yahoo! on the lower right, vintage-looking ads and download buttons.
Clay talking into the microphone on air. He's ringed with four monitor screens, two monitor speakers, and stands behind the board. His face is partially obscured by a microphone arm.
screenshot of a text message. text: "You have a new baby brother" attached photo shows my sister hugging a small dog with long legs and curly black hair (poodle / shih tsu)
2-page zine spread, light purple pages with purple ink. Left-side page shows two pictures of Sweet Evening Breeze, a glamorous figure in a drapey wedding dress and veil. A narration text blurb reads: "Around this same time, she appeared in Lexington's newspapers, photographed in a bridal gown and promoting her "womanless weddings," entertainments she hosted in local black churches as fundraisers. In one image, she holds a bouquet in a garden. In the other image, which seems to be part of a paper event reminder, she stands in front of a curtain. The text on the reminder says "CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT - An unique rainbow wedding and style review will be presented at the Asbury Methodist church High and Mill streets. Tuesday at 8:15 p. m. for the benefit of the church. James Herndon (above) will play the part of the bride." On the right-hand page, the narration continues: "The "grooms" in these weddings were often players from the all-white University of Kentucky football team (like the one pictured above in Sweets' home). The image shows Sweets and a young man sitting on an ornately decorated living room. Sweets is black and wearing a floor-length light-colored dress with short ruffled sleeves. The young man is white and wears a light-colored t-shirt and pants.
large blue horse statue behind a ribbon set up for a commemorative cutting. it's a sunny day in a park.
performers, some wearing shark suits, run around in circles carrying tattered white flags. a performer in the center holds a lightning bolt.
Performer in blue perches in a lyra hoop as another performer in black uses a bubble gun to fill the room with bubbles.
View of front of American Turners Louisville - a two-story concrete building and an adjoining, larger unit on stilts with the sign "TURNERS CIRCUS" by the steps leading to the concrete building. Cars are parked under the building on stilts, behind which the river can be seen.
a performer dressed in a blue suit poses upside-down on a lyra hoop; the performer has both hands extended down and to the side, and feet upwards - the front of their knees and the small of their back are the only points of contact with the suspended hoop.
screenshot of Procreate drawing app for iPad showing layers of the sunshine picture. each of the sun's rays has its own layer.
digital drawing of a smiling sunshine peeking out from behind rolling green hills. directly traced from Kentucky's "it's that friendly" license plate (2002-2005).
cropped screenshot from goky.ky.gov. It's a traffic map zoomed in along Versailles Rd/US60 in Lexington. There's a blocked road indicated at Old Clubhouse Lane and slow outbound traffic backs up onto both Man O War and two thirds of the way back to New Circle.
Screenshot of goky.ky.gov traffic map showing reported crashes stretching from Shelbyville/Harrodsburg/Irvine/Flemingsburg. Dead center in the map is Fayette County, where every crash on the map seems to be. Image is not zoomed in close enough to see distinct crash locations, but they're mostly along US 60/Versailles Rd between Bluegrass Parkway and New Circle, along the south arc of New Circle, and a standstill on I75.
screenshot of weather app. several severe weather alerts are shown mapped out on screen. red box indicating tornado warning over shelby county and a small portion of western franklin county
interior of a family living space. Abigail Fluffbottom (a poodle mix of some sort) sits on a recliner in the background. Curly (about half Abby's size) lays on an ottman.
elevator set into a brick wall. printed sign on the elevator door says "THIS IS THE ELEVATOR" in all caps, underlined, with a small image of the elevator from the shining.
picture of a cream-colored door with gender-neutral bathroom signage and a second printed sign beneath it reading "public bathroom"
screenshot of stock weather app. rainy for two weeks.
Photo of television screen tuned to LEX 18. They're showing the weekly weather outlook. All normal, sort of chilly, with the exception of Saturday, which shows a slab of meat and the text "150th OWINGSVILLE MEAT SHOWER"
Photo of a Bible passage underlined and bracketed in pencil. "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" [Isaiah 58:6]
zoomed in on security camera tv from last photo. image of the mark pope standee from behind, plus me with my phone out taking a picture of it.
mark pope cardboard standee at the front of a speedway. taped to his chest is a sheet of paper (zoomed in next image)