Richard Summerbell
Medical and environmental mycologist, mushroom identifier, bird watcher, philosopher of opportunity and choice, LGBT essayist, novelist and songwriter.
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- MAGA culture. Make America Grotty Again.
- #StillDoinCDs Alice Walker’s classic lesbian-content novel The Color Purple was adapted for stage, starting a successful Broadway run in 2005. This orig. cast soundtrack, 2006, featured actress LaChanze singing main character Celie’s parts in a gumbo of soul, gospel & blues from Russell/Willis/Bray.
- Colin Allred giving context to a journey from Texas to Congress.
- A reflection on Black History Month open.substack.com/pub/colinall...
- #StillDoinCDs Sum 41 from Ajax, Ontario, was a top Canadian entry in the 2000s pop-punk surge. “Underclass Hero” (2007) was their top charting album (CAN 1, USA 7, JPN 2) & went 2X gold. “I won’t be caught living in a dead end job/while praying to my government, guns & god.” Topical, eh?
- #StillDoinCDs The irresistibly melodious “All is Dream” (2001) is the commercial apogee of Mercury Rev, rising to # 4 in Norway & #11 in UK, going gold & yielding 3 indie hit songs in the latter land. It was more of a cult classic in the US & Canada for those liking a psychedelic rock vibe.
- #StillDoinCDs Mercury Rev is a rather experimental indie alt rock band from Buffalo, NY. “The Secret Migration” (2005) is their 6th album, with an “ornate” sound anticipating Owl City on the sweet side & Destroyer on the dry side. Single “In a Funny Way” was top 20 in the UK.
- #StillDoinCDs In 2016, Alain Coté & Florent Vollant, directors of a French- & an Innu-language music festival, got 8 young musicians, 4 from each group, to form a supergroup for this terrif Nikamu Mamuitun (Songs bringing us together) album, released 2019. Includes later breakout Scott-Pien Picard.
- Secret police!
- I was curious where ICE and CBP agents in Minnesota were deploying from, so I looked at OPM data. What I found is that their duty stations are almost universally redacted from the public data. www.pbump.net/o/where-are-...
- #StillDoinCDs Afrika Bambataa, nom de musique of The Bronx’s Lance Taylor, was a pioneering exponent of hip hop &, inspired by Kraftwerk, the developer of electro-funk underpinning most of today’s EDM. “Just Get Up & Dance” is a 1990 CD single, a #4 hit. Now male/young-male abuse-accusation retired.
- I just found out the last bit by looking at his Wikipedia while writing the post. There are a lot of these moments in music history today.
- My 3d trip to Puerto Vallarta, only 6 days before going elsewhere, still yielded 10 “lifers:” blue bunting, orange-breasted bunting, W. Mex. euphonia, Cassin’s vireo, violet-crowned humm., rufous-bellied chachalaca, boat-billed heron (l), white-faced ibis, black-bellied whistling duck (r), Lucy’s w.
- Trump gearing up to ethnic cleanse the Springfield Haïtians he lied about to get elected.
