Richard Summerbell
@acremonium.bsky.social
Medical and environmental mycologist, mushroom identifier, bird watcher, philosopher of opportunity and choice, LGBT essayist, novelist and songwriter.
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#StillDoinCDs The Meters are THE classic bayou funk band from New Orleans, whose 8 albums (1969-77) never broke the top 100 in pop, but who were beloved by critics & connoisseurs, & whose music has been consistently reused & sampled ever since. “The Hits,” 1997, brings it all home.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
#StillDoinCDs The Meters are THE classic bayou funk band from New Orleans, whose 8 albums (1969-77) never broke the top 100 in pop, but who were beloved by critics & connoisseurs, & whose music has been consistently reused & sampled ever since. “The Hits,” 1997, brings it all home.
From the summer, but I have another bottle ready in the fridge. Slava Ukraini i LGBTQi!
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
From the summer, but I have another bottle ready in the fridge. Slava Ukraini i LGBTQi!
#StillDoinCDs Toronto-based Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair gained nominations for best Canadian Indigenous folk songwriter in the 00s, but by this 2018 EP “The Ability to Judge Distance” had turned toward punk-influenced atmospheric alt-rock, reaching a fine, lofty stratosphere. On bandcamp
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
#StillDoinCDs Toronto-based Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair gained nominations for best Canadian Indigenous folk songwriter in the 00s, but by this 2018 EP “The Ability to Judge Distance” had turned toward punk-influenced atmospheric alt-rock, reaching a fine, lofty stratosphere. On bandcamp
#StillDoinCDs AFI, acronym for A Fire Inside, from Ukiah, California, is a “post-hardcore” band, at least at the time of this breakthrough 2003 album, “Sing the Sorrow.” An esthetic range from melodic hard rock with pretty bits to scream vocals yielded #5 (US; 10 CDA) & platinum.
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
#StillDoinCDs AFI, acronym for A Fire Inside, from Ukiah, California, is a “post-hardcore” band, at least at the time of this breakthrough 2003 album, “Sing the Sorrow.” An esthetic range from melodic hard rock with pretty bits to scream vocals yielded #5 (US; 10 CDA) & platinum.
Take one Labrador, add one soft rubber ball being played with by another owner and his French bulldogs; Labrador seizes and squeaks the ball, then swallows it. Result: endoscopy bill to remove after simpler remedies fail.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Take one Labrador, add one soft rubber ball being played with by another owner and his French bulldogs; Labrador seizes and squeaks the ball, then swallows it. Result: endoscopy bill to remove after simpler remedies fail.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
Problems of the dogeoisie.
The Trumpo-Putinist propagandists made a big push about how evil liberals and the World Economic Forum were going to make people in the western democracies eat farmed insects -- but now Trump is going to make 42 million Americans go out and find their own insects to eat, and in the winter.
November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Trumpo-Putinist propagandists made a big push about how evil liberals and the World Economic Forum were going to make people in the western democracies eat farmed insects -- but now Trump is going to make 42 million Americans go out and find their own insects to eat, and in the winter.
#StillDoinCDs Color Theory, theoretical band of California synth-pop remaker Brian Hazard, now has a delicious 14th album out, mostly online, but I scored 1 of 150 CD copies. “This Bright Circumstance” is a rhythmic, melodic synth exploration of “navigating troubled thoughts” to maintain balance.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#StillDoinCDs Color Theory, theoretical band of California synth-pop remaker Brian Hazard, now has a delicious 14th album out, mostly online, but I scored 1 of 150 CD copies. “This Bright Circumstance” is a rhythmic, melodic synth exploration of “navigating troubled thoughts” to maintain balance.
Along the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam Centrum.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Along the Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam Centrum.
#StillDoinCDs “New Morning” (1970) was Bob Dylan’s 11th album, featuring the often-covered standard “If Not for You,” & an extensive array of Americana including the old-style country of “Winterlude” & the eccentric jazz of “If Dogs Run Free,” ft. scat-singing by Maeretha Stewart.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#StillDoinCDs “New Morning” (1970) was Bob Dylan’s 11th album, featuring the often-covered standard “If Not for You,” & an extensive array of Americana including the old-style country of “Winterlude” & the eccentric jazz of “If Dogs Run Free,” ft. scat-singing by Maeretha Stewart.
#StillDoinCDs Elaborate automaton organs are a classic feature of Dutch festival & summer market life. This 2008 “Sound of Music”
CD from G. Perlee’s originally 1925 organ “De Arabier” includes popular Dutch singalong faves, a royally loyal “King Football March” & a “Barber of Seville” synopsis.
CD from G. Perlee’s originally 1925 organ “De Arabier” includes popular Dutch singalong faves, a royally loyal “King Football March” & a “Barber of Seville” synopsis.
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
#StillDoinCDs Elaborate automaton organs are a classic feature of Dutch festival & summer market life. This 2008 “Sound of Music”
CD from G. Perlee’s originally 1925 organ “De Arabier” includes popular Dutch singalong faves, a royally loyal “King Football March” & a “Barber of Seville” synopsis.
CD from G. Perlee’s originally 1925 organ “De Arabier” includes popular Dutch singalong faves, a royally loyal “King Football March” & a “Barber of Seville” synopsis.
One thing this western Canadian boy never imagined himself doing was planting up a geveltuin (wot? A little strip of garden in front of the façade) in front of an Amsterdam canal house, with the stonework & soil installed for all requesters by the City for its 750th anniversary.
November 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
One thing this western Canadian boy never imagined himself doing was planting up a geveltuin (wot? A little strip of garden in front of the façade) in front of an Amsterdam canal house, with the stonework & soil installed for all requesters by the City for its 750th anniversary.
Incongruously, there’s one fantasy Hallowe’en village in the midst of Tuincentrum Osdorp’s Xmas villages. Features a ghoulish amusement park with miniature people riding on bats in a flying carousel.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Incongruously, there’s one fantasy Hallowe’en village in the midst of Tuincentrum Osdorp’s Xmas villages. Features a ghoulish amusement park with miniature people riding on bats in a flying carousel.
The Tuincentrum features a room full of mechanically animated Christmas villages.
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Tuincentrum features a room full of mechanically animated Christmas villages.
Reindeer carol you through the toy train section of Tuincentrum Osdorp.
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reindeer carol you through the toy train section of Tuincentrum Osdorp.
The array of Christmasabilia at the vast Tuincentrum (Garden Centre) Osdorp in W. Amsterdam is one of the unsung wonders of Europe (I was there to get a garden plant). Room after room in an IKEA like labyrinth.
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The array of Christmasabilia at the vast Tuincentrum (Garden Centre) Osdorp in W. Amsterdam is one of the unsung wonders of Europe (I was there to get a garden plant). Room after room in an IKEA like labyrinth.
Trumpy Victorian militarism explained. "Why do so many Americans seem to have 'gone cuckoo' lately?" medium.com/@summerbelr/...
Natalism is a duty infliction in militarism, not a charity.
Natalism is a duty infliction in militarism, not a charity.
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trumpy Victorian militarism explained. "Why do so many Americans seem to have 'gone cuckoo' lately?" medium.com/@summerbelr/...
Natalism is a duty infliction in militarism, not a charity.
Natalism is a duty infliction in militarism, not a charity.
An alert, winterized tufted duck in the Noorderplantsoen in Groningen, the Netherlands, triggers my North American scaup epistemes. He was accompanied by 5 more.
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
An alert, winterized tufted duck in the Noorderplantsoen in Groningen, the Netherlands, triggers my North American scaup epistemes. He was accompanied by 5 more.
Haha, a verse that I don't think I've posted on this particular network, so here it is in case anyone missed it in Jack Dorsey's old milieu.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Haha, a verse that I don't think I've posted on this particular network, so here it is in case anyone missed it in Jack Dorsey's old milieu.
Gay bar ambience in Amsterdam: an unknown female tried to get friendly with my partner in the Queen’s Head Café (= Pub)
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Gay bar ambience in Amsterdam: an unknown female tried to get friendly with my partner in the Queen’s Head Café (= Pub)
States could heed this idea, which could deal with more than one type of disaster.
October 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
States could heed this idea, which could deal with more than one type of disaster.
Fijne dag nog! (een reiger zet zijn door de wind verwaaide, wanordelijke veren weer op hun plaats)
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Fijne dag nog! (een reiger zet zijn door de wind verwaaide, wanordelijke veren weer op hun plaats)
I give him permission to sing my satiric song if he wishes.
October 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I give him permission to sing my satiric song if he wishes.
The houseboat across the canal from me is sometimes a heronry, so that’s a good start!
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The houseboat across the canal from me is sometimes a heronry, so that’s a good start!
My contribution to the X zeitgeist today.
Laws don't block Trump, this I know,
Supreme Court judges tell me so,
Americans to him belong,
They are weak - so weak - but He is Strong.
Laws don't block Trump, this I know,
Supreme Court judges tell me so,
Americans to him belong,
They are weak - so weak - but He is Strong.
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My contribution to the X zeitgeist today.
Laws don't block Trump, this I know,
Supreme Court judges tell me so,
Americans to him belong,
They are weak - so weak - but He is Strong.
Laws don't block Trump, this I know,
Supreme Court judges tell me so,
Americans to him belong,
They are weak - so weak - but He is Strong.
Met up with a smooth-spored Inocybe at the Cain mushroom foray that had these photogenic metuloid cheilocystidia on the gill edges. Something in the ballpark of I. nitidiuscula.
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Met up with a smooth-spored Inocybe at the Cain mushroom foray that had these photogenic metuloid cheilocystidia on the gill edges. Something in the ballpark of I. nitidiuscula.