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Sweetheart of The Rodeo
#thebyrds #sweetheartoftherodeo #sixtiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #gramparsons August 30th, 1968 -- The Byrds release the blueprint for country rock -- Sweetheart of The Rodeo. Primarily into folk and a little psychedelia before this one, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman went looking for someone after David Crosby and Mike Clark departed. They found a 21 year-old musician by the name of…
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Sweetheart of The Rodeo
#thebyrds #sweetheartoftherodeo #sixtiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #gramparsons August 30th, 1968 -- The Byrds release the blueprint for country rock -- Sweetheart of The Rodeo. Primarily into folk and a little psychedelia before this one, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman went looking for someone after David Crosby and Mike Clark departed. They found a 21 year-old musician by the name of…
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Sweetheart of The Rodeo
#thebyrds #sweetheartoftherodeo #sixtiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #gramparsons August 30th, 1968 -- The Byrds release the blueprint for country rock -- Sweetheart of The Rodeo. Primarily into folk and a little psychedelia before this one, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman went looking for someone after David Crosby and Mike Clark departed. They found a 21 year-old musician by the name of…
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Sweetheart of The Rodeo
#thebyrds #sweetheartoftherodeo #sixtiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #gramparsons August 30th, 1968 -- The Byrds release the blueprint for country rock -- Sweetheart of The Rodeo. Primarily into folk and a little psychedelia before this one, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman went looking for someone after David Crosby and Mike Clark departed. They found a 21 year-old musician by the name of…
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Sweetheart of The Rodeo
#thebyrds #sweetheartoftherodeo #sixtiesrock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #countryrock #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #gramparsons August 30th, 1968 -- The Byrds release the blueprint for country rock -- Sweetheart of The Rodeo. Primarily into folk and a little psychedelia before this one, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman went looking for someone after David Crosby and Mike Clark departed. They found a 21 year-old musician by the name of…
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Ted Tocks Covers
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Originally posted on July 14, 2021
On this day in 1968 The Byrds released the seminal album ’Sweetheart of the Rodeo’.
“Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots
Tail gates and substitutes
Strap yourself to a tree with roots,
You ain't going nowhere”#ClarenceWhite #TheByrds #BobDylan #GeneParsons #RogerMcGuinn #MartyStuart #JoanBaez #AlbertLee #JohnBeland #BernieLeadon #RonWood #JimmyPage #JamesHetfield and more.
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Ted Tocks Covers
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Originally posted on July 14, 2021
On this day in 1968 The Byrds released the seminal album ’Sweetheart of the Rodeo’.
“Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots
Tail gates and substitutes
Strap yourself to a tree with roots,
You ain't going nowhere”#ClarenceWhite #TheByrds #BobDylan #GeneParsons #RogerMcGuinn #MartyStuart #JoanBaez #AlbertLee #JohnBeland #BernieLeadon #RonWood #JimmyPage #JamesHetfield and more.
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Ted Tocks Covers
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Originally posted on July 14, 2021
On this day in 1968 The Byrds released the seminal album ’Sweetheart of the Rodeo’.
“Buy me a flute, and a gun that shoots
Tail gates and substitutes
Strap yourself to a tree with roots,
You ain't going nowhere”#ClarenceWhite #TheByrds #BobDylan #GeneParsons #RogerMcGuinn #MartyStuart #JoanBaez #AlbertLee #JohnBeland #BernieLeadon #RonWood #JimmyPage #JamesHetfield and more.
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“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
…
… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
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… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
###
As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
The crowd at the gate (source) #Beatles #culture #fungi #fungus #GiulianaFurci #history #IndianMusic #LSD #mushrooms #PeterFonda #RaviShankar #revolver #RogerMcGuinn #SheSaidSheSaid #Telluride #TellurideMushroomFestival #TheByrds -
“Nature alone is antique; and the oldest art, a mushroom”*…
Every August, Telluride hosts the Telluride Mushroom Festival—an event that brings fungal science, conservation, foraging, cultivation, psychedelic research, art, and community together in the Colorado mountains. Tamara MC reports…
… Nestled in the Colorado mountains, Telluride has long been a town of festivals: Bluegrass, Film, Mountainfilm, and Jazz. But for more than four decades, the Telluride Mushroom Festival has carved out its own niche as the largest gathering of its kind in North America.
The festival began as the Aspen Mushroom Conference before moving to Telluride in 1981. Its early circle included Dr. Emanuel “Manny” Salzman, a Denver radiologist and one of its founders, and his wife, Joanne Salzman, along with Gary Lincoff, author of The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms; Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer; Paul Stamets, the mycologist and entrepreneur who founded Fungi Perfecti; and Goodtimes himself. Furci credits Goodtimes with helping bring the gathering from Aspen to Telluride. Today, the festival operates as a program of the Telluride Institute.
What began as a relatively intimate gathering focused on psychedelics and fungal science has grown considerably. More than 700 people attended in 2019; by 2025, [Guiliana] Furci [here] says, attendance had reached about 1,500. The growth accelerated in the pandemic years, when mushroom foraging and other outdoor pursuits drew new interest, part of what Furci calls “the mushroom hype.” Roughly 70 percent of recent attendees, she says, were experiencing the festival for the first time. Yet despite the influx of newcomers, the gathering retains what Furci describes as a “tribe or family feeling,” with regulars returning year after year and considering one another family…
…
… Without fungi, everyday life would look radically different: no beer, wine, chocolate, coffee, or bread. No penicillin. Fungi decompose organic matter and return nutrients to ecosystems, while fungal partnerships with plants helped make life on land possible and remain essential to much of terrestrial plant life.
“They are a life form that is different than plants and animals,” Furci explains. “They are neither plant nor animal nor bacteria. They can live on land, in the air, in water, both oceans and fresh waters.”
The fungal kingdom is astonishingly diverse, encompassing yeasts, molds, and mushroom-forming fungi, including everything from morels and chanterelles to conks and puffballs. Fungi also form the structural basis of lichens. When Furci mentions that morels and chanterelles are both fungi, she quickly puts the distance between them in perspective: “They are as closely related as a whale and a flea.”
Both whales and fleas belong to the animal kingdom, she notes, yet occupy profoundly different branches of it. The same is true within the fungal kingdom. “There are more ways to be a fungus than there are ways to be an animal,” Furci says.
Some of those differences challenge familiar ideas about reproduction. Schizophyllum commune, a widespread wood-decaying fungus, has more than 23,000 mating types—a genetic system far removed from a simple male-female binary.
Are fungi gendered? “No,” Furci says flatly. But she cannot bring herself to call them “it,” either. “They’re definitely not things, so I can’t talk about them as things. And they definitely don’t have a he vibe.”
For Furci, the problem is partly one of language. Calling a living organism “it” can reduce it to an object, while “he” or “she” imposes a gender fungi do not have. That attention to words extends well beyond pronouns.
Furci is one of the driving forces behind the “3F proposal”: Fauna, Flora, and Funga. For generations, “flora and fauna” has served as shorthand for the living world while leaving fungi linguistically—and often institutionally—out of the picture. In 2018, Furci and mycologists Francisco Kuhar, Elisandro Ricardo Drechsler-Santos, and Donald Pfister published a paper formally delimiting “funga” as the fungal equivalent of fauna and flora: the diversity of fungi within a particular place or region.
The idea has traveled far beyond the original paper. The Fauna Flora Funga Initiative now counts more than 2,500 signatories across 77 countries and documents adoption or use of mycologically inclusive language by conservation groups, universities, museums, and government agencies around the world. In 2021, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Re:wild formally embraced the three-F framework, calling for fungi to be recognized alongside fauna and flora in conservation language…
Much more: “The Telluride Mushroom Festival: Where Fungal Love Runs Wild,” from @tamaramc.bsky.social
Still, we’d do well to remember (Sir) Terry Pratchett‘s wise reminder: “All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
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As we celebrate shrooms, we might recall that it was on this date in 1965, on their second day off during their tour of North America, that The Beatles rented a house owned by Zsa Zsa Gabor in Beverly Hills. There, they were visited by Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds as well as English actress Eleanor Bron, who’d appeared in their film, Help. While young girls stood outside the gates, John Lennon and George Harrison had their second experience with LSD, and Ringo his first. (Paul did not partake.) It was here that McGuinn introduced Harrison to Indian music, particularly that of Ravi Shankar.
Actor Peter Fonda was also present, and helped comfort Harrison as he grew unsettled after taking LSD and thought he was dying. According to Fonda, Lennon overheard him saying to George, “I know what it’s like to be dead,” recalling a childhood incident in which his heart stopped beating several times due to blood loss after accidentally shooting himself in the stomach. Lennon then told Fonda “You’re making me feel like I’ve never been born,” words that were later included in the Revolver track “She Said She Said.”
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Ted Tocks Covers
Chimes of Freedom
Originally posted on August 8, 2024
“Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing”On this day in 1962, Robert Zimmerman officially changed his name to Bob Dylan
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Ted Tocks Covers
Chimes of Freedom
Originally posted on August 8, 2024
“Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing”On this day in 1962, Robert Zimmerman officially changed his name to Bob Dylan
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Ted Tocks Covers
Chimes of Freedom
Originally posted on August 8, 2024
“Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an’ worse
An’ for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing”On this day in 1962, Robert Zimmerman officially changed his name to Bob Dylan
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Gram
#gramparsons #southafrica #thebyrds #60smusic #70smusic #music #musiciansky #musicsky #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #theflyingburritobrothers #keithrichards #mickjagger #theglimmertwins July 29, 1968 ~ On the eve of their South African tour, Gram Parsons leaves The Byrds, refusing to play in front of South Africa's segregated audiences. It's summer and The Byrds are out on tour promoting their Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album. They did London before departing for South…
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Gram
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Gram
#gramparsons #southafrica #thebyrds #60smusic #70smusic #music #musiciansky #musicsky #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #theflyingburritobrothers #keithrichards #mickjagger #theglimmertwins July 29, 1968 ~ On the eve of their South African tour, Gram Parsons leaves The Byrds, refusing to play in front of South Africa's segregated audiences. It's summer and The Byrds are out on tour promoting their Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album. They did London before departing for South…
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Gram
#gramparsons #southafrica #thebyrds #60smusic #70smusic #music #musiciansky #musicsky #chrishillman #rogermcguinn #theflyingburritobrothers #keithrichards #mickjagger #theglimmertwins July 29, 1968 ~ On the eve of their South African tour, Gram Parsons leaves The Byrds, refusing to play in front of South Africa's segregated audiences. It's summer and The Byrds are out on tour promoting their Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album. They did London before departing for South…
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Gram
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Bob Dylan "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" OST (1973)
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Bob Dylan "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" OST (1973)
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Bob Dylan "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" OST (1973)
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#NowPlaying #BobDylan #RogerMcGuinn #BruceLanghorne #RussKunkel #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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Bob Dylan "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" OST (1973)
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#NowPlaying #BobDylan #RogerMcGuinn #BruceLanghorne #RussKunkel #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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The 1960s singer David Crosby would have joined all over again
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SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: Davy Jones live in Pittsburgh 5/14/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFNmneZilI
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SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: Davy Jones live in Pittsburgh 5/14/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NFNmneZilI
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The day Roger McGuinn suggested his own replacement in The Byrds
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The day Roger McGuinn suggested his own replacement in The Byrds
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The best guitarist in The Byrds, according to Roger McGuinn
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“We were in Columbia's Studio A — a huge room — sitting on the floor, listening to six-foot speaker cabinets. I went, ‘Whoa, did we do that?’ It was so creamy & rich & with Larry’s bass line, I knew we had something.” www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/h... #RogerMcGuinn #music #guitarists #MusicSky
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“We were in Columbia's Studio A — a huge room — sitting on the floor, listening to six-foot speaker cabinets. I went, ‘Whoa, did we do that?’ It was so creamy & rich & with Larry’s bass line, I knew we had something.” www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/h... #RogerMcGuinn #music #guitarists #MusicSky
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Una meravigliosa Joni Mitchell, assieme a Bob Dylan e Roger McGuinn, esegue "Coyote"
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/651910/ The Byrds album Roger McGuinn thought disappointed fans #Entertainment #music #RogerMcGuinn #TheByrds #UK #UnitedKingdom
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The day Roger McGuinn’s dream collaboration came true
(Credits: Far Out / Fotoburo De Boer / Noord-Hollands Archief) Sat 6 December 2025 13:30, UK With just…
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The day Roger McGuinn’s dream collaboration came true
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“Bob wrote some notes on a napkin and said, ‘Here, give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it’.” www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit... #BobDylan #RogerMcGuinn #TheByrds #music #MusicSky
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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"Eight Miles High" is a song by the American rock band #theByrds, #written by #GeneClark, #JimMcGuinn (later known as #RogerMcGuinn), and #DavidCrosby. It was first released as a #single on March 14, 1966. Musically influenced by #sitar player #RaviShankar and #jazz saxophonist #JohnColtrane, the song was influential in developing the musical styles of #psychedelia and #ragaRock. Accordingly.
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When Roger McGuinn was turned away from meeting Elvis
(Credit: Alamy) Mon 18 August 2025 21:45, UK Anyone even mildly interested in rock and roll would consider…
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