I had the pleasure of seeing the great @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social at the Blue Note Tokyo during her recent 3-night residency. She performed with Francesco Turrisi, Jason Sypher and Kaoru Watanabe. A wonderful performance!

Quoting economist Paul Krugman: “Special credit goes to Nathan Tankus, an expert on ‘the technical details of monetary policy’, who has become the man of the moment.”
Follow @nathantankus.bsky.social to keep informed about what Elon Musk is doing with our federal payments system at the Treasury.

I am old enough to remember the terror of children I knew personally who were consigned to life inside an "iron lung," because of polio infections in the days before effective, mandatory vaccines

RFKJr is old enough to remember that too. So is man who appointed him. (Getty Images photo, mid1950s)

I first learned about Charlie Nagatani from the documentary "Far Western.”

Tonight, at Stage Coach in Chigasaki, I met him!
More details about the wonderful documentary
"Far Western" can be found on the "History" page of my website, BluegrassinJapan.com/history

I have been enjoying finding old friends here, and making new friends, too. If you know folks who like music, words, walking, coffee, old Stetson hats, and boots, tell them that I will sitting on my virtual porch, and look forward to a visit.