Trail Mix

As I was putting together the Cinco De Mayo music list this week, I ran across a lot of good music. I think that right now we are in the Golden Age of musical performance, in the variety of musical styles, quality of arrangement and number of skilled musicians. It is truly a great time for a music lover to be alive and with the internet I get to hear it all.

So while todays selection wasn’t where I was headed when I started this post, it is where I ended up. A great group of musicians showing off their craft.

Sweet Georgia Brown – Wynton Marsalis Quintet Featuring Mark O’Connor and Frank Vignola

Enjoy, Jack

Addicted fox user derangement is a 21st century phenomena commonly referred to as F.U. or U.F’d syndrome.

Symptoms: inability to think for oneself, uncontrollable urge to lie, unable to discern reality, increasing aggressive behavior and obsessive compulsion to storm government buildings.

Epidemiology: highly contagious, episodic, acute or chronic

Treatment: Change channels often, watch PBS and listen to NPR at least one hour daily, read national newspapers and expand social contacts to include a variety of viewpoints.

Prophylactic and potential cure to alleviate pain of withdrawal and possible recovery:

1. remove from home and vehicle all items triggering the disease.
2. daily chant 10 times every 8 hours “trump is a sore loser.”

and fetched the nation’s goodwill

and gratitude, for example:

What Jill Biden did in one of Salt Lake City’s most diverse neighborhoods (msn.com)

Also known as critterville’s GOPer caucus –
except for it’s only truth tellers Rep. Cheney and Rep. Kinzinger

“While there are thousands of cryptocurrencies — including the Elon Musk tweet-fueled Dogecoin — Bitcoin and ether account for nearly two-thirds of the entire $2.2 trillion global crypto market.”

Who decides what it’s worth and for how long?   I noticed a question about crypto currency on this year’s tax form, but how is it tracked?   How are publicly-traded companies verifying the value of crypto on their balance sheets? Trillions of bits and doges equal how much in actual dollars out of the old school economy? It seems like a high-tech Ponzi scheme, but it also seems to make as much sense as the legalized gambling operation we call the stock market.

“But Ethereum has enjoyed an even bigger surge than Bitcoin because it is the cryptocurrency of choice for the purchases of many non-fungible tokens, or NFTs — which have taken the art and broader collectibles world by storm.“

NFTs seem more tangible, but as with all collectibles, the market may not always be there.