Jeff Curtis
@jeffcurtiscle.bsky.social
Experimental/progressive/post-punk/old-time clawhammer banjo player, cat cartoonist, and freeform radio show host in Cleveland, Ohio.
https://coffeehut.bandcamp.com/
https://wruw.org/show/what-you-need/
https://coffeehut.bandcamp.com/
https://wruw.org/show/what-you-need/
This whole record is just unbelievably great.
sirom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
sirom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper, by Širom
7 track album
sirom.bandcamp.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
This whole record is just unbelievably great.
sirom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
sirom.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline. (my sub to the Post is literally ending in less than an hour's time, but I was happy to see this before I shut them out of my life..)
wapo.st/4qYmLVM
wapo.st/4qYmLVM
Listening to music most days could guard against dementia, study suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline. (my sub to the Post is literally ending in less than an hour's time, but I was happy to see this before I shut them out of my life..)
wapo.st/4qYmLVM
wapo.st/4qYmLVM
I didn't even know we had any rabbles here left to rouse! That Johnson - such a scallywag.
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I didn't even know we had any rabbles here left to rouse! That Johnson - such a scallywag.
Á propos of nothing in particular
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The Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone (Official Audio)
YouTube video by The Kinks
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October 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Á propos of nothing in particular
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Donald Trump Had An INSANE String of Speeches...And No Mainstreamer Said a Damn Thing
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open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
Donald Trump Had An INSANE String of Speeches...And No Mainstreamer Said a Damn Thing
Plus more on how to get out of this mess based on what we've successfully done before...
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Donald Trump Had An INSANE String of Speeches...And No Mainstreamer Said a Damn Thing
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open.substack.com/pub/scottsor...
Riding the crest of late summer into early autumn with this atmospheric recording.. Low-tuned fretless banjo with insect chorus:
coffeehut.bandcamp.com/track/darlin...
coffeehut.bandcamp.com/track/darlin...
Darlin'/g Cora/Cory/Corey, by Jeff Curtis
track by Jeff Curtis
coffeehut.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Riding the crest of late summer into early autumn with this atmospheric recording.. Low-tuned fretless banjo with insect chorus:
coffeehut.bandcamp.com/track/darlin...
coffeehut.bandcamp.com/track/darlin...
What an unbelievable asshole. Pure waste, fraud, and abuse at work here. Environmental abuse!! Idiot.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
What an unbelievable asshole. Pure waste, fraud, and abuse at work here. Environmental abuse!! Idiot.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A good friend of mine sponsors this Czech clarinettist every year to travel to Ohio and perform. President Asshole and his goons decided he was no longer fit to be here for some asinine reason. All musicians should boycott this country now.
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
Nebraska concerts canceled after Czech musician denied entry into U.S.
Jaroslav Skuta, a clarinetist from the Czech Republic, was scheduled to play four concerts - Saturday in Wilber, Sunday in Omaha, Monday in Lincoln and Tuesday in Fremont, but he was detained at the a...
nebraskapublicmedia.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A good friend of mine sponsors this Czech clarinettist every year to travel to Ohio and perform. President Asshole and his goons decided he was no longer fit to be here for some asinine reason. All musicians should boycott this country now.
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
He's seriously trying to sell this stinkwater. Who tf would want to smell like this garbage? I mean besides the obvious. What a fucking huckster. What a sad ending to this country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
He's seriously trying to sell this stinkwater. Who tf would want to smell like this garbage? I mean besides the obvious. What a fucking huckster. What a sad ending to this country.
Goddammit. If asshole wasn't so corpulent, dumb, lazy, crooked, and smelly, maybe he wouldn't be so intent on making the rest of the country be like him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Goddammit. If asshole wasn't so corpulent, dumb, lazy, crooked, and smelly, maybe he wouldn't be so intent on making the rest of the country be like him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
Some mind-bendingly great work going on..
youtu.be/8VMZal-1Jgg?...
youtu.be/8VMZal-1Jgg?...
A' Chailleach
YouTube video by Brìghde Chaimbeul - Topic
youtu.be
June 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Some mind-bendingly great work going on..
youtu.be/8VMZal-1Jgg?...
youtu.be/8VMZal-1Jgg?...
Reposted by Jeff Curtis
Words can’t express how much I despise Ohio Republicans and their relentless greed, stupidity, and malice. Here’s the email I got this morning from one of my local library systems:
April 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Words can’t express how much I despise Ohio Republicans and their relentless greed, stupidity, and malice. Here’s the email I got this morning from one of my local library systems:
Some fine psychedelic traditional folk fiddling here..
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/unacco...
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/unacco...
Unaccompanied Norwegian Folk String Virtuosi, ca. 1953-65, by Canary Records
7 track album
canary-records.bandcamp.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Some fine psychedelic traditional folk fiddling here..
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/unacco...
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/unacco...
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wruw.org
February 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Not that I expected anything different, but just home from the grocery store, I can confirm that prices on almost everything I got, and usually get, have increased noticeably since January 20th. Great job, America.
January 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Not that I expected anything different, but just home from the grocery store, I can confirm that prices on almost everything I got, and usually get, have increased noticeably since January 20th. Great job, America.
Deborah Solomon, in the Times, describes "a long brown box" looking like a coffin, "buried in the soft earth" under the bridge in this Egon Schiele painting. I'm pretty sure it's just a reflection in the water of the underside of the bridge. But see whatever you want, I guess..
November 27, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Deborah Solomon, in the Times, describes "a long brown box" looking like a coffin, "buried in the soft earth" under the bridge in this Egon Schiele painting. I'm pretty sure it's just a reflection in the water of the underside of the bridge. But see whatever you want, I guess..
@timothysnyder.bsky.social: "At the present stage of the strongman fantasy, people imagine an exciting experiment. If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time."
The Strongman Fantasy (updated 11/24)
And dictatorship in real life
open.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:33 PM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social: "At the present stage of the strongman fantasy, people imagine an exciting experiment. If they don't like strongman rule, they think, they can just elect someone else the next time."