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Johnny Ninefingers
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I was Jack Janglebones on t'other site.

Retired guitarist. I used to be first-call at TPA Studios when Steve Kent ran it. Played with some people you've heard of. Sometimes more than once. I collect books.

Denizen of the Oak Grove, Wülferhampton.
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Good Morning, your Holiness.

Borrowing and reshaping the Christic's messiah's sermon, may the Oak Grove, in the spirit of ecumenicalism, suggest this reworking for your next homily?
Poem: The Sermon from the Pit. Shame to the proud: Their pride is shame. Shame on the cruel: Shame on them for their inhumanity. Shame on the unjust: Their injustice reflects shame upon them. Shame upon the thoughtless: To have the gift of mind and to misuse it: That is shame. Shame to the intolerant and also to the prejudiced: Their hatred is shame upon them. Shame to those who censor and prohibit And shame on those who limit freedom. More shameful yet are those who use their freedoms To deny those freedoms to others: Theirs is a shameful estate. Shame unto the wasteful: Such denies a common need and that is shameful. Shame unto those who kill in the name of religion: No God needs the protection of human assassin: shame unto them. Shame to the dealers of death and destruction: Theirs is shame: they value life too little. Shame unto those who stand by and do nothing When help or effort is in need, That is shameful indeed.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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I've been building my library since I was twelve. It has followed me through living in a squat, various flats, houses and a number of different relationships. It is still just shy of five thousand books. Here are some of my Pratchett firsts.
First editions of Terry Pratchett novels.
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Chaps, those of you who know Good Omens may want to follow these two. Rather expert in averting the coming crisis, and all that, what.
Screenshot of @mrajcrowley and @azfell-esq
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Finally got the HiFi working properly. Currently playing an old Matthew Passion.
Picture of my HiFi and an old box-set of Matthew Passion LPs from the '60s
October 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.
The demon, Crowley alights from his burning Bentley.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Because this is what the US government has become.
“If thou beest he—but O how fallen! how changed From him who, in the happy realms of light Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine Myriads, though bright!—if he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise Joined with me once, now misery hath joined In equal ruin; into what pit thou seest From what height fallen..." John Milton. Paradise Lost. Book 1.
September 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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They are tripping up over their own lies...
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Sideshow Bob walks into rakes.
September 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Just been to the @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social and came away having spent less than £100.

The Kerr is a signed first for the mother. The mushroom cards are for the Oak Grove Priests. A Good Girls Guide to Murder was the daughter’s choice. She needs watching.
July 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Oh my, The Gear Page has been hacked.
Screenshot of The Gear Page showing many posts about the wrong sort of non-guitar stuff - Quickbooks, Norton etc.
July 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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"The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL." (My emphasis.)

Though I dislike criticising Jarvis in any way. Looking at his peers; Oasis, Blur, Radiohead et al, he stands taller in hindsight.
Screenshot of the etymology of the word Mondegreen from Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
June 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Sometimes Herman Melville's ghost stalks the internets:
Post with pictures of Donald Trump with the caption "Dear cholesterol, just do it already." Underneath is a post that puts random lines from Moby Dick on BlueSky. The quote is "Already you know what his blubber is."
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lazslo in Casablanca
April 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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My presience only extends to a handfull of days, alas. (And never seems to give me lottery-winning numbers.)

Oh well.
Screenshot dated 17th April 2025 wherein Johnny Ninefingers captions the Borrowtz Report's post "The enemy of my enemy is Harvard" with "I'm picturing the cognitive dissonance of some poor chap from Yale."
April 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#TicketStubWed

This one's technically not a ticket stub. It's a full ticket that I used as a bookmark in the collected e e cummings and then forgot. I had to buy another ticket to go to the gig.
Ticket to Led Zep's Knebworth concert.
April 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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The prisoner pen and the writing implement are ever so slightly different.

I must consult my collegiate brethren if they chain their quills. Maybe those from the goose's right wings which don't curl into your eyes when scribbling.
Chains and shackles of a type used to restrain prisoners.
April 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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A very rude poem in English:
A very rude poem. If Lesbia were Clodia, I would be Gaius Valerius Catullus. Even your spit is more poisonous Than strychnine, and as addictive As heroin. I wouldn't trust your word To hang a man; provide an alibi; Or determine who's the father of your children. But then, Clodia, who listens to a word you say: I look and salivate instead, And dream of you, wanton, on my bed: Piss-flaps spread, arsehole pouting, Your spittle bathing my prick, As you beg for a routing Or some other magical trick. Fat chance, I think this someone else's dance. JB 15.03.01
April 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Is this on the level?

www.instagram.com/p/DH8YCP3obf...
Declassified's headline "How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands War".
April 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Thanks to: @pileusmedia.bsky.social

This sums up my position, though I was only born in 1961.
Macmillanite, Keynesian, mixed economy... centre-right in the '60s, far-left now.
Letter from Dr Stephen Watkins; Text as follows: In 1962 I was a Conservative. I believed privilege could only be justified by service, high taxes on very high incomes were necessary to prevent an entrepreneurial economy becoming a rentier economy, and Keynesian growth would finance public service improvements and a welfare state that steadily reduced inequality. I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions. Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire
March 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Luckily my Strats, a red '82 AVRI bought from Manny's in 1994 - it has a temporary replacement roasted maple neck, and a black turn-of-the-millennium CS which is my number 1, were bought before America went totally mad.

CS is on the right. Both 6 point "trems", Sperzels, and lots of fettling.
Red and Black Fender Stratocaster. Red is an '82 AVRI with a temporary new, roasted maple neck - the other needs a refret. Blackie is a 2001 CS. Weighs around 6 lbs.
March 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Someone asked me...
Picture from my loo of an old TPA promo poster and various bits of stuff from that era.
March 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Two bottles of the new Ardbeg limited release "Eureka!" were delivered on Friday, so I took one over to a chum's, and our small whisky-tasting club cracked the bottle. I went home with half of it.

It's rather nice.
Picture of a bottle of Ardbeg Eureka! Picture of a bottle of Ardbeg Eureka! showing it half-full; it's the optimist in me that thinks that, rather than it being half-empty.
March 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Books on the Matter of Britain and the Icelandic Sagas. Books on mythology and folklore. Books as myth.
March 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
A picture of Derek Fowlds, Nigel Hawthorne, and Paul Eddington as Bernard Woolley, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and Jim Hacker in Yes Minister
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Well... I just have to
Photograph of the covers of 9 books from my library. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks Rats and Gargoyles - Mary Gentle God's Monsters - Esther J. Hamori The Fan Man - William Kotzwinkle Patrocleia - Christopher Logue nineteen eighty-four, a novel - George Orwell Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and other spots - Vivian Stanshall
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Despite the misspelling of heroin, followed by the correct spelling, I stand by most of the things I wrote in this, some 18 years ago.
A wall of text that begins: but to be candid, over the past twenty years I've heard so many self-righteous capitialist wankers tell me unequivocally that the market is the only arbiter and the only measure, that I want to see many of them jobless, humiliated, and pilloried. As you so rightly say we live in a world full of human stupidity: wherein the major indicators of success, leadership, and influence are wealth and power. It doesn't matter how the wealth or power is achieved, all that matters is...the market. When the Capitalist paradigm finally falls over (as is beginning) and the process of expansion and development reaches its logical conclusion, I hope the children and grandchildren of these capitalists are more forgiving. Raping the world in order to fuel growth (which is what has been, and is happening under our best of all possible worlds system) is eventually unsustainable. It takes neither Popper nor Malthus to realise this. The late 20th Century/early 21st Century struggle for resources is going to draw a good number of lines in the sand, and folk are going to sit and analyse our economic policies for some time to come. If there is a history, history will judge us all. Of the many folk who have informed me that politics are subservient to economics, you were possibly the most reasonable. However, the view that economics drive politics will become unsustainable very soon, as it does in a Von Clauswitz Total War scenario. Capitalism is now beginning the process of, like Horace, eating itself. (Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay...) Given the stupidity you describe in the human population, is unfettered capitalism worse for society at large than widespread herion addiction? Heroin only kills one at a time. As an irritating aside, the same folk who once claimed that Economics ran politics are now complaining that climate change, the scrambling for resources, and emission controls are Political Problems. And waiting for mechanisms like epidemics to 'cul…
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM