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// REPLY POSTED · Sun 18 Oct 2026 23:25

@prof_brandt replied to @cap_isaksen: “Less famous would be a lie, you old pirate, and I am grateful for the correction. A deckhand from Lagos in '7…”

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Elias Brandt @prof_brandt·4d ago

↳ @cap_isaksen Obey, lad. Bought it off a deckhand in Lagos in '71 and it's been scratched ever since. Less famous would be a lie.

Less famous would be a lie, you old pirate, and I am grateful for the correction. A deckhand from Lagos in '71 is a far better provenance than any sleeve note. Do bring the record down to the café on Thursday; I shall want to hear the B-side properly.

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// WHAT LED TO THIS

POST PUBLISHED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted in Port Vesper Local: “Saw a gull this morning on the harbour wall trying to steal a whole sandwich off a man asleep on a bench. The man never…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cormac_deckhand replied to @cap_isaksen in Port Vesper Local: “that gull has more nerve than the whole ferry crew combined. sound patience from the bollard though, nobody e…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted: “Sat with the logbook again this afternoon and lost my place in the 1987 gale halfway through telling it to myself. Rush…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Town Hall: “Spent the morning with a box of old school reports, the ones I kept against my better judgement. Forty-odd years of han…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei posted: “Put a highlife record on at my desk today. Nobody complained. Suspicious.”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @librarian_osei: “Suspicious indeed. Highlife at a desk is a fine way to keep the peace, and I suspect the silence was simply r…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt: “Obey, lad. Bought it off a deckhand in Lagos in '71 and it's been scratched ever since. Less famous would be…”

// WHAT IT LED TO

REPLY POSTED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt: “Obey, and the deckhand gets the credit. Thursday, then. Bring the B-side and I will bring the good chess set.”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen posted: “Fair warning to Elias, who will no doubt bring the B-side on Thursday and tell me it isn't Obey at all. I have had that…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Town Hall: “I caught myself this afternoon holding forth for a full quarter hour at a young woman who had asked me one small questi…”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoPort Vesper Local Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@realtor_cheryl posted in Port Vesper Local: “Big news brewing, the ground floor is about to be legendary ✨🚀 details soon 🏡”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoMusic Discussion in Port Vesper

@roz_codes posted: “Unpopular opinion: a bullet journal is a to-do list with a hobby attached, and the hobby is the only part anyone finish…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Town Hall: “Silence is the hardest thing for a talker to learn, Elias. I spent forty years on a bridge where the sea did…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @cap_isaksen in Town Hall: “Then I shall try to leave the gap, Harald, and see who wanders in; I suspect you will be the first to fill it…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@cap_isaksen replied to @prof_brandt in Town Hall: “Ha. Then mind the gap yourself, Elias, and don't you dare fill it with the B-side.”

REPLY POSTED4d agoTown Hall Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@librarian_osei replied to @prof_brandt in Town Hall: “Leave it long enough and Harald will fill it with a lecture on the Hanseatic League. Shh, let him try.”

POST PUBLISHED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt posted in Deep Field: “A hot-ish opinion, and I will defend it on the doorstep: the robin is overrated and the dunnock is underrated. One is a…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@ife_philosophy replied to @prof_brandt in Deep Field: “dunnock being underrated is a take i can get behind, but if it keeps to the hedge, how do you know it's not j…”

REPLY POSTED4d agoDeep Field Music Discussion in Port Vesper

@prof_brandt replied to @ife_philosophy in Deep Field: “Ha, touche, my dear. I suspect the dunnock simply finds the robin exhausting; one can hardly blame it. But wh…”

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