John Feetenby

@feexby.bsky.social

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Inverness-based ex-bookseller who believes that Ambridge exists within the Whoniverse. On Letterboxd and elsewhere as Feexby. Physical format advocate. The NHS is keeping me alive. Panglossian. Woke af. He/him.

Ghosty baseball hat
The Masters Of Cinema steelbook edition of Island Of Lost Souls featuring Bela Lugosi in full makeup. A monochrome marvel.
Sweet chilli salmon in a honey and lime sauce. Noodles, also.
Some pink and white roses jammed artlessly into a “vase” that is fundamentally a repurposed curved pint glass.
The 1980s Penguin paperback cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
A sunflower in its final stages.
I think it might be a hydrangea.
A Biblically accurate angel, looking like a feathered, tentacular armillary sundial with a detached eye at its centre. Next level Cthulhu stuff.
A movie quote with a still from the film Slither (2006): “My easy going nature is getting sorely fucking tested” Nathan Fillian as police chief Bill Pardy
The courtyard outside my room in the Highland Hospice
The author in a cosy, but unseasonal-looking cricket jumper
Rory some sort of big, blue, furry lion monster thing from the children’s TV programme Animal Kwackers.
My Dad. Zip up cardigan. Classical music on the headphones which we can only now guess at. Look how happy he is though. (It’s pretty happy.) I miss you, Dad.
The wise old tree changing into her Autumn clothes.
A poorly man with ill-advised, and yet somehow quite cool, wooden sunnies has a post-soup ginger beer with two of his kindest, most patient friends. Thank you, the Highland Hospice.
John and Lawrence. The Highlanders. Aye.
An old man, battered but unbowed.
Some brightly coloured plates and bowls.
View over the river Ness from the hospice.
An electric rickshaw.
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds.
The Eureka! Masters Of Cinema release of Claire Denis’ movie Trouble Every Day.
An actual Jensen motherfucking Interceptor, because if you could you would.
Me, old and broken but cheerful. It’s been such a good life, and it hasn’t even finished yet.
Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life, desperately trying to find a puerile joke funny at a Christmas party. “The Ooh Aah Bird is so-called because it lays square eggs.” I don’t understand that.
From the book Tootles The Taxi. An angry-looking ambulance declaims: “I'm Archie the ambulance Sounding my bell, Bandages ready, A stretcher as well. Straight from the hospital Out to the town, Where someone it seems Has just been knocked down!”
Tony, an anxious-looking red tractor: “I’m Tony the tractor, I work on the land. A farmer sits on me And gives me a hand. I’m tied to the plough That turns the rich soil, And my life it seems Is one round of toil.”
2000AD from the late 1970s. Judge Dredd, Ro-Busters and Johnny Alpha, the motherfucking OG Strontium Dog foreground. A horrifying dino from Flesh frames the whole thing. 10p that cost. Just ten pence and it’s still in my head fifty years later.
Cover detail from the 88 Films 2025 release of Neither The Sea Nor The Sand, part of their Tigon Collection.
Cover detail of the 88 Films 2025 Blu-Ray release of Eloy De La Iglesia’s The Cannibal Man (1972).
Godzilla - cover detail from the Criterion 4K release.
The four flawed heroes of Silverado having finally come together ride out to finally settle Brian Dennehy’s ass once and for all. This is a GREAT film.
Me and the family.
An extract from Private Eye. Winners include Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. Emphatically NOT Kevin Keegan.
A vote for Trap One in the British Podcast Awards. https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting