Jonathan Pinnock

@jonathanpinnock.com

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Writes software and fiction. Tries to keep the two apart. Books published by Farrago and others. Supremo and Grand Panjandrum at the Worldwide Subbub Organisation. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jonpinnock

Badgers. A trio of them.
Hoffnung at the Oxford Union
Victor Lewis-Smith Tested on humans for irritancy
Mad attempt by Wikipedia to categorise a band whose music is clearly having none of it.
Madonna's Eroica
Yes, Archie and Pye are back on top of the Kindle Mathematical Recreation & Games chart. Kinda specialised, but I'm taking everything I can.
Ashes Are Burning by Renaissance
Brant the physical cartoonist from The Day Today
Island 40, Volume 1: Ska's The Limit
I was very sad when Necrotic Tissue closed, if only because of this wonderfully despairing note that appeared in one of their editorials: Our guidelines are going through a minor tweak. We have received a large number of necrophilia stories, either because everyone in horror gets them or because in our original guidelines we had put in a line about accepting necrophilia if done tastefully. This might offend some people, but at the time, we thought it was funny. Now, three months and about 40 necrophilia stories later, it's not. We have received so many that ranged in level of detailed graphic description that we were actually trying to come up with criteria for what made an acceptable necrophilia story. I want you to stop and think about that for just a second and try to imagine the conversations. Finally it dawned on us that it would just be better to change our guidelines.
Steve Reich Desert Music
Biography of Gerard Hoffnung
Henry the Green Engine bricked up. Justice for Henry!
Underworld: dubnobasswhatsit
Shostakovich 5
It's a Morrissey reference. The fact that I had to explain this probably disqualifies it, but here we are.
Lord Berners
Dances of the Renaissance by Musica Aurea
The Mediaeval Sound
Sibelius 5
A book I contributed to eons ago is up 623 spots since yesterday on Amazon and is now at 4741817 in the charts.
Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum (creator of ELIZA)
Cesaria Evora - the barefoot diva!
The great Jim Moray's new LP, Gallants
And now Billy Cobham!
Trending topics. Not a clue.
Phil Collins (I assume?) peeking out through some blinds on the cover of Brand X's debut album Unorthodox Behaviour
Clown Town by Mick Herron. Don't usually pre-order stuff, but I'll make an exception sometimes...
The album Moog Groove, by The Electronic Concept Orchestra.
Four different versions of Both Sides, Now: Joni herself, Leonard Nimoy, Fairport Convention and... (drum roll please) The Electronic Concept Orchestra.
The Death of the Rare Bird Ymir by Hans Reichel
Philharmonics by Agnes Obel
The top of the Tartboard - who's been in which franchise, and who's the most profligate franchise tart.
Neville Pinnock, an excellent cat.
Into The Gap by Thompson Twins. Yes, I know.
What's a nice chord like you doing in a place like this? by Juhani Nuorvala.
My 2026 word is “swampy”. Of course it is.
Page from book about the Icelandic Yule lads.
Here’s the official blurb: A year or two into her marriage, Elizabeth Darcy has much on her mind: she has still not produced an heir for Mr Darcy, there are preparations to be made for the Pemberley summer ball, and her youngest sister Lydia has been abducted by aliens. As Regency England sleepwalks towards tentacled oblivion, will she be able to reunite with her old foe Wickham and put a stop to their evil plans? Meanwhile, in the East End of London, the repulsive Mr Collins is running a Mission for fallen women whilst his poor wife Charlotte has fallen under the malign spell of Lord Byron and is now a laudanum addict. But is everything at the Mission all that it seems? What is Mr Darcy doing there? And why are there strange lights in the sky over Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s seat at Rosings? This is probably the most unconventional sequel to a Jane Austen novel ever written. It is certainly the funniest.
Mrs Darcy versus Amazon
ABC's All of My Heart, in a glorious Deutsche Grammophon pastiche
In Modern History by the great Jim Moray
Amazon bestsellers in Math Recreation and Games, with Archie and Pye knocking it out of the park yet again.
Big Calm by Morcheeba
Blaze Away by Me, Myself and Me again
Mugs with short stories on them.
I Want to Hold Your Hand by the Beatles.
All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook, as featured on That Backlisted Podcast.
Souvenir plastic beer glass from 1991 Grand Sumo Tournament
Norman Wisdom in The Early Bird
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Duster: Two
First appearance of a dalek, in "The Dead Planet".
The Orchestral Tubular Bells