John is channelling Ian Sorensen, Alison is on Sydney time, and Liz has written a poem.

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Letters of comment:

Max Harden tells us she listens at 3x speed, and says “If only we could speed up pub chats too”.

This gives John the idea for a panel show; have people listen to podcasts at various speeds, see how much they understood, and then have them drink alcohol and repeat!

Dave Mansfield says he often doesn’t have time to read all the BSFA nominees and thanks us for reminding him you can abandon books you dislike

Mark Plummer sent a clerihew to John which cannot be broadcast, and a triptych which can

The triptych is printed below

Liz wrote a limerick in response to Mark’s clerihew, also below

Alison’s GUFF trip has started!

Video diaries on YouTube

GUFF trip VR playlists on YouTube

Virtual conventions

The open letter to the CoNZealand committee signed by a number of Hugo finalists

Eurocon in 2020 – membership is €10

MIT Puzzle Hunt

Hugo Awards

Alison wrote about the Best Fancast

If you’re looking here for a picture of Alison looking confused, I misspoke: look at the album art instead

Anki

Aftershow

An Irish Goodbye

Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

Liz’s limerick

The poems of Croydon fan Plummer,

Entertain Octothorpe for the summer.

Though his rhymes are first class,

They’re too rude to broadcast,

Which is really a bit of a bummer.

Mark’s triptych

Doctor John the boy Coxon

Didn’t notice several LOCs on

Octothorpe because he hadn’t checked

And thus he failed to Mark protect

Liz Batty (also Doctor)

Didn’t know so many people had LOCced her

Octothorpe’s a fannish gestalt

But in this respect it’s all John’s fault

GUFF winner Alison Scott

Has several Novas and she has also got

Two Hugos for the fanzine Plokta

But unlike John and Liz she’s [Fremulon] not a doctor