DogFaceBoy, Twang, the Cheshire Cat, Steerpike and El Hombre Malo struggle with technical gremlins and seasonal torpor to discuss the year past and the one to come.  The Cat lives up to his fictional namesake by disappearing regularly and El Hombre wanders in the Skype wilderness before finding the way in.  Nonetheless some highlights are identified, and in AW tradition an argument breaks out over Joanna Newsom.