John is a muppet bilby, Alison is actively drinking, and Liz MURDERS OWLS.
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Content warnings this episode: COVID (chapter 3), animal hunting (chapter 7)
- Letters of comment
- Malcolm Hutchison: ‘Listening to the sound John makes at start of this episode made me visualise John as a Muppet (in a good way)’
- Chris Garcia
- Roman Orszanski
- Jersey Gryphon: ‘The Hello Internet podcast did a vinyl edition episode before jumping the shark and doing a 4–5 minute wax cylinder episode.’
- Reclamation 2022
- 74 cases before tracing stopped,, all over the convention, lots of different fan networks
- ‘One-woman superspreader event Alison Scott has absolutely no regrets’ – Shona (Prufrax)
- Norwescon had case 3 and case 5 which will pass into fannish infamy
- A journal article discussing Omicron attack rates
- Fia Karlsson has won TAFF!
- The announcement
- The fanzine with the stats
- Follow Fia on Twitter
- Chicon 8
- Picks
- John: Detroit-style pizza from Square
- John also likes this Detroit-style pizza from San Francisco that he didn’t mention
- Alison: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (paperback, epub, audiobook, Amazon)
- Liz: Horizon Forbidden West (digital, PS4 disc, PS5 disc)
- Credits
- Cover art: Alison Scott
- Theme music: ‘Fanfare for Space’ by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)