15: Tempests in Teapots

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 9 a.m.

John, Alison and Liz are running a convention.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media.\nLetters of comment:\nClaire Brialey #1\nMark Plummer #1\nClaire Brialey #2\nLilian Edwards & Alison Scott\nZoom breakout rooms are now available\n\nMark Plummer #2\nBridget Bradshaw\n\nEastercon\nThe Tweet\n\nPunctuation.\nWebsite.\nEmail us.\nFollow us.\nLike us.\n\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license.\nPoetry corner!\nClaire Brialey\u2019s poem:\nThis isn\u2019t prose; perhaps it makes it better.\nAt least it\u2019s all in email, not a letter.\nDiscussing podcasts makes you rather meta,\nAnd less is more, so let\u2019s not get courgetter.\nMark Plummer\u2019s clerihew:\nAlison Scott\u2019s erudition\nDoes not enslave her to tradition\nBut John\u2019s misuse of the word \u201cplethora\u201d\nWill be the death of her