Octothorpe

138: A Tedious Number of Questions About What It’s Like to Run a Games Shop

Octothorpe

Show Notes

John chaired, Alison is off on holiday, and Liz has the agenda. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected], join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Bluesky or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: None

Letters of comment

Ang Rosin (Facebook)

Andrea Bell and Derek Hockridge

Bridget Bradshaw (Facebook) Chris Garcia (email) Farah Mendlesohn (email, Facebook) Jake Casella Brookins (Bluesky) Louise Hughes (Bluesky) Neil Ottenstein (Facebook) Paul Weimer (email) Roseanna Pendlebury (Bluesky) Shi Lala (Facebook)

Worldcon 2027: Montreal bid

Terry Fong has stepped down There has been some news since, but we’ll discuss it next episode…

Worldcon 2025: Seattle

The results of the consultative votes The Business Meeting agenda Instructions on how to attend the virtual Business Meeting Kate Secor’s annotated Business Meeting agenda

Picks

John: All the Ghosts in the Forest by Lorraine Wilson Alison: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Liz: Old Soul by Susan Barker

Credits

Cover art: “Whizz-Fizz Agenda Time” by Alison Scott

Alt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 138” and “Whizz-Fizz Agenda Time!”.

Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

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