View from the Dundas Peak this weekend.

Sunset in Innisfil Ontario last weekend.

At the 2025 Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale held at the Lillian H. Smith branch of the Toronto Public Library held on Saturday May 31st I met up with four pulp fanatic friends of mine; from L to R Tony Davis, John Woolley, Don Hutchison, & Peter McGarvey!

It was a nice turnout this year!

Busman’s holiday: spent my day off doing a 3-hr ED pickup run for Caroline & a relative at HGH post-overnight stay. Traffic, Rx drop-off, Tims break, Rx pickup. Follow-up’s tomorrow. Not quite the break I had in mind!

The 2nd edition of Jon Peterson’s 'Playing at the World’ (2024) is in two volumes.

Vol 1 has an impressively extensive mention of Lee Gold and the APA she founded, 'Alarums & Excursions' in chapter #17 “Dungeons and Dragons and Los Angeles Fandom” , and in chapter #19 “Alarming Excursions”. #A&E

Alarums and Excursions: how zines remade D&D and the web 50 years and 500+ issues later, the longest-running argument about RPGs is still going.

While truncated, the rest of the article behind a paywall , this is a nice overview of Lee Gold her RPG APA 'Alarums & Excursions'

www.rascal.news/alarums-and-...

#A&E

Woot! Any chance for a limited edition boxed set?

I know next to nothing about Substack.

Richard Iorio has the idea of a Substack devoted to such an ongoing discussion and community.

The cover of Alarums & Excursions #593 was heart- and gut-wrenching. After ~50 years, editor Lee Gold was ending the legendary RPG APA due to health. In its honour, I leave you one final archaic stage direction;

Exeunt Tableaux - they leave the stage, and the scene freezes, full of memory