Episode 69: The Anchorite APA

I was completely blindsided by this because I just didn't expect in 2026 to ever get the chance to see or review a modern APA.

I'm just ignorant.

I guess there are APAs out there.

I didn't think it was a thing anymore.

The last time I physically had an APA in my hands, it was the 80s.

online i've read stuff later reproductions and stuff so i was just completely charmed by this and happy to support it and give it whatever publicity we can give it i didn't know there were such things anymore okay corbett

i was stoked i was like totally stoked i was about the same as jim as far as like what this is still a thing i mean like they send you paper in the mail with a stamp No way.

Turns out it is.

And that's kind of cool.

And you can get it as a PDF.

Sorry, just interrupt to say one last thing.

I grew up with a bunch of Catholic friends, even though I didn't grow up Catholic.

And I happen to know an inkwright is like a religious hermit or something.

So

as soon as this

landed on my computer screen, I started thinking of that one character in Life of Brian when Brian's running from everybody and there's the naked guy whose beard is so long it covers his junk just sitting by himself in a hole in the desert.

That's an anchor, right? Ah, cool.

Liz?

I was actually part of a local Dallas area APA back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Reading this brought back so many memories of that time for me.

The submission format was similar to what I was used to doing.

The general rules for participation, et cetera.

My APA didn't have a specific theme.

that we were all nerds to one extent or another.

And even if everyone there didn't actually game themselves, they all knew enough about it and were familiar to be able to discuss with one another if it came up in anyone else's submission.