So, I just finished sweeping all of the cobwebs out of this place, upgrading Wordpress to the latest version, putting the books away and cleaning up empty bottles.
I learned two things in this process:
Wordpress updates a lot during one year. The dashboard was almost comical compared to what I’m/we’re used to using today.
According to the [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on January 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »
So here I am, fellow babies, reviving my Sherlock Holmes blog – nearly one year to the day after letting it go dormant. It’s been a hell of a year – let’s put it frankly, 2009 sucked – and other matters took precedence.
But I’m going to go see the Robert Downey Jr. Holmes movie tomorrow, [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on January 2nd, 2010 | No Comments »
In the 1880s, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle practiced medicine from a small villa in the city of Portsmouth, and while he was there he created the Great Detective we all cherish to this day. There’s a plaque on that villa that commemorates the birth of Sherlock Holmes, but now residents of Portsmouth are (understandably) ready [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on January 6th, 2009 | No Comments »
Reports are out of a new, “modern†(whatever that means – Holmes in a hovercraft?) Holmes story getting ready for filming in January 2009.
The 60-minute film is bring produced by Hartswood Films, which also produced Jekyll and Men Behaving Badly.
Notably, one of the writers of the drama is Steven Moffat, who steps into some very [...]
Filed under: Non-canon, Odds and ends on December 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t have the time to make it to New York to see the North American Cultural Laboratory’s current production, “The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.” After reading up on it, I’m undecided as to whether that makes me happy or sad.
“THE UNCANNY APPEARANCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES” is a carnival-style crime investigation filled with live [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on December 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
From The Herald:
The childhood home of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle has been rescued and transformed to house children with special needs.
The neglected cottage and garden adjacent to the Cameron Toll shopping centre in Edinburgh, where the author reputedly saw his first fairies, will be home to Dunedin School for educationally fragile children.
The cottage, [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on November 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
The Texas Radio Theatre Company is gearing up for a new production of “The Final Problem,” and it has spawned some real generosity on their part – they’re gradually releasing recordings of their previous Holmes productions in MP3 format. Here’s their 2002 performance of “The Red-Headed League.” It’s a full-cast recording, in front of a [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on November 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
The Washington Post just ran a very positive review of the latest Sherlock Holmes computer game, “Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened,” in which everybody’s favorite detective goes up against the Cthulthu nasties of H.P. Lovecraft’s world.
Each conversation and clue is meticulously detailed in a notebook you carry. That is a good thing, because from time to [...]
Filed under: Non-canon, Odds and ends on October 19th, 2007 | No Comments »