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Long have Sherlockians puzzled and conjectured over Watson's marital situation, and the wife who is there, but not there, proposed to as "Mary Morstan" and never spoken of by name again. Such mysteries live on for years, decades even, in our minds . . . until some little thing, just one little innocent thing, triggers the answers that were there all along. I have Max Magee to thank for this.…
Before and after our weekly recording of The Watsonian Weekly podcast, Madeline Quinones, Heather Hinson and I always have some other Sherlockian gossip and chat that goes unrecorded. An occasionally there's some chat that might have been worth putting on the podcast. Tonight it just occurred to me to ask a simple question: "What are your top five Sherlock Holmes movies?" Fifty years ago, there…
This weekend, I left my laptop at home. Being on the committee for a weekend conference requires a little more attention than my usual "time to tippy-tap on the laptop" reporting as it goes, and this one definitely did. St. Louis's "Holmes in the Heartland 2026: Sherlock Haunts!" definitely deserved all of one's attention this past weekend. I was weary when I arrived, having entertained a handful…
“Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.” — Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic There are folks in our hobby of Sherlockiana that love a footnote. Maybe their high school English teacher was especially comely on the day term papers were explained and their youthful hormones gave the lesson a bump. I dunno. Me, I don't need them…
A year ago this past April, the Baker Street Irregulars hosted their Canonical Conclave of Scion Societies in Indianapolis, an event intended to inspire. A lot of the Sherlock Holmes societies represented came away with renewed energies, and personally, I came away with an idea. I shared it with a couple of people at that event, who were enthusiastic for it, but ideas are easy. Fleshing them out…
So, yeah, this will only make sense to . . . oh, wait, it's nonsense! Editor's Note: It was not a club mix of "Itsy Bitsy Spider."
Over the years, I've come to discover than any adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, and whether I like it or not, really keys in on the actor and their choices/direction in portraying the character. Scripts can rise or fall, but there's something in the man himself who must no by off-key when playing along with my inner music that is what Sherlock Holmes means to me. The fascinating thing is that I have…
It seems like whenever I get pulled into a trivia night, it seems to be as the wild card in the deck. Usually, I avoid themed trivia nights, being a more "random info" sort of guy, but some of my friends from work needed a sub, and it wasn't just a trivia night -- it was a True Crime Pottery Night. Having not done a pottery night, which has been a common social outing for years now, and intrigued…
A friend brought up the topic of folks vocally hating pastiche the other night, talking about fanfic as well, and it was interesting to me how close and yet how far apart the terms "pastiche" and "fanfic" can be. And why one fuels the flames a bit more than the other. Fanfic, of course, is simply that fiction written by fans, both extending and deep-diving into some existing intellectual property…
The Baker Street Chronicle Duration: July 1981 to July 1985, twenty-three issues, four years Frequency: Bimonthly Editor: Pattie Brunner Club Affiliation: See below Sometimes things happen in the Sherlockian world in reaction to other things in the Sherlockian world. Clubs splinter off from other clubs. Articles are written in reaction to other articles. And in some cases, journals come out of…
