"Where All Gossip is Welcome" [VALL]

by Scott Monty January 31, 2011

We're beginning a new feature here: scans of the latest issue of Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, Peter Blau's ("Black Peter") monthly newsletter of Sherlockian or Doylean gossip, published in print form since 1971 and as a text-only digital archive on Sherlocktron since 1985. In agreement with Peter Blau, we've arranged to publish facsimiles of the print newsletter here, so online readers can see what the newsletter looks like. Below the scan you can find links to the sites mentioned in the text - in most cases, directly to the article, video or publication, to save you from having to search for the terms.

The following is the January 2011 issue; please feel free to share it via email, social network, or embed it on your own site.

Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press, January 2011

Links (in order of mention)

• The Beacon Society www.beaconsociety.com
• The Baker Street Journal www.bakerstreetjournal.com
• The Baker Street Blog www.bakerstreetblog.com
• Interview with Laurie R. King and Leslie Klinger www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2011/jan/13/study-sherlock
• WNYC's coverage of the 2009 BSI Weekend www.wnyc.org/news/articles/120760
• A one-hour Studio 360 www.studio360.org/episodes/2009/12/25
• A show about the Gillette Luncheon www.culture.wnyc.org/articles/features/2010/jan/26/sherlock-love
• Ronald Knox and Sherlock Holmes - available at Wessex Press www.wessexpress.com
• Johnnie Taylor's "We're Getting Carless with Our Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt78O_5wmRQ
• Gillette Castle www.sachem.patch.com/articles/gillette-castle-state-park
• Sherlock Holmes News www.sherlocknews.com
• Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller www.edwardrhamilton.com
• Sherlock Holmes on U Media www.tinyurl.com/2cbujx5
• Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in Toronto www.tinyurl.com/45mmm32
• Sherlock Holmes and the Edwin Drood Mystery www.sherlockproject.blogspot.com
• Sherlock Project on Zazzle http://www.zazzle.com/Sherlockworld
• "Baker Street" by Gerry Raferty www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo (also referenced here on January 4)
• The Sherlockian E-Times www.sherlock-holmes.com/e_times11-1.htm
• Calabash Press Sale http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/Calabash%20Sale.pdf
• Anthony Horowitz www.anthonyhorowitz.com
• Anthony Horowitz is a Self-Professed Serial Killer www.thetimes.co.uk (by subscription only)
• "Sherlock Holmes: the Final Adventure" www.circleplayers.com
• Give Jeremy Brett a Posthumous BAFTA Award www.bafta4jb.com
• Wheels of Anarchy www.mxpublishing.com
• Conan Doyle Estate www.conandoyleestate.co.uk
• Tim Johnson in the Chronicle of Higher Education www.chronicle.com/article/article-content/125958
• Oregon Cabaret - Holmes & Watson Save the Empire www.oregoncabaret.com
• Memorial to Jason Rouby www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGC7DPUvb5Y
• Cold Hearted Murder www.stephengaspar.blogspot.com
• The BSJ on Twitter http://twitter.com/BakerStJournal
• The World Museum of Mining www.miningmuseum.org/samiekeith.html
• Te Ge'Tal-Headed League www.tinyurl.com/2dl2saj
• Big Nate www.comics.com/big_nate
• The official opening of the Conan Doyle Archive in Portsmouth www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179482045406255&index=1
• The Conan Doyle Collection www.conandoylecollection.co.uk
• Entertainment Tonight on the set of Sherlock 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ2BILWg5a8&feature=related & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efw8XvJ4KIw
• The Red Circle of Washington, DC www.redcircledc.org
• All "Scuttlebutt" archives on the Baker Street Blog www.bakerstreetblog.com/search/label/scuttlebutt
• "Scuttlebutt" at Sherlocktron www.members.cox.net/sherlock1/scuttle.htm

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