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Episode 131: The All-New Sherlockian Dot Net

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When <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99">Chris Redmond</a> decided to give up <a href="http://sherlockian.net/">Sherlockian.net</a> after 22 years, there was great uncertainty about its future. Would it be abandoned, archived, deleted or sustained? And who would handle any of the monumental work of modernizing the site that had its humble beginnings in 1994?<br />
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Enter Liza Potts, an associate professor at Michigan State University. Potts runs the <a href="http://wide.cal.msu.edu/research/">WIDE Research Center</a> (Writing, Information and Design Experience) there and just so happened to like Sherlock Holmes. But she had no idea what was in store for her.<br />
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With a handful of students and a select advisory board of Sherlockians, Prof. Potts set out to wrangle some 3,000 links and hundreds of pages, giving them the modern treatment. But as with all technical projects, there are human elements and stories galore that make this a fascinating adventure.<br />
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1:48 We lied and call upon the ghost of Dudley Moore for help<br />
5:44 An update from Episode 130<br />
7:00 A Philadelphia story<br />
11:45 Wessex Press<br />
13:30 Happy Birthday to _______<br />
16:54 Welcome Liza Potts<br />
17:29 First meeting with Sherlock Holmes - via Jeremy Brett<br />
24:37 Study abroad program<br />
30:04 Taking on Sherlockian.net<br />
43:15 Participatory culture<br />
54:38 The site logo<br />
1:02:51 What's next?<br />
1:11:44 Wow!<br />
1:13:38 The Baker Street Journal<br />
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<li><i><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/10/to-be-or-not-to-be-hound.html">A History of the Hounds of the Baskerville (sic): 1943-2017</a></i></li>
<li><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose47">Episode 47: Re: Vampires</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wide.cal.msu.edu/research/">WIDE Research Center</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose99">Episode 99: Christopher Redmond</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170914052452/http://sherlockian.net/">The original Sherlockian.net</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bakerstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page">Baker Street Wiki</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sherlockian.net/">The all-new Sherlockian.net</a></li>
<li><a href="http://thenounproject.com/">The Noun Project</a></li>
<li>Sherlockian.net on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/sherlockiannet">@sherlockiannet</a></li>
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Episode 131: The All-New Sherlockian Dot Net

"Fixing the Nets" [HOUN] When Chris Redmond decided to give up Sherlockian.net after 22 years, there was great ...

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by Scott Monty

To Be or Not To Be (a Hound)

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Over the years I've proudly said that I was a full-fledged canine member of one of the noblest and oldest Sherlockian societies — not through any merits of my own, I hasten to add, but because of the leadership's hospitality and courtesy. But I now have reason to think that I've been inflating my credentials all these years.<br />
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The story starts in 1981, when I was was already a long-time Sherlockian but not a particularly well-known one. I'd been part of the youth movement in the 1960s, a <a href="http://www.bakerstreetirregulars.com/">Baker Street Irregular</a> since 1966, a <a href="http://torontobootmakers.com/">Bootmaker of Toronto</a> since the society was founded in 1972, and since 1979 the co-editor of the Bootmakers' magazine <i>Canadian Holmes</i>. But I didn't do much Sherlockian travelling, and of course I didn't have the continent-wide network of Sherlockian friends that the internet has now made possible.<br />
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So it was kind of a big deal when I was planning a business trip to Chicago (those were the days, when my employer could afford to send me places), got in touch with somebody or other about maybe having lunch with a couple of local Sherlockians while I was there, and was pleased and intimidated to find that my visit coincided with the annual dinner of <a href="http://www.houndsofthebaskerville.org/">The Hounds of the Baskerville [sic]</a>. Would I like to attend the event as a guest? Duh; yes I would.<br />
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And I did, on October 5, 1981, at a place on North Wells Street called <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/steak_joynt.html">That Steak Joynt</a> (which itself has a rather <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/steak_joynt.html">mysterious history</a>). Under the leadership of <a href="http://www.houndsofthebaskerville.org/biographies/#Mangler"><b>Bob Mangler</b></a>, Master of the Hounds for some forty years, the program included such things as the Hounds customarily do, and a showing of the half-hour "Silver Blaze" starring Canadian actor <b>Christopher Plummer</b>. I remember very little about the evening, to tell the truth, apart from a conversation with a young woman at my table who wanted to tell me about the limitations on women's involvement in Sherlockian matters in Chicago, a topic that I understand has not yet been exhausted 36 years later. (The Hounds didn't admit women members until a couple of decades after my visit, but women guests were welcome at its one meeting of the year. [<i>More on this in <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose130">Episode 130</a> of <b>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</b> - ed.</i>]) <br />
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Much of what I know about the traditions of the Hounds, and indeed about the details of that 1981 dinner, is based on an admirable volume that has just been published, a "<b>75th Anniversary Edition</b>" history of the society, written half by <b><a href="http://www.houndsofthebaskerville.org/biographies/#Nieminski">John Nieminski</a></b> (taking the story up to 1983) and half by the present Master, <b><a href="http://www.houndsofthebaskerville.org/biographies/#Terras">Donald Terras</a></b>. Launched at the 2017 dinner a few weeks ago, a gala <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/10/episode-130-hounds-of-baskerville-sic.html">celebration of the society's dodranscentenary</a>, it tells the story in some detail from the society's 1943 founding by the great <a href="http://www.vincentstarrett.com/">Vincent Starrett</a> up to the present day. I'm delighted to have acquired a copy of the book, and to find my name on page 59, which confirms my presence at the 1981 dinner and alleges, all too plausibly, that I made myself conspicuous by distributing copies of my little journal, <i>Canadian Holmes</i>, "left and right."<br />
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Now here's the thing. I came home from Chicago with a pewter Hounds pin (which I still wear occasionally at Sherlockian events) and the distinct impression that the Master of the Hounds had awarded me an "honorary membership" in the society. I reported briefly on my Houndship at the next meeting of the Bootmakers of Toronto, and was rewarded by a call from long-time Bootmaker (and Baker Street Irregular) David Skene-Melvin: "Now you are officially a son of a bitch!" <br />
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But the aforesaid page 59 lists four people who were inducted into Hounds membership at the 1981 dinner, and none of them is me. The historian also refers to "certificates", and if my loot from that evening included a certificate of any kind, I certainly don't know where it is. From which I conclude that my "honorary" status didn't really make me a Hound, and that's a <a href="http://sherlockholmespodcast.com/">trifle</a> embarrassing, since I have been claiming ever since that I was one.<br />
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But who knows? Maybe some year soon, I'll get back to Chicago on the auspicious October night, and betake myself to the annual dinner of the Hounds, and we'll see if they let me in.<br />
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To Be or Not To Be (a Hound)

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by Chris Redmond

Baker Street Elementary — A Kernel of Truth

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In 1922, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself wrote a Sherlock Holmes parody. Until that time, he had suffered (gladly or not is open for debate) at the hands of parodists who created their own versions of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in stories, comics, plays and more.<br />
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But Conan Doyle's short story "<a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/ref/watson-trick-manuscript.htm">How Watson Learned the Trick</a>" was a unique addition to the oeuvre in that it was created specifically for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary%27s_Dolls%27_House">Queen Mary's Dolls House</a> — a project that called for top artists and craftsmen to contribute to the building of and possessions within a doll house for Queen Mary, wife of George V. Conan Doyle wrote the 503-word story, taking up 34 pages, which was bound into a tiny volume for the bookshelf of the doll house, measuring 1.5 inches high by 1.25 inches wide.<br />
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The "trick" Watson supposedly learned was Holmes's methods of observation and inference, which he put to work, only to have Holmes bat down his every assumption. For those interested, you may <a href="http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/thetrick.html">read "How Watson Learned the Trick" by clicking here</a>.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary — A Kernel of Truth

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Episode 130: The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)

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The 75th anniversary of a Sherlockian organization is a fine time to reflect on its history. So we did just that with Don Terras, BSI ("The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant") from his unique perch near an actual lighthouse.<br />
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The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic) has its roots in Chicago, thanks to one of the "Holy Three" of early Sherlockian giants, Vincent Starrett. There are about a score of other groups in and around Chicagoland, and Don takes us on a brief tour of them, as well as the storied history of the Hounds.<br />
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If you're interested in how a Sherlockian group manages to celebrate the past while simultaneously planning for the future, and about some greats in Sherlockian lore, tune in to hear Don's storytelling.<br />
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1:44 The perfect time<br />
3:07 Stumping for Wessex Press<br />
4:58 Prior to charging into the Valley of Death...<br />
7:21 Introducing Don Terras<br />
11:53 How one comes to live at a lighthouse<br />
18:41 First meeting with Sherlock Holmes<br />
21:45 Discovering Sherlockians<br />
26:03 How the Chicago societies differentiate themselves<br />
29:06 <i>Queen City Corpse</i><br />
31:16 The 75th Anniversary of the Hounds<br />
37:15 The Vincent Starrett headstone project<br />
41:50 Some milestones of the Hounds history<br />
46:00 The fragile nature of Sherlockian groups<br />
50:03 The Hounds in the years ahead<br />
54:25 When the Hounds went co-ed<br />
1:08:45 The <i>Baker Street Journal</i><br />
1:10:16 The first female published in the <i>Baker Street Journal</i><br />
1:11:25 The Sherlock Holmes Brand Assistant<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.houndsofthebaskerville.org/" target="_blank">The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ihose.co/ihose61" target="_blank">Episode 61: The Secret Life of Vincent Starrett</a></li>
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Episode 130: The Hounds of the Baskerville (sic)

"a gang in Chicago" [DANC] The 75th anniversary of a Sherlockian organization is a fine time to reflect on its h...

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by Scott Monty

(Mis)remembered Words

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"Don't you see now whence these words have been taken?" [HOUN]</h4>
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Sherlockians have been writing a torrent of words for a century or more — "<a href="http://www.worlds-best-detective-crime-and-murder-mystery-books.com/1887.html">Never has so much been written by so many for so few</a>," said Christopher Morley — and many of their ideas, phrases and coinages are burned into my brain. Sometimes, however, they're burned just a little wrong. Here are two examples.<br />
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There's an unsurprising tendency for Sherlockians to write about the things they themselves are interested in, no matter how unrelated to Sherlock Holmes. For years I've been telling people that there was an article somewhere, decades past, making fun of that tendency and citing the likelihood that somebody who loves deep-sea diving will ransack the Canon for proof that Mr. Holmes, too, would don diving gear and descend into the depths of the ocean.<br />
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But I could never get back to that reference. Even the editor of the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/"><i>Baker Street Journal</i></a>, where I was pretty sure I had seen the passage, couldn't find it, and he is more adept than I am at searching the <a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/ebooks/ebsj.html">electronic edition of the BSJ</a>. (I begin to think that everybody is more adept than I am at searching the eBSJ, actually.)<br />
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Well, I stumbled onto the original recently, and it turns out that nobody could find it because I was misremembering it. The key word isn't "diving," it's "fishing". The source is a letter to the editor of the BSJ from <b>Howard Brody</b>, published in 1981, who describes what he calls "the Egotistical methodology" of Sherlockian scholarship:<br />
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"I (the author of this hypothetical piece) am very interested in deep-sea fishing. I am very fond of myself and think of myself as a very sagacious and perceptive individual. I am very fond of Sherlock Holmes and think of him as a very sagacious and perceptive individual. Therefore, Sherlock Holmes must have been very interested in deep-sea fishing. Furthermore, by various mental gymnastics, I can locate a passage in the Canon to support this idea." </blockquote>
He cites "A Scandal in Bohemia," where we learn that Holmes had in his index the biography of "a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep sea fishes." Conclusion: "it is established as clear truth that Holmes spent every spare minute in deep-sea fishing."<br />
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My other memorable, but mis-remembered, passage was a letter to the editor complaining about references to sex. I couldn't find it in the <i>Baker Street Journal</i>, and the editor of the BSJ couldn't find it even with his electronic aids, for what turned out to be a simple reason: it didn't appear in the BSJ, but rather in the <i><a href="http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/category/journal/">Sherlock Holmes Journal</a></i>, in 1979.<br />
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Again, the source was a letter to the editor, this one complaining about an article on the subject of "Thor Bridge" that had appeared in the previous issue. J.B. Tatum wrote in part:<br />
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"Should I wish to read about sexual perversion and penises there are many other readily available magazines to which I might subscribe. One reason that I enjoy Sherlock Holmes so much is that… the Canon is so utterly free of such modern filth."</blockquote>
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It was 1979, remember, before explicit fanfic, before "consulting husbands," before <i>In Bed with Sherlock Holmes</i> — though not before Sam Rosenberg's <i>Naked Is the Best Disguise</i> or Larry Townsend's <i>The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i>, so Tatum was being a trifle selective.<br />
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Still, his (her?) indignant protest is highly quotable, and next time I have occasion to refer to it, I'll try to get it right.<br />
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Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro: Inspired by Sherlock Holmes

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The English author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a> (<i>The Remains of the Day</i>, etc.) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. And there is, of course, a Sherlockian connection.<br />
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Ishiguro was born 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. Six years later, his family moved to Guildford in Surrey, England, when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography.<br />
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It was in Surrey young Ishiguro first discovered Sherlock Holmes. Before he found the Holmes books in the local library he had, like so many other young boys, hardly been reading books at all.<br />
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In a 2015 interview, Kazuo Ishiguro told a reporter from the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/books/review/kazuo-ishiguro-by-the-book.html"><i>New York Times</i></a>:<br />
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"I was around 9 or 10, and I not only read obsessively about Holmes and Watson, I started to behave like them. I’d go to school and say things like: 'Pray, be seated' or 'That is most singular.' People at the time just put this down to my being Japanese."</blockquote>
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Soon after, he began writing his own stories. He had previously created a James Bond type of spy called Mr. Senior, but when he got into Sherlock Holmes in a big way, he started writing a pastiche of a Victorian detective story, beginning with a client arriving and telling a long story. He went to a primary school where they were experimenting with modern teaching methods and there were no defined lessons.<br />
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In "<a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5829/kazuo-ishiguro-the-art-of-fiction-no-196-kazuo-ishiguro">The Art of Fiction No. 196</a>" in the <i>Paris Review</i>, Ishiguro said:<br />
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This Sherlock Holmes-inspired primary school writing affected him as a writer later in life as well:<br />
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Kazuo Ishiguro's favorite Sherlock Holmes story was – and still is – <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. "It was scary and gave me sleepless nights, but I suspect I was drawn to Conan Doyle’s world because, paradoxically, it was so very cozy", he said in the <i>New York Times</i> interview.<br />
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After his childhood Sherlock Holmes obsession, Kazuo Ishiguro stopped reading – he got interested in pop music instead – until his early twenties. His Holmes interest still exists, however, which he showed in a 2015 conversation with Neil Gaiman, published in the <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2015/05/neil-gaiman-kazuo-ishiguro-interview-literature-genre-machines-can-toil-they-can-t-imagine"><i>The New Statesman</i></a>. After some comments made by Gaiman regarding Sherlock Holmes and copyright, Ishiguro said:<br />
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"Since Sherlock Holmes went out of copyright, certainly, he has started to mutate and evolve in a very energetic way. I don’t know if it would have been possible, for instance, to have the Cumberbatch modernised series, had it been under copyright. And Holmes is a very interesting example, I think, of a figure who’s mutated over the years and evolved."</blockquote>
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Kazuo Ishiguro's interest in literary detectives can also be seen in his novel <i>When We Were Orphans </i>(2000), which introduces a famous detective called Christopher Banks, solving a mystery in Shanghai in the 1930s.<br />
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