Unhappy birthday!
Dec. 22nd, 2009 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elionwyrThere is a city in New Mexico, mostly unknown to most of us, that sits pretty much in the middle of its state along Rt 66.
This city? Moriarty, New Mexico.
A careful perusal of the above rather modest website reveals nothing of why this town should be (in)famous. Indeed, a scouring of the internet brings back little information about the town's dubious claim to fame, and oh I suspect this shows evidence that the Napoleon of Crime's infrastructure remains intact lo these many many years.
Once Upon a Time, and far too long ago now, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars known as "The Brothers Three of Moriarty" gathered at the Frontier Saloon on (if memory serves me correctly) October 31st for their annual Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty 'celebration.'
And I am blogging this because of the following snippet of IM conversation tonight:
elionwyr: I really wish I could have attended just one of the Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty events
lionel: of these i am not familiar
elionwyr: It's ok.
elionwyr: It's a special sort of geekery that is
lionel: which confirms your geekdom
..Oh yes. Yes it does.
(For those who are reading this going, "Napoleon of what? Click here. Sigh.)
This city? Moriarty, New Mexico.
A careful perusal of the above rather modest website reveals nothing of why this town should be (in)famous. Indeed, a scouring of the internet brings back little information about the town's dubious claim to fame, and oh I suspect this shows evidence that the Napoleon of Crime's infrastructure remains intact lo these many many years.
Once Upon a Time, and far too long ago now, a branch of the Baker Street Irregulars known as "The Brothers Three of Moriarty" gathered at the Frontier Saloon on (if memory serves me correctly) October 31st for their annual Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty 'celebration.'
And I am blogging this because of the following snippet of IM conversation tonight:
elionwyr: I really wish I could have attended just one of the Unhappy Birthday You B*stard Moriarty events
lionel: of these i am not familiar
elionwyr: It's ok.
elionwyr: It's a special sort of geekery that is
lionel: which confirms your geekdom
..Oh yes. Yes it does.
(For those who are reading this going, "Napoleon of what? Click here. Sigh.)
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Date: 2009-12-22 02:52 pm (UTC)Speaking of, have you read the Enola Holmes novels by Nancy Springer? YA, featuring Sherlock's much younger sister. Oh, but she is very much his sister and the arc of the books is that she's trying to keep away from Sherlock and Mycroft so they won't send her off to school to become a proper Victorian lady. Very cute, and amusing as hell watching the master get skunked by his little sister. *G*
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Date: 2009-12-22 07:23 pm (UTC)Have you read Carole Nelson Douglas' Irene Adler books? The first few are really good. (I think it kinda jumps the shark at Castle Rouge, and now that I look I see there are more books I didnt' know about..augh!)
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Date: 2009-12-22 08:04 pm (UTC)Have you read the Stephen King short story where Watson solves the case?
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Date: 2009-12-22 08:45 pm (UTC)And no, I've not seen the King book! *adds it to MY list* *grin*
Did you read "Shadows over Baker Street"..?
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Date: 2009-12-23 12:38 am (UTC)