A few months ago I saw some posts on Twitter that featured the covers to a series of Italian young adult novels under the title of “Sherlock, Lupin, & Me,” written ostensibly by Irene Adler (actually, Alesandro Gatti), about adventures she had when she was young with Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin. I thought theContinue reading “The Dark Lady”
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Panthers Maul Rays
I had never seen a baseball game end on a mercy rule before. After work last night, I drove down to Calvert Hall to see the Putty Hill Panthers take on the Baltimore Rays. These are teams in the Maryland Collegiate Baseball League. I discovered their games by accident last year when I found aContinue reading “Panthers Maul Rays”
Strange New Cybertronian Civilizations
Yesterday IDW Publishing announced their next Star Trek comic book crossover, Star Trek vs. Transformers. And, for a fun twist, it’s a crossover that uses the style and characters of Star Trek: The Animated Series, melding the Filmation Star Trek look of the 1970s with the Sunbow Animation Transformers look of the 1980s. According toContinue reading “Strange New Cybertronian Civilizations”
Reflections on a Life
The lights were up in an upstairs neighbor’s apartment when I got home. He had died, sometime around the end of May, the 30th or 31st. His body wasn’t discovered in his apartment until Monday. When I got home from from work that night, there were police cars in my complex’s lot, and my next-doorContinue reading “Reflections on a Life”
A Cemetery Underwater
It was all I could do not to vomit when I stepped from the Beetle. I’ve been to Baltimore’s Loudon Park cemetery a few times in the last year, first to locate my great-great-grandmother’s grave, which I found right away, and then follow-up visits to find my great-grandfather’s brother’s grave, which I finally located aboutContinue reading “A Cemetery Underwater”
Art at the Ballpark
Saturday I bought a painting at the Harrisburg Senators game. I had been planning on attending the Saturday game, between the Senators and the Altoona Curve, for a while, as the Senators were inducting Stephen Strasburg into their Bobblehead Hall-of-Fame. In the middle of the week, the Senators also announced that Daniel Murphy and BrianContinue reading “Art at the Ballpark”