Today was a day of projects at the office.<\/p>\n
I had nothing pressing that I had to do, no deadlines pressing down upon me (a rarity, that), so I decided to clear off some projects that were not priorities, that were things I wanted to do but simply had not had the time because of pressing deadlines on other things.<\/p>\n
There were three projects. Two involved copious amounts of HTML code. One of those meant digging down into a database, too, a database which also happens to be impossible to search or filter.<\/p>\n
The third meant writing about Muppets. And Sherlock Holmes. Because BOOM! Studios, a comic book publisher, is doing a series entitled, as you may have deduced, Muppet Sherlock Holmes<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The article on Muppet Sherlock Holmes<\/i> I’d been wanting to write since before Memorial Day, and I would never get to it during the week, and I always intended to write it over a weekend, only I never did because other things, like Doctor Who<\/i> or redesigning the website<\/a> would impede the way.<\/p>\n Today! Today, however, I had the time to write what I wanted to write. I decided that the best way to write about Muppet Sherlock Holmes<\/i> would be to write it as Watson would write it.<\/p>\n The premise of Muppet Sherlock Holmes<\/i>, as you might have guessed, is that the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been recast with Muppets — Gonzo is Holmes, Fozzie is Watson, Kermit is Inspector Lestrade. The latter casting is a little subversive, if you thing about it; Lestrade is studious, officious, and also a bit dim. Gonzo, however, is perfect; Holmes is, frankly, a bit of a weirdo in Doyle’s stories, and no one does weird in the world of Muppets better than Gonzo.<\/p>\n Very few people will read what I wrote of Muppet Sherlock Holmes<\/i>, so here’s a little piece to give some flavor:<\/p>\n “But, Holmes,” said I, “what of Inspector Lestrade’s role in the affair?” <\/p>\n “Well, he is quite the amphibious fellow,” said Holmes. <\/p>\n “You mean that he is a frog,” said I. <\/p>\n Holmes tutted. “Really, Watson, no need to be vulgar. The accident of his birth is hardly Lestrade’s fault. If he happened to have been born a tadpole and grew up in a pond, that it barely something to hold against him. I would no more chastise Lestrade from his ampibiousness than I would remark upon your ursine-ness.” <\/p>\n “Ursi-whatsis?” <\/p>\n Holmes frowned. “A bear, Watson. You are a bear.” <\/p>\n “Oh, quite so, Holmes. Quite so.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The first issue is due in comic shops August-ish.<\/p>\n I had a lot of fun writing the article. “The best and wisest weirdo I have ever known,” I wrote, echoing Doyle’s line from “The Final Problem” where Watson waxes philosophic on Holmes, dead at the bottom of Reichenbach Falls.<\/p>\n A productive day, all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a day of projects at the office. I had nothing pressing that I had to do, no deadlines pressing down upon me (a rarity, that), so I decided to clear off some projects that were not priorities, that were things I wanted to do but simply had not had the time because ofContinue reading “On Friday, Muppets, and Mirth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[708,29,4124,4102],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-muppets","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-work","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}