a.k.a. Don Hobbs, Sherlockian columnist, Texan, and man about town!
"He has the collection mania in its most acute form - and especially
on this subject."
-- Sherlock Holmes,
"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"
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"He has the collection mania in its most acute form - and especially
on this subject."
-- Sherlock Holmes, |
2008 Columns |
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January 6 -- The Galactic Sherlock Holmes 8.1 January 16 -- Sherlocking in New York City 2008 January 20 -- Ten Reasons I Love New York City January 27 -- Collecting February 5 -- Travelling Man February 10 -- The Galactic Sherlock Holmes Update February 17 -- The Great Whimseical Tour Rides Again February 24 -- Six Degrees of Sherlockian Separation 2008 March 2 -- A Decade With eBay March 9 -- Translation for Translation's Sake March 16 -- Three Hundred and Still Going Strong March 23 -- Scandanavian Holmes March 30 -- Sherlocking at 30,000 Feet |
April 6 -- The Diogenes Club of Dallas April 13 -- Sherlocking With And Without American Airlines April 20 -- It's That Time Of Year Again April 27 -- The One That Got Away May 4 -- Sherlocking in Odessa May 11 -- Sherlocking in Minneapolis (Part 1) May 18 -- Sherlocking in Minneapolis (Part 2) May 25 -- The Master Librarian June 1 -- Julie McKuras And The Tale The World Is Not Yet Prepared To See June 8 -- Sherlocking in Italy (Part 1) June 15 -- Sherlocking in Italy (Part 2) June 22 -- Sherlocking in Italy (Part 3) June 29 -- Stand On The Terrace
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July 6 -- Sherlocking with Professor Dr. Bruno Lumbrusco July 13 -- Sherlocking at the Kovacic's Don-B-Que July 20 -- Sherlocking With French Canadian Pulps July 27 -- Google Alerts -- Sherlock Holmes August 3-- Sherlocking in North Texas August 10 -- Living With A Criminal August 17 -- Sherlockian Anthologies Revisited August 24 -- Sherlocking in the Spirit of Beijing August 31 -- Sherlockian Cards September 7 -- A List of Known Translations of Sherlock Holmes September 14 -- Sherlocking in San Diego September 21 -- Sherlocking in Wisconsin September 28 -- Patience |
October 5 -- New Translations of the Canon October 12 -- Sherlocking in Houston October 19 -- The Anti-Peter Principle October 26 -- Green Sherlocking in Oklahoma November 2 -- Sherlock Holmes for President 2008 November 9 -- All Things Sherlockian: A Photographic Essay November 16 -- The All Things Sherlockian International Database November 23 -- Half Price Books -- a Dallas Original November 30 -- Sherlockian in Erie, Pennsylvania December 7 -- Sherlock Holmes in Chinese (1900-1940) Part One December 14 -- Sherlock Holmes is President! December 21-- In Spite of Myself: A Memoir of Christopher Plummer December 28 -- Ghosts of Christmas Past |
2007 Columns |
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January 7 -- It's A New Year January 14 -- The 2007 Sherlock Holmes Birthday Celebration Weekend January 21 -- Post NYC Blues (Not!) January 28 -- Sherlockian Searches February 4 -- Sherlockian Potpourri February 11 -- The Florida Sign of the Four February 18 -- The Chinese New Year February 25 -- Six Degrees of Sherlockian Separation - 2007 March 4 -- Chinese Sherlock Holmes, Part II March 11 -- It's Don Hobbs! March 18 -- Sherlocking in Illinois March 25 -- The Galactic Sherlock Holmes April 1 -- The Dorothy Stix Foreign Language Collection |
April 8 -- On the Wrong Track April 15 -- Calling All Burmese, Calling All Burmese April 22 -- Earth Day April 29 -- Sherlock Holmes in Tamil May 6 -- This, That, and the Other May 13 -- Graduation Day 2007 May 20 -- Sherlocking in Chicago May 27 -- Sherlockian Power Points June 3 -- Sherlocking For Five Years At Sherlock Peoria June 10 -- Sherlock Holmes and the Sopranos June 17 -- Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s June 24 -- High Cholesterol Saves the Day July 1 -- The Diogenes Club of Dallas 2007 Annual Picnic
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July 8-- Sherlocking in Minneapolis July 15 -- The Joke That Never Goes Away July 22 -- The Fifth Sign July 29 -- Sherlocking in New Orleans August 5 -- Holmes to the Rescue August 12 -- Sprachen Sie Deutsche August 19 -- The Galactic Sherlock: An Update August 26 -- Another Sherlockian Potpourri September 2 -- Sherlockian Clip-Art Quiz September 9 -- Sherlocking in Houston September 16 -- The Travelling Books September 23 - The Great Whimsical Sherlockian Tour of Oklahoma and Texas Rides Again September 30 -- Collecting Sherlockiana |
October 7 -- Sherlocking in Durant, Oklahoma October 14 -- Sherlocking with Emily Kate Hamill October 21 -- Lisez-vous des Francais? October 28-- Sherlockian Ramblings November 4 -- Sherlocking in Slovenia November 11 -- Sherlocking with Richard Sveum November 18 -- Sherlocking in Grapevine, Texas November 25 -- Sherlocking at the RSNA December 2 -- Sherlocking in Dallas December 9 -- What the Hell? December 16 -- Compliments of the Season December 23 -- Compliments of the Season December 30 -- Another Year At Sherlock Peoria |
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2006 Columns January 1 -- Sherlock Peoria, Volume 5, Issue 1 January 8 -- Sherlocking Across the International Dateline January 15 -- Sherlocking in the Phillipines January 22 -- Sherlocking in Santa Barbara January 29 -- Update: The Great Whimsical Movie February 5 -- Rekindling the Fire February 12 -- Sherlocking With Carole Nelson Douglas February 19 -- Bathtub Friendly Sherlock Holmes February 26 -- Sherlocking in Japan March 5 -- Sherlocking at the 78th Annual Academy Awards March 12 -- Brokeback Sherlock Holmes -- NOT! March 19 -- The Great Whimsical Sherlockian Tour of Oklahoma & Texas Documentary Project March 26 -- The Berlitz School of Sherlockian Bibliography April 2 -- Stand On The Terrace April 9 -- Hound of the Hillbilly Baskervilles April 16 -- Sherlocking in Washington State April 23 -- Sherlocking with Lord Stanley's Cup April 30 -- Sherlockian Potpourri May 7 -- Sherlocking with Lord Stanley's Cup, Part Two May 14 -- Sherlocking in Idaho May 21 -- The Sherlockian Magazine that Will Not Die May 28 -- Happy Birthday, SherlockPeoria.net! June 4 -- Sherlocking on Texas Farm Road 4 June 11 -- Sherlocking in New York City June 18 -- Sherlocking in Wyoming, Part 1 June 25 -- Sherlocking in Wymoing, Part 2 July 2 -- Sherlocking at the Movies July 9 -- Sherlocking on Holiday July 16 -- I Am The Maniac Collector July 23 -- Sherlocking in Indianapolis July 30 -- Me Talk Sherlock Pretty One Day August 6 -- Sherlockian PotPourri August 13 -- Signs of the 4 August 20 -- A New Sherlockian Society (Maybe, Maybe Not) August 27 -- Sherlocking On California's Central Coast September 3 -- Sherlocking With Isaac Asimov September 10 -- Sherlocking in Maryland September 17 -- Sherlocking in the USA September 24 -- Sherlocking in San Francisco October 1 -- Sherlocking In Texas October 8 -- Sherlocking in Idaho, Again October 15 -- Dominica del Corriere October 22 -- NIDW Foreign Language Magazines: Lektyr October 29 -- Sherlocking (sort of) with Ben Sanford (1927-2006) November 5 -- The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Review November 12 -- The Don-A-Thon November 19 -- OBS! November 26 -- The Galactic Sherlock Holmes December 3 -- Ratiocinations December 10 -- Sherlocking at Home December 17 -- The Digitally Re-mastered Sherlock Holmes December 24 -- Merry Christmas! December 31 -- New Year's Resolutions |
2005 Columns January 2 -- The Ransom Center Collection January 9 -- The Word Museum January 16 -- Sherlocking in New York CIty, 2005 January 23 -- Macedonian Translation of Sherlock Holmes January 30 - Another De Waal Project February 6 - The Great De Waal Project, Part II February 13 - Sherlocking in Not-So-Sunny Florida February 20 - The Sign of the Three, or Was It Eight? February 27 - The Art of Getting P.O.ed March 6 - Come Stand On The Terrace With Me March 13 - The 2005 Whimsical Tour of Oklahoma and Texas March 20 - Playing the Game March 27 - Collecting Sherlockiana April 3 - Views of a Maniac Collector April 10 - Sherlocking in San Diego April 17 - Sherlock_Everywhere April 24 - Going Out Of Business Sale May 1 - The Whimsical Tour Dilemma May 8 - Sherlockian Doldrums May 15 - Interlingua Sherlock Holmes May 22 - What A Long Strange Trip It's Been! May 29 - Semi-Sherlockian Fun With My Digital Camera June 5 - G.T.I. (Gone to Italy) June 12 - Sherlocking in Switzerland June 19 - Sherlocking in Italy June 26 - Those Were The Good Old Days July 3 - A California Don-B-Que July 10 - Sherlocking in Connecticut (Not!) July 17 - Sherlocking Vs. Summer July 24 - Volume 28, Number 4 July 31 - Why Collect Books You Can't Read? August 7 - The Russians Are Coming! August 14 - The Great Whimsical Sherlockian Tour of Oklahoma and Texas (2005) Part 1 August 21 - The Great Whimsical Sherlockian Tour of Oklahoma and Texas (2005) Part 2 August 28 - Sherlocking in Los Angeles September 4 - The Annual Picnic September 11 - Sherlockian Networking September 18 - Native American Translations September 25 - Sherlocking in the Pacific Northwest October 2 - Sherlocking in New Mexico October 9 - Sherlocking in Romania (Sort of) October 16 - Europe and the Translation October 23 - Sherlock in Sri Lanka October 30 - Sherlocking in Esperanto November 6 - Sherlocking the Nail Place November 13 - Are You a Sherlockian, If So, Why? November 20 - Thanksgiving - 2005 November 27 - Sherlocking in Armenia December 4 - Nearly Sherlock-less Week December 11 - December Sherlocking December 18 - Merry Christmas December 25 - Year-End Library Festivities |
2004 Columns January 4 -- Volume Three, Number One January 11 -- Here, Puppy! January 18 -- A New Sherlockian Is Born January 25 -- Sherlock Holmes's 150th Birthday Celebration February 1 - There Are Always More Books To Find February 8 - ELECTRONic Sherlockiana February 15 -- What's a Sherlockian to do? February 22 -- The Vicarious Sherlockian February 29 -- The Six Degrees of Sherlockian Separation, Part Two March 7 -- He Is Everywhere March 14 -- The Sherlockian Completist -- An Impossible Task March 21 -- Collectors Overload March 28 —The Perils of Being A Non-English Sherlock Holmes Collector April 4 — What's In A Name? April 11 — Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover April 18 -- The Vicarious Sherlockian's Dilemma April 25 -- He is Everywhere, Part II May 2 -- The Maniac Collector Does It Again May 9 -- Moving In On The Remaining Eight May 16 -- The Hand of the Baskervilles May 23 -- Sherlocking in Los Angeles May 30 -- Happy Second Anniversary June 6 -- The Joys of Book Collectors June 13 -- Another One Bites The Dust June 20 -- A Sherlockian Runs By It June 27 -- The Travelling Sherlockian July 4 -- Sherlocking in Chicago July 11 -- Sherlockian Let-Down July 18 -- Lost in Translation July 25 -- Sherlockian Sharing August 1 -- Sherlockian Word Power August 8 -- I Need Your Help! August 15 -- The Crew of the Barque LONE STAR/ DCD Annual Picnic August 22 -- My Father Is A Sherlockian August 29 -- Esperanto Sherlock Holmes September 5 -- The Thirtieth Anniversary of The Afghanistan Perceivers September 12 - The Sherlockian Olympics September 19 - Anticipation September 26 - Anthologies 2 October 3 - The Maniac Collectors -- Ten Years Old October 10 - The Great De Waal Labelling Project October 17 - PhotoStamps™ October 24 - Quick Readers October 31 - Why? November 7 - I Feel Much Better Now November 14 - Sherlocking at the Gasfitter's Ball November 21 - The Annotated Les Klinger November 28 - Definition of a Sherlockian December 5 - Christmas Wish List 2004 December 12 - The Six Degrees of Sherlockian Separation Vs. Christmas Movies December 19 - 2004 Christmas Card December 26 - Sherlocking With Leslie S. Klinger |
2003 Columns January 5 -- New Year's Resolutions January 12 -- New York City January 19 -- Sherlocking for Azebaijani January 26 -- The Beacon Society February 2 -- Sherlockian News of the World February 9 -- Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes February 16 -- I Love This Game February 23 -- Those Nasty Eleven March 2 -- Maniacal Pursuit March 9 -- Sherlock is Slipping March 16 -- Working vs. Collecting March 23 -- To French or not to French March 30 -- Sherlocking in the Sun(day) April 6 -- Sherlock Holmes Ephemera April 13 -- Spam April 20 -- DeWaal #C03117 April 27 -- A Trip Down Sherlockian Memory Lane May 4 -- Dang, There Went Another Good Idea May 11 -- Sherlockian Calling Cards May 18 -- Estonian Translations of the Sherlock Holmes Stories May 25 -- Sherlocking in Cleburne, Texas June 1 -- How Sherlock Holmes Helped Me Get A Job June 8 -- Year Number Two June 15 -- Sherlocking in Nashville - Sherlocking with Monk June 23 -- Sherlocking in Omaha June 30 -- DeWaal #C3502 July 6 -- Some Notes On Collecting Sherlockiana July 13 -- Speaking of Sherlock Holmes July 20 -- Burning the Torch July 27 -- Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, Part Two August 3 -- My Summer Reading August 10 -- The Crowded Box-room (The Second Edition) August 17 -- I Am Waiting, Still August 24 -- My Friend, Takahiko Endo August 31 -- I Am Not Waiting Any Longer September 7 - A 62% Sherlockian September 14 - DCD 8th Annual Picnic Report September 21 - Six Degrees of Sherlockian Separation September 28 - Tricky Little Translations October 5 - What To Write? October 12 - Sherlocking in Cally-fon-ya October 19 - The New Computer October 26 - Sherlocking in Washington, D.C. November 2 - Sherlocking in Houston November 9 - Sherlockian Fusion Party November 16 - Sherlockian Christmas in November November 23 - Sherlocking in Turkey November 30 - Sherlock Holmes, Naked December 7 - Compliments of the Season December 14 - Sherlock Holmes and Christmas December 21 - Christmas 2003 December 28 - Sherlopoly |
2002 Columns June 2 -- Anger June 9 -- Italian June 16 -- I'm Still Waiting June 23 -- You Read All Them Books? June 30 -- Sherlockian Challenge July 7 -- Gawgan July 14 -- Hurray For e-Bay! July 21 -- Sherlock (this month) July 28 -- Pastiches August 4 -- Pulp! August 11 -- Sherlockian Friendships August 18 -- Circles, Red and Others August 25 -- "the library" September 1 -- What a difference a year makes September 8 -- Another Sherlockian picnic September 15 -- Sherlock Gets Sick in Alabama September 22 -- The Maniacal Pursuit September
29 -- The 21 Words October 5 -- Lake Sherlockbegon October 13 -- An International Affair October 20 -- Another International Affair October 27 -- Kindness November 4-- Real Life and the Sherlockian November 17 -- Japanese Sherlockians November 24 -- To Innuit or Not to Innuit December 1 -- These Are The Good Old Days December 8 -- Anthologies December 15 -- Compliments of the Season December 22 -- Memories of John Bennett Shaw December 29 -- Bah . . . Humbug |
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