I'm speed-reading the entirety of the Holmes canon right now and it is only with great effort that I avoid using the word "whilst" in my casual emails.

I have come to the deep fandom history now.

Who is the biggest Sherlockian I know? Who is the biggest Sherlockian YOU know? I would like to interview some Sherlockians, ideally women, ideally people who have their own takes on the character.

I know Sherlock had a lot of imitators, but does Watson? To clarify, what post Sherlock (or hell, pre-Sherlock) detectives had a Boswell who narrated their aventures? (follow up question, has anyone ever done Samuel Johnson, crime-solving scholar?)

How old is the Phantom of the Opera supposed to be? Get into the weeds with me and Lord Andy on Phantom age gap discourse: open.substack.com/pub/reinahar...

THEATRE MAKES MY LIFE BETTER

Surrounded by Sherlock content on all sides.

I really don't want to carry my portable pump on my trip to New York this weekend, can I just find a pervert on craigslist?

CONLADIES OF HISTORY UNITE! Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...

I'm reading "A Study in Scarlet" for the first time and Brigham Young has a cameo in it? Also Sherlock Holmes kills a dog.

Why is Shakespeare so good at angry ladies?

Watching Peacemaker with the husband and he noticed the alternate dimension has no non-white people, even as background. Putting it here for the record so he can get the credit if it’s a plot point.

What do you do when the Wayback Machine fails you? Is it just over? Are all things lost to time?

Obsessed with these women who grabbed a sidewalk table at a coffee shop on Printer’s Row and -started selling books from it-.

Text based social media is way stickier for me than video. Is this because I like text better, or are the algos on text-based sites more devoted to serving me up rage bait? Related question- is rage bait most effective in text form?

I am angry at a ho on substack

playwrights are heroes. While the rest of you are worrying about the atomization of society and meaning caused by the collapse of religion we are personally bringing people together in a darkened room to create in their hearts a sudden knowledge of the wise infinity of love.

IDK, when a teenage girl did this sort of thing, she went to JAIL. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

why is everyone mad at blue sky?

I called my new Substack “The Boyfriend Review,” which makes me smile. I’m considering changing it to “Boyfriends of Literature” which might make it easier for readers to find, but does not make me smile. Please share your opinion.

Why does every discussion of "Is it possible to date across political lines?" sidestep into "we cannot stereotype people because of who they voted for?" Are these not separate topics?

My first newsletter is live! It's about writing a book, and watching the silent film Hamlet where Hamlet is secretly a girl. Kindly click and subscribe so I can get my first ten subs and satisfy the hungry machine's demands. reinahardy.substack.com/p/the-author...

If I were a teenage girl I would consider making Asta Neilsen my entire aesthetic: giphy.com/explore/asta...

Transcedent moment half an hour ago when all the church bells in my area rang "Oh Maria" from Sister Act

My book title is "Shitty Boyfriends of Western Literature." I'm calling my Substack "The Boyfriend Review" but now I'm worried that it doesn't get across what it is (weird esoterica about Darcy, Gatsby, et al).

Poetry scholars- is there any kind of poetic tradition that separates the writer from the performer, as is sometimes done in music and usually done in theater?

Why don't the incels of the world Cyranomaxxx? (It means excel at everything but with panache)

This 1950 movie of Cyrano de Bergerac entirely hits, it touchés. The adaptation is smart and most importantly José Ferrer is very sexy.

moliere is kind of a dick

Back in the aughts I gained some fondness for Groupon but the company is fucking riddled with scams. I bought MS word from them like an idiot, and some random dude with an email account sent me a pirated key.

I just let a Patricia Lockwood book eat my whole day, and actually I don't want to talk about it. Read it though.

Did Anne Carson leave me a note in this library book? What does Anne Carson’s handwriting look like?

This is wild because at arts camp we had active shooter drills which terrified the children, but the one day we got a real lockdown it WAS a bear.

art takes time and it's worth the wait

This tickles me for some reason: www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Gast...

After searching in vain for the Jamie Lloyd Cyrano de Bergerac I gave up and started "Let It Shine," the 2012 Disney Channel original where Cyrano is a teenage battle rapper. He's already said he wants a girl he can "take to the Atlanta Jazz Club." I don't need you anymore Jamie Lloyd.

I have not spent anywhere near enough time here. Also who wants to do an immersive Cyrano at Berger Park?

Cyrano de Bergerac topics, per the CUNY library system: Drama man-woman relationships ugliness

I really want to watch the Jamie Lloyd Cyrano. Is it gettable, anywhere? I would pay like 20 bucks to stream it if anyone would let me.

More of this kind of shit, please: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/c...

Canonically, the phantom writes fanfic. Do with that what you will.

Phantom truly a musical and technical genius, invented synths in the late 1800s

Weinermobile at golden hour

Love watching the 25th Anniversary Phantom because Sierra Boggess plays it like she's having about five orgasms in the first act.

I very much liked F4, but I really wanted to jooje the dialogue a little to point up the really great parenthood/superhero and Storm/Surfer emotional beats. It’s probably the only time I’ve longed to do a polish rather than a rewrite.

Y2k sleaze memoirs have to include a cameo from Courtney Love. It is the law.

Stage 28, where they filmed the Lon Chaney phantom, (and the Claude Raines Phantom) was not demolished until the late 2000s! If Universal held out just a little longer they could have caught the immersive theatre boom and they could be prepping it right now for the west coast premiere of Masquerade

I have just read this incredible long-form article about how the opera ghost really did exist.

It is a great pity* that I never had a group of friends in high school that were all obsessed with the Phantom of the Opera. *mercy?

Do you ever get stuck on a particular word and have to take care to avoid using it too much? I'm having a moment with deranged.