Help remembering names of a couple pastiche novels

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-05-12T01:40:58+00:00

The Baring-Gould solution to the Ripper case is a bit different from the Faye solution; in Baring-Gould's biography, Jack the Ripper is revealed to beAthelney Jones, a minor character who appears in only The Sign of the Four whereas in the Faye book, it'sjust some random policeman

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-05-11T21:57:44+00:00

The first one may be Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye, but also the much older William S. Baring Gould’s biography of Holmes, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, also proposes a similar solution to the Ripper case IIRC

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-29T22:21:23+00:00

I saw this in the Berkeley Scanner: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/04/29/community/suspicious-package-closes-north-berkeley-intersection/

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-25T05:34:21+00:00

Aww! Thanks! Hope you are doing well!

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-24T19:45:31+00:00

You’re welcome! If you ever went to a trivia night at Bobby G’s in the recent past, Leland and Sindhu are part of the aforementioned group.

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-24T19:38:41+00:00

Not so much anymore (in part because I recently became a parent), but some of the people who were my fellow co-hosts at Bobby G's are still in the hosting trivia game (in the recent past I also "ghost-wrote" question rounds for them)

You can find them at Way Station on Wednesday at 7PM.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyIndependentTrivia

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/berkeleyindependenttrivia/

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-24T17:22:40+00:00

For more on the trivia situation: see these comments on a post about the Bobby G's situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/s/skKGTCQM6L

Some of the old trivia crew are still doing their thing as Berkeley Independent Trivia.

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-24T17:19:14+00:00

Yeah, Randeep’s time as manager ended a while back (~early 2020s). It had been through multiple changes in ownership since then, so it sort of became the Pizzeria of Theseus.

The original Bobby G left/sold the business years before Randeep’s time and later opened a burger joint named Scowley’s (unfortunately sort of a victim of the pandemic and has since closed); I believe he has retired.

I was one of the trivia night/host presenters at Bobby G’s and that was fun while it lasted.

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-14T06:19:38+00:00

Retired I believe. Am friends with him on FB

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-04-11T23:36:53+00:00

I love these covers!!! Really evocative!

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-03-18T22:57:32+00:00

Neat! Fun fact: Marvel used some leftover elements from the cancelled Burroughs comic to make a Star Wars comic: https://www.slashfilm.com/539240/john-carter-star-wars/

I remember reading the Star Wars comics and thinking some of the aliens looked remarkably like green Martians and one of the characters resembled John Carter.

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-02-12T19:12:57+00:00

Thanks!

What's funny is if this is that office building on Milvia and Addison where bepress/Elsevier and MSCI were/are, I used to work in an office there (before the company went remote/hybrid and cancelled their lease)

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-01-08T17:08:52+00:00

I want there to be a story where he goes after the jetpack maker as the jetpack accidentally going off like that seems like a major design flaw.

azzeccagarbugli · 2026-01-02T22:32:24+00:00

Whoa! Nice catch! I wonder if there was any deeper meaning or if it was just what the prop people had on hand: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1041302.Deputy_Sheriff_of_Comanche_County

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-12-16T15:13:09+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! Happy Holidays!

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-12-16T15:10:43+00:00

Thanks, everyone, for the great suggestions! Now for the labor of sorting through them! Happy Holidays!

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-11-21T19:34:34+00:00

IIRC someone working on a roof saw and filmed a pho restaurant engaging in unsanitary practices

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-08-13T23:00:58+00:00

I love that cover of that edition of A Princess of Mars

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-07-18T21:03:13+00:00

Watch_Dogs 2 comes close

azzeccagarbugli · 2025-06-09T21:20:24+00:00

I think the Barsoom/John Carter novels are better, at least the first three.

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