Doctor Obolensky's Page

Just in time for Halloween:

The Skull of Rumors!

The poor unfortunate spirit bound to this skull was something of a busybody, spreading false(?) rumors about people it has encountered.

Clicking on the skull will cause it to provide a single one of it's repertoire of juicy gossip.

The spirit was someth… Continue

Todays Girl Genius page.

Persons from the future! The link above will not direct you to the correct page....you must navigate backwards until the date corresponds to one near the date I write this message!

I was reading some of the Holmes short stories again, having had a bit more free time now that my contract expired, and I find myself short of a job yet again.

Often I pull words out of some of the stories, that I'm not quite sure of, such as billycock or some other bit of verbage that has gone out of use. Now I had never looked up dog-cart before, as it was rather obvious from how it was used, that it was a horse-drawn carriage of some sort. But, more curious than usual today, I looked it up.… Continue