Sherlock Holmes

Full of ideas.

I have always been full of ideas.  When I was at HCC, I believed it was not a smart move for the campus (the commissary) to shut-down in the afternoon.  Why not stay open for students to stay on campus, work, study, buy food, and feel a part of the school?  There was never enough involvement or involving of the students.  It was run as a commuter campus, shuttle students on and off atmosphere.  There was money to be made, let alone memories.

Naturally when I started going to Thespis Society meetings, I had ideas.  One of them being t-shirts.  I created, designed, and had t-shirts made for the Thespis Society members.  It was a way of advertising to other students if they did not know there was such a thing as the Thespis Society on campus.  It was a way of creating involvement.

David Wolfe had to butt in on my idea.  Pun intended.  Because he wanted long-sleeves with a mock-turtle neck, and I thought short-sleeved t-shirts were enough.  He went with me to the t-shirt printing place.  I did the research, calculated the costs, I found the place that could screen the t-shirts from my design.  I did everything, and David wanted in on it.

When David and I went to the screen printing shop, the man told me they could also embroider the shirts.  Another idea.  There were positions in the Thespis Society, President, Vice-President, and Treasurer.  Why not have the students who held those positions names and positions embroidered on the shirts?

Because David butted in, I did not dismiss his idea, I put it to a vote.  I asked the rest of the Thespis Society to vote on what they wanted.  The vote was for both short-sleeved t-shirts and mock turtleneck long-sleeved shirts.

Was it David’s idea for the t-shirts or was someone talking through David?

In designing the t-shirts, I decided black was to be the color because this was theater, not television or film.  I wanted an iconic image for the Thespis Society.  What is more iconic in theater than Shakespeare?  Does anyone remember Sir Ian McKellen on BBC America’s Graham Norton Show speaking about the English deaf sign for Shakespeare?  I remember.  What is the most iconic Shakespearean play?  Hamlet.  How many Shakespeare plays can you name?  Everyone knows Hamlet.

At our home the office was in the garage, there was a drafting table, multiple desks, and assorted pens, pencils, many varieties of paint, all kinds of things.  I took the Japanese calligraphy pen and started drawing.  I had in mind the scene from Hamlet where he is holding the skull it is the quintessential Shakespearean moment.  It is everything that is Shakespeare in that scene.

There were only a few drawings before I drew the skull and crossed scrolls underneath the skull that were used on the t-shirts.  The skull happened to be facing left.

Now, do you wonder why I told you that story to tell you about Sherlock Holmes?  Puzzle pieces.  In the episode between John Watson and Irene Adler in A Scandal in Bohemia.

Irene = I, Rene, David Wolfe at least once at The Container Store.  Is this why there were t-shirts as part of the uniform at The Container Store?  Irene Adler = AI.  Artificial Intelligence. IA = the abbreviation for Iowa, “if you build it they will come” Field of Dreams.

John Watson, Jon is my brother’s (who is gay) middle name.  My brother was used to get access to me, my whereabouts, my likes and dislikes, so you see the line from the show, Irene Adler says, I know what she likes.

The heavy-set woman who brings John Watson to Irene Adler is me from another time in my life.

Bohemia, La Boheme, the opera, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, on and on.

The naked scene between Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes is me, Sherlock Holmes is me.  People were uncertain I knew where to look.  I did.  This is “my jaw doesn’t come unhinged”, he was a real man.

It is nearly every man’s fantasy of a woman beauty and brains to match, Irene Adler.

Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes where Mycroft is overweight, Mycroft is me from another time in my life.

To be clear, I was not a binge eater.  Here is another reason why I am denied access to food and water at work.  When I was overweight, I would go hours and hours without eating, sometimes I would go a whole day from five in the morning until nearly ten at night before I had eaten anything.  My metabolism got way screwed up.  Along with other things.

When I did my head work to go on my diet, one thing I did was to prepare and plan my food it’s a brain thing.  I had it planned, it made way in my head for other things.

“Tell him you’re not dead” is about my t-shirt design, the skull.  It is about David, and acting, performing, and singing.

I auditioned for Southern Methodist University at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida on Turkey Lake road for their acting program.  I was the last person of the day to audition.  I saw it in his eyes as soon as he looked at me, I was not going to be invited to the school.  It was recorded.  I looked at the camera while auditioning a monologue, he asked me to sing something I had not been prepared to do.  I sang a Christmas carol of some kind.  I was so depressed by it I went to Blockbuster on the way home and rented movies.

I doubt the man was from the University that is the reason for my depressive response.  Because I could not understand exactly who this man was.

There are only so many times you can audition, not book the jobs, and continue.  To be clear, I have never been hired, nor been under any understanding that I was hired to act or perform since 2012.

I could go on and on and on.  It is difficult to dissect these pieces that I understand.  I dissect them so that they can be understood by those who are reading.

This dissecting is like working in a room, then having to write an exact play by play of every moment.  It doesn’t work that way in real life.  Talk about time-consuming.

I knew and was aware while sitting at the Starbucks café in Barnes and Noble that my conversation was being listening in upon.  I was not aware that my friend was partially in on it at the time.  I repeatedly remarked about how much I liked The Scandal in Bohemia episode of Sherlock.  I liked the episode without having to think about it.  Probably because of brainwaves about the script.

Drake – was probably the supervisor at the time, or it could have been edited into my version to keep me from wanting to write about Benedict.  And, nothing more.  It is extraordinarily gracious of Benedict Cumberbatch – BC – to create such a character and show, as well as, the creators and writers and so on.  Basing a character from my weight loss.

Most likely this is only a small portion of everything that is there.

On and on, and on and on.