The Curious Tumblr Of Joe Riggs

Friends this was truly the most entertaining interviewI’ve ever been a part of. We quickly fell in and out of a more conversational format allowing for a plethora of verbal side stepping and witty banter. You’ll see straight away from the title of the interview, something is afoot…

We wound up chatting for countless hours. Soon after the lovely ladies over at The Petrels Of Crime went through what must have been the fascinating process of dissecting hours of rapid fire subject changing to determine the best snippets to include in this write up they’ve done.

Enjoy… 

What they had to say:

“Let me just start this article off by stating straight out that this was by far the coolest and most engaging, yet delightfully spontaneous conversation I’ve had in a very long time.  I really wasn’t sure what to expect with it, but as it turned out, we hit it off phenomenally well and ended up talking for something like seven hours. (We cut the call at about 4:00 in the morning.)  HamishMD was able to join us for part of this one, such that the first thing I heard when I opened up the recording was a tidal wave of raucous three-way laughter.  Yeah.  You know it must have been good when everyone was laughing hysterically right from the beginning.  It was deeply refreshing and an awful lot of fun.  It’d been a really long time since I’d laughed that hard, or that much.”

Click below to read the full interview:

‘Nasal Rathbone’ Meets ‘Nostrildamus’ ~ Interview with Joe Riggs – 9/7/2012 « The Stormy Petrels.

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Joe’s book (raising funds for Save Undershaw) ‘The Real Sherlock Holmes’ is available at all good bookstores including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and in all formats including Amazon Kindle and now on the iPad too. Fans outside the US and UK can get free delivery from Book Depository

That’s right friends it’s time for the second live “Mentalism & Deduction” web event! For those of you who were able to attend my first live web event you’ll know that it went down splendidly and was a special experience not easy forgotten. I held it at the end of this years Sherlock Holmes Week as a way to wrap up the weeks festivities with a bang, and that we did!

Last time I released a cryptic riddle two weeks before the event and the first person to solve that riddle got to go live with me during the event and take part in a very special one-on-one experiment. The results could not have been better, Ms. Laura Anderson went live with me and the results were astonishing for all that witnessed it. Well, we are doing it again the same way, here are the facts:

This Sunday, October 7th I will be posting another slightly complicated riddle to be solved on my public Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ILikeJoeRiggs. Only this time the first TWO people to solve this will be going live with me during the event to take part in a very unusual Mentalism & Deduction experiment. The riddle will pertain to the Save Undershaw movement in some way, shape or form. That is the only clue you get so keep your eyes on my Facebook page this coming Sunday…

Also, just like last time I intend to bring my friends at Sherlockology and The Baker Street Babes into this as ‘guardians’ so to speak of a prediction I will be making before the event, we did this last time and I can only hope for the results to be as epic as they were the first time around. I will be using every ounce of my knowledge and abilities to make this happen. I will be posting more details about the prediction as they unfold.

During the event I will be sharing some of my core methods and techniques with the viewers, answering questions andof course executing a couple demonstrations as mentioned earlier. The focus of this event will be straightforward Deduction, The Mind Palace & The Undershaw Preservation Trust.

The link to the live webcast is: http://www.vokle.com/events/76857-joe-riggs-live-mentalism-and-deduction-webcast. Feel free to head on over that and click ‘join’ to RSVP if you so desire.

Volke emailed me yesterday to tell me that I’ve been chosen as a “Staff Pick” due to the last events success. This time they will be promoting the event themselves and airing commercials for it from now up until the event goes live. We are all expecting a pretty big turnout, so mark your calenders, lock the kids in the closet and grab the computer Sunday the 14th.

I’ll post more details as I get them, keep your eyes on my Facebook page this Sunday for the cryptic riddle and I hope to see each and every one of you present Sunday, October 14th for an experience that will be fun, educational and hopefully… jaw dropping.

-Joe Riggs

 “Come at once if convenient – if inconvenient come all the same” -Sherlock Holmes

Sunday August 5th, the last day of Sherlock Holmes Week, let’s have some fun…

That’s right friends, we will be bringing Sherlock Holmes Week to a close with some live Mentalism & Sherlockian fun! This event is open to everyone who would like to attend. I will be on video interacting with you via an open chat window visible to everyone. Whether you’re coming to interact or just watch the fun, by all means do stop by and tell your friends about it!

As many of you know from my original blog post here, I’ve sent two separate “predictions” out; one toSherlockology and the other, a strange phrase, to The Baker Street Babes. If everything goes well, this will all culminate in an amazing tapestry of events during the webcast that should be amazing and interactive for everyone. Special guests Luke Kuhns & Elena Kitzantides will also be present, helping to choose questions and moderate, etc.The theme is, of course, Sherlock Holmes Week. The purposes are: to have some fun, answer your burning questions, and to raise awareness for The Undershaw Preservation Trust.

Winner of the “Cryptic Riddle Contest,” Laura Anderson, will of course be in attendence and will be going live on video with me toward the end of the webcast for the second and final experiment.

She, nor either of the groups that have been sent aforementioned “predictions” have any clue about what exactly I will be trying to do. This is as it should be. What’s a Sherlock Holmes event without a little mystery?

The event will be hosted by Vokle and users can attend on my blog by visiting the “Webcast Event”  page at the top…

Here’s the first look at the amazing four-page-spread “The Baker Street Chronicle” gave my Memory Palace (aka Mind Palace) articles in the new “‘SHERLOCK’ Special Edition!” I’m very honored with what the BSC team has done with my work. From the layout, to the graphics, not to mention the content; this magazine is truly a Sherlockian collector’s item. Thank you so much to everyone at the BSC for all your hard work!

MORE pages, more stuff, more information on SHERLOCK!

Newly added more details on the 221b Baker Street flat!

Newly added “Three patch problems”!

“The Memory Palace” by Joe Riggs! 48 pages, partly coloured, tabloid format!

Price/each: 11,50 EUR / 15.00 USD / 9,50 GBP !! including: postage and packaging, delivered by air, worldwide !!

I am very proud to announce that after 48 hours of brainstorming, reading and re-reading the riddles, we have a winner! Over 300 people submitted their brilliant guesses and explanations behind them. However, in the end, only two people named the correct person and properly deconstructed the cryptic questions. Thanks to everyone who submitted answers. You guys are amazing!

Elena (@ElenaKSays) and I both worked hard on these puzzles to ensure that they were both difficult and possible. We put an enormous amount of thought into every line, word and phrase. The breakdown of the riddle and the explanation of the answer will likely surprise many. Yet, we must give credit where it is due…

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Saturday 4th August, 12:00 noon UK Time, London: The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate III. Audience places open to fans all around the world.

This time the global panel of experts will debate which of the original Sherlock Holmes stories is the best, and we’ll also have a Masterclass in Deduction presentation from none other than Joe Riggs (aka ‘The Real Sherlock Holmes’).

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Looking forward to it! Preparing some interesting things… -Joe Riggs

Over 200+ answers have now been received; most of which have brilliant reasons behind them, yet none completely fit the riddle/contest. Based on the most popular answers, and the areas with which people are having the most difficulty, we’ve carefully crafted the second riddle to be just as cryptic, yet to point the super sleuths out there in the proper direction. I’ve just posted it in the comments section of the original post on my Facebook fan page here: www.facebook.com/ilikejoeriggs

Sherlock Holmes Week just keeps getting better…

Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget
(I feel Ray looks exactly like this)

Friends I am very happy to be able to announce that in honor of Undershaw and Conan Doyle the illustrious and endlessly witty Ray Wilcockson, a brilliant former English teacher, writer, blogger and fierce Sherlock Holmes fan will be making a very special guest blog appearance right here during Sherlock Holmes Week! Ray will be my first ever guest blogger and just today he announced on his blog ‘Altamarkings‘ what he will be writing about.

He begins “It is half a century since I wrote a history project about the London of Sherlock Holmes. Much as I enjoyed reading the Canon as a schoolboy, an appreciation of Sir  Arthur Conan Doyle’s pre-eminence as one of English Literature’s greatest short story writers has dawned on me only now, in 2012″

He later goes on to reveal “I am currently working on ‘The Final Problem’, which I consider the most complex, sophisticated and revealing of all 56 short Holmes stories. This involves a consideration of Doyle’s presentation of Professor Moriarty and I feel this section of my forthcoming posts on ‘The Final Problem’ will illustrate Conan Doyle’s consummate craftsmanship as a short story writer and provide a fitting contribution to Joe’s blog and this worthy campaign.”

 To read the full post with all the details from Ray please visit:

http://altamarkings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/markings-to-guest-blog-on-world-of-joe.html

Stay tuned for this, I know whatever he writes is going to be excellent!

With two weeks left to Sherlock Holmes Week its time to release information on a very special live event and contest I’ve been asked to run. I’ve been contemplating this for awhile now and things are starting to get pretty exciting!

Following the revealing interview with Ross K Foad (here) a few weeks ago, I’ve been inundated with friends and fans around the world asking if I’d be prepared to do a similar live event with them. At the same time I’ve just become an ambassador for theUndershaw Preservation Trust. Seems like combining the two is perfect…

So yes, here we go! Stay with me because quite a few things are going to be happening at once to make this event the most fun it can be for all of you.

Firstly within the next 24 hours I will be mailing a special package to Emma and Leif at Sherlockology. This will be a major prediction for the live event. They will be guarding this package and are even talking about streaming the package live everyday until the event. In either case it will be far from my hands and safe in London.

To keep things above board and as fair as possible I will also be sending a curious ‘phrase’ to Curly from The Baker Street Babes. She has agreed to keep this phrase an absolute secret and to only reveal it during the coming event. That’s Sherlockology and The Baker Street Babes keeping me honest. Now let’s find out what all of this is for, shall we?

In honor of Sherlock Holmes Week and the Undershaw Preservation Trust I will be taking part in a live webcast event. I will be live on video answering your questions and talking about what it is I do and shedding some light on various subjects. During the webcast I’m going to be attempting two very exciting feats. You won’t want to miss these demonstrations! The details are as follows:

One week from today I’ll post a VERY cryptic question about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Home, Undershaw, on myFacebook page and the first person who answers it correctly will get to go ‘live’ with me at the end of the webcast for a very personal and hopefully amazing Mentalism & Deduction experiment for all to see. The winner will have nothing embarrassing take place or be used. If you haven’t joined my Facebook page already do so now and keep an eye out for the cryptic question to come.

The other demonstration I mentioned will involve randomly selected people from the chat window during thwebcast event. The special package sent to Sherlockology and the curious phrase sent to The Baker Street Babes will both come into play and while I can never be 100% positive of how things will turn out, I’ve got a very good feeling that you’ll want to see what all of this will culminate into!

The rules are simple, if you haven’t already then like my Facebook page to keep an eye out for the cryptic question next week. Also it wouldn’t hurt to clue up on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former home Undershaw. The question could be about the house, the people Conan Doyle entertained there (like Bram Stoker for example) or the recent court case fight to stop developers destroying the house. If you wish to take part and solve this, make sure you are prepared to join me on the webcast for some harmless fun, I promise. Read more…