Is this movie an accurate depiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary invention? That depends.Robert Downey, Jr. does a bang-up job of portraying the Holmes of the books - mania, depression, and all. A man who can fight as well as reason, and is tenacious once the game is afoot.
If you are a fan of the Sherlock Holmes of the books, then yes. If you are a fan of the Hollywood version of the detective -- then no.
This is going to come as a shock to some folks, but Basil Rathbone was a lousy Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur penned a Sherlock Holmes who was a young man -- probably in his late twenties, but no older than mid-30's -- who was a genius, yes, but also manic-depressive.
In "A Study In Scarlet", Sir Arthur -- through Dr. Watson -- described how Holmes would be seized by melancholia and would lie upon his sofa, in the dark, for days without speaking or moving; in other stories, Holmes would be "seized by an intensity" and go for days without eating or sleeping, until he fainted.
He is -- as written by Doyle -- an eccentric, who kept his unanswered mail nailed to the mantel with a pen-knife; his tobacco stored in the toe of a shoe; and his cigars in a coal-bin.
He is an addict, who self-medicates his depression with a 7% solution of IV cocaine, with occasional forays into morphia use.
The area under the awning is an enclosed porch. Here it is from the inside.
The solid door in the upper picture is the door leading into the actual house. It comes out in the living room.
The living room. The front door is to the left, just out of the picture. The door straight ahead is looking into the bedroom, and the archway to the right leads to the hallway, with the door on the right leading to the second bedroom (which will be the study).
Looking into the living room from the bedroom. Guess what I've been doing!
The bedroom. The door in the picture leads to the bathroom, which is shared between the bedroom and the study.
The study, looking into the hallway from the bathroom door.
The bathroom, from the bedroom. The door in the picture leads to the study.
And the bathroom from the study.
Here's the little "hallway." The kitchen is to the right, the study to the left. You can just see the back door through the kitchen door.
Looking into the kitchen.
And out from the kitchen.
Here's a closeup of the fence. It looks very picturesque, but it's also starting to come apart in places, so I'm going to have to replace it soon - probably in sections. That little rock wall runs all the way from the street to the carport along the property line, and there are some wild strawberry plants growing in places along the top!
Looking back at the house from the carport.Gee, it's almost like government interference unbalances the free market or something.While most dealers are grateful for the boost, they're paying for it now with fewer customers. The government rebates drew people into the market who otherwise would have kept driving their clunkers due to uncertainty over the sputtering economy. Those customers might have made their purchases later in the year.
"It was good while it lasted," said Phil Warren, sales manager at Toyota Direct in Columbus, Ohio. "Now we're a little bit concerned about what happens next. The program may have just taken a lot of people out of the market."
Making matters worse, many dealers depleted their stocks with clunker sales, and automakers have been slow to ramp up production to replenish the lots. Grahl says Ford has built the cars he ordered but mysteriously hasn't shipped them. So the selection isn't very good for people who do want to buy.
As a result, U.S. sales of cars and light trucks rose to 1.3 million in August, a roughly 30 percent increase from July. But now that the clunkers program is over, industry analysts expect poor September sales, even lower than the July rate.
Kesel, like many dealers, still hasn't been paid for most of his clunker sales.
"Most dealers are in a cash-flow crunch because of the federal government not paying up on this," he said.
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A Disclose Gunfire(h/t to Robb Allen)
A Discoursing Feel
A Fluoresced Gin Is (good to drink?)
A Diligences For Us
A Regicide Fun Loss
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A Coifed Sirens Lug
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From the webcomic DMFA (scroll down to the "Rant O' Update").
" I am not even sure where Sunday went. Last thing I remember was Nyquil and then it was Tuesday."
| You are a Social Liberal (83% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (78% permissive) You are best described as a:
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Look, when I'm ordering a rare filet, I don't want to taste the special herbs in which you've coated it, I don't want to taste your chef's magic marinade or spices, I don't want to taste that it's been nearly pickled in butter... I want to taste still-twitching dead cow.I'll have to see about the Charles Schumer thing for next year.
