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Spent a lovely weekend in Santa Barbara with friends from college; highlights involved, alliteratively, syrah, squid, salmiak, and the new Sherlock Holmes movie. We established that salmiak is even manlier than black licorice. The Holmes movie was clearly made by someone who enjoyed digital colour control and steampunk. I found the emphasis on engagement rings anachronistic. In nineteenth-century terms, isn't a gentlewoman who goes to a restaurant with a man & his male roommate, and then bails said man out of jail, clearly either engaged or ungentle (likely both)? Or am I conflating Sense and Sensibility with the rough-and-tumble 1880s?