Posts Tagged ‘brains’

Today In PR For Ladies: Cougars, Oil Spills, and Permanent SATC2 Nerve Damage

PR flacks sure know how to sell to the ladies. Every week, I receive form e-mails from them containing the latest in lady-centered information—on everything from permanent Sex and the City nerve damage to the world's preeminent male cougar experts. Alas, I don't always have enough time to pass these insights onto you, the ladies. [...]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Plenty Courtly, But Where are the Fucking Zombies?

In this week's paper, I reviewed Seth Grahame-Smith's foray into undead Jane Austen adaptation, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies:
With his first novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith invents a genre: In an undead Jane Austen adaptation, there must be brains, and there must be braaaaains. Unfortunately, Grahame-Smith is already breaking the rules.
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