R was a Railway Rug's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=R was a Railway Rug2009-05-29T21:19:16ZPride and Prejudice and Zombies (review)http://everything2.com/user/R+was+a+Railway+Rug/writeups/Pride+and+Prejudice+and+ZombiesR was a Railway Rughttp://everything2.com/user/R+was+a+Railway+Rug2009-05-29T21:19:16Z2009-05-29T21:19:16Z<p><i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</i> is, well, just that. The classic <a href="/title/Regency">Regency</a> drama is liberally sprinkled with blood-thirsty <a href="/title/zombie">zombie</a> horror in a monster-lit mash-up. It's the first novel of Seth Grahame-Smith, recently published in April '09. Letting <a href="/title/brain-eating+zombies">brain-eating zombies</a> loose through 19th century <a href="/title/English+countryside">English countryside</a> does <i>sound</i> like a great idea at first, but once you get over the novelty of it all, the book somewhat loses its appeal. The actual plot of <i>PPZ</i> is faithful to the <a href="/title/Jane+Austen">Austen</a> original (she's credited as the co-author), where Elizabeth is rather far-fetchedly (even for a Regency zombie novel) a <a href="/title/ninja">ninja</a>, of sorts. Obviously it's best to have actually read <a href="/title/Pride+and+Prejudice">Pride and Prejudice</a> <i>before</i> this book, to give it some perspective, which is shamefully not the order that this noder has done things in. <p>If you're a lazy reader, yet interested, don't worry: there is already a film in the pipeline, and you certainly embody its <a href="/title/target+audience">target audience</a>.</p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>blink (idea)http://everything2.com/user/R+was+a+Railway+Rug/writeups/blinkR was a Railway Rughttp://everything2.com/user/R+was+a+Railway+Rug2009-05-29T01:18:37Z2009-05-29T01:18:37Z<p><a href="/title/Blinking">Blinking</a> happens so much we forget about it. It's like <a href="/title/the+Hum">the Hum</a> of a nearby fridge. Occasionally, in between blinks, I might slip in a 'double <a href="/title/wink">wink</a>' without anything seeming amiss. As a wink is half of a voluntary blink, a 'double wink' would be the left and right eye winking at the same time. Perhaps it'd be better understood as a deliberate blink. Whatever this should be called, I'd like to bring it some way into the general consciousness: it looks just like a blink, but actually it's whoever's behind the eyes regressing momentarily. Let me explain.</p>
<p>Picture the scene: you're mindlessly out and about when suddenly you come across, oh I don't know, a darling little <a href="/title/squirrel">squirrel</a> on the <a href="/title/pavement">pavement</a> eating some nuts. Or maybe a <a href="/title/gross">gross</a> little <a href="/title/splattered+squirrel">splattered squirrel</a> in the <a href="/title/road">road</a>. You pause and you think, damn, if only I had my camera. You can't do much but walk on by.</p>
<p>This would be a waste, if it were not for the option to regress unashamedly and <a href="/title/pretend+that+you%2527re+a+camera">pretend that you're a camera</a>. Imagine that<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…