Ad makes me want to "spruce up [my] Aphrodite"

A British ad urging women to "mow the law" (think *very* personal grooming put to an upbeat song and dance) is supposedly causing a stir in the States. I'm not sure if it's the super-tame U.S. version that's causing a stir, or if the peppy and much more pointed UK version got an airing that was too hot for American screens. I live in the UK and never saw either ad before they caught the attention of The Daily Beast.

The UK ad sure is effective; it not only made me laugh, it also made me want to do a little trimming with a Quattro razor, even though I've got plenty of disposables in ladylike pink already. Unfortunately I don't have the skill to do any heart-shaped "topiary" like the lass in the ad.

Here's the tepid U.S. version. Check out the infinitely more fun (and more naughty) UK version below:

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Simpsons take a licking from USPS

How much do I love the new Simpsons stamps? So much that I'm actually thinking about getting a stamp-collecting book for the first time since I was 10.

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Pride and Prejudice gets zombie treatment

I'm not big on zombie flicks (much to my husband's dismay), but I might have to check out the upcoming film that merges Zombies with Pride and Prejudice. Natalie Portman is set to star, so this sounds like a major-budget film. The classic opening line of P&P will now go like this (according to an article in the Times):

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

And the storyline will remain largely true to the original tale -- with a few little twists:

While much of the original novel remains — perhaps about 85% — Grahame-Smith, who has written five previous books, including How to Survive a Horror Movie, has taken liberties. The Bennet family still has five marriageable daughters, but we know we are in a terribly different, though somehow disconcertingly familiar, world when we learn that in the zombie-infested England of those times: “The business of Mr Bennet’s life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs Bennet’s was to get them married.” All five Bennet girls have been taken to Shaolin, in China, by their father to be trained in the deadly arts of zombie-killing by the Chinese master Liu.

Urm, on closer inspection of the article, there is set to be some gross stuff in the film, and I REALLY hate gross stuff. Might give this a pass after all, but for those who can stomach it, it may be the most unique re visioning of Jane Austen yet.

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