Beelzebub and Mickey Devil wait inside for me

So... adaptations of, sequels to or improvements on classic literature are always a mistake, right ?

Something which is completely genre-defying is going to be a disaster, right ?

On the radio this morning I heard about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!.

I want to hate it. I really do. But the author - interviewed on the Today programmer, for his sins - somehow managed to sound so endearing that it's actually made me want to read it. He described carefully reading "one of the most expertly plotted novels" in order to insert sequences of "gratuitous gore and zombie mayhem". He sounds like he has a huge respect for Austen (the finished work is "about 85% Austen"), and as if he had a real sense of humour about the whole thing. He agreed it was not an extensible idea, and promised not to go on to do Sense and Sensibility and Werewolves.

Help. Someone convince me that this book is going to suck before I have to deal with the disappointment.

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

The beer I had for breakfast was a bottle of Mad Dog

Sitting down with my tuna, vegetable and noodle stir-fry I thought I'd rescue one of those bottles of lager languishing in the fridge after Frances' party. There turned out only to be two left - a bottle of Stella, and a bottle of Brahma.

I don't really like Stella. The other, however, was an unknown quantity so I gave it a whirl.

I can now report that Brahma, which claims to be Brazilian, is flippin' disgusting. It tastes of practically nothing yet still manages to be even nastier than Budweiser.

That'll teach me to filch my housemate's beer :(

(Not relevantly: when I was little, my next door neighbour used occasionally to refer to someone as "a proper Brahma" (probably not spelled like that). It was used in a similar context to that in which people say "you are a one" or "you're a right one". Anyone else familiar with this ? Neighbour was from Darlington via Yorkshire...)