Charms

Recent web nuggets, literary and otherwise:

• Those nauseating Anchor Family ads are now on YouTube. Thanks for telling us Spare Room. Part of NZ culture.
  
• Dan Rhodes's top 10 short books - Was happy to see a list from my favourite writer appear on The Guardian. He is just so clever and appealing, check this out:
  "The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich" - His name makes him sound like a range of cardigans, but Cornell Woolrich was in fact a writer of highly-wrought suspense fiction, this one being a fine example. In his 1948 book Rendezvous In Black, the main character is called Johnny Marr, and at one point he has a fight with a man called Morrissey. A must-read for Smiths fans."
  Dan IS the man.
  
• Works like a charm- Jonathan Franzen's is a squeaky chair, Jane Smiley's a hot bath, Douglas Coupland's chocolate chips ... writers reveal what gets their creative juices flowing.
  
• Keats biopic should be Romantic, not romanticised - I'm worried that Jane Campion's Keats biopic will play up to the sickly stereotypes of the garret-dwelling poet.
  
• Race to Size Zero - yup they all want to be pins.
  
• Cole retains his British cool - had to search on Lloyd Cole after seeing him live at Al's Bar.
  
• How to make a good comeback - Tim de Lisle
  "The answer, my friend, isn't always blowing in the wind. Sometimes it's on another record. In 1984, the fey Glasgow-based indie guitar band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions released a song called Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken? Twenty-two years later, the fey Glasgow-based indie guitar band Camera Obscura have released a single called Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken. It hasn't made the charts, but it has been played 100,000 times on Camera Obscura's MySpace page. It's a suitable fate for Lloyd Cole, who couldn't write a song in his youth without mentioning one of his heroes ("read Norman Mailer/or get a new tailor"), and it's a fine song in its own right, with a chorus like an ice cream on a hot day."

Newest Petites:
"Dainty Biscuit" and "Care free tee", plus limited edition "Lavender Love"

bro'Town

bro'Town is now online

love the t-shirts

I've got the Peyow Peyow
but could easily expand my collection and get the Not even ow featuring Jeff the Maori
and I'm going to the pub ... I may be some time

coming soon
Asians are cool
God is good
and I love you son

Reality TV

Courtesy of "Web Pages that Suck"
The news that watchers of "The Apprentice" will be stoked to hear

Omarosa is not only online with the most ego-riddled site ever, but she is going on Fear Factor -
as a way of facing her fear of swimming since nearly drowning in a pool. Yeah right.