Archive for December, 2007
Review: Nutcracker/Ballet Jorgen at the Centre In The Square
In today’s Record
For those used to attending orchestra or choir performances at the Centre In the Square, the sight on Friday evening was a bit of a shock. The lobby was, rather unusually, full of hundreds of small girls in their best party dresses, proudly crouching primary coloured booster seats in anticipation of the annual [...]
Six Geese-a-Laying
“The Streeb-Greeblings for some genetic reasons have been blessed with fourteen toes, so obviously having one missing here or there doesn’t make a blime bit of difference. In fact it probably saved me a fortune in later years as I was going to have it done cosmetically on the National Health. So really a [...]
Five Gold Rings
“I was chatting to a couple of blondes and Hitler drifted over with the sausage rolls and asked me to run in the Olympics.”
Day 1, 2, 3, 4
Four Calling Birds
“Well, a lot of things in nature are unlikely. Who could imagine a animal called a prottle made entirely of curtain rings?”
Day 1, 2, 3
Three French Hens
“The nightlife in Brussels is very similar to the day life..but..uh… a bit darker and nothing’s open.”
Day 1, 2,
End of Year Ephemera
Scrabulous. No longer just for Facebook. Now you can while away the hours playing Scrabble with friends, strangers or the Internet itself. The best part is that the lost hours aren’t wasted but merely part of lifelong program designed to keep the brain limber. It’s educational and therefore guilt free. [...]
Christmas Tallysheet
Others have reported on the treasures they received on the Big Day, so, in aid of not being left in the dust by her fellow bloggers, Miss Mussel is happy to report that she has acquired the following:
both of which should come in handy for this whole writing for a living gig. Maybe not [...]
Two Turtle Doves
Day 1
Oscar Peterson 1925-2007: Obits and Tributes List
Here’s what the press is saying.
Obituaries
The Globe and Mail
New York Times
Associated Press
The Guardian
Reuters
Tributes
The Guardian– leave your own memories and tributes
The Overgrown Path–an interesting juxtaposition of Stockhausen and Peterson
John Fordham in the Guardian on how he came to love Oscar
In Praise Of Oscar Peterson in the Guardian
The Star’s Peter Goddard on the private side of Peterson
Terry [...]
