All Entries in the "Vignettes" Category
A Propos of Nothing
Scene: A grocery store in Southern Ontario
OM: Excuse me, where do you keep the tahini?
Adolescent Stock Boy: The tzatziki?
OM: No, tahini. It’s a sesame street paste.
ASB: Sesame Street?
OM: Yes, sesame street.
ASB: [obviously wondering if Miss Mussel is suffering from some sort of mental defect]
OM: Oh no! Wait. I meant sesame seed.
ASB: Sesame seed…oh, [...]
Sunday Evening at the Theatre: The Interview
The Omniscient Mussel Theatre is proud to present a fabulous one act play provisionally entitled The Interview.
Dramatis personae
Distinguished Professor - a well known expert on Shostakovich and, as it turns out, semiotics.
Somewhat Younger Professor - a quintessentially British academic, stammering, fumbling, hair constantly falling in the eyes, razor sharp wit.
Miss Mussel - PhD candidate, forthright [...]
Idiocy and the Border Patrol
The Rambler is spot on. The US Border guards are the most “inappropriately incompetent, lazy, smugly authoritarian individuals” Miss Mussel has ever encountered too. She has also been through Heathrow. And Luton. The Niagara border patrol people are definitely on the OM black list. When shopping around for Master’s programs some years ago, [...]
Carilloneuse
A lovely surprise in the OM mailbox today: a note from Jonathan Bellman relating his experience with the carillon. As stated in the About page, Miss Mussel is a bit of a carilloneuse herself although nowhere near what one would call accomplished.
This was the most entertaining bit of Jonathan’s post:
Does Norm know how [...]
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