Wunnerful, Wunnerful
This wasn’t one of the things listed on the Seven Things meme from yesterday, but to continue on with sharing facts of a random or weird nature, Miss Mussel feels compelled to reveal that she is a fan of Lawrence…
Category: This & That
Meme Fever
A new strain of meme seems to be circulating through our corner of the blogosphere. Most people claim that they hate doing them and are only participating because otherwise their referrers might think that they are now in the doghouse…
Tanglewood 2009 Season Highlights
The first snowfall has made idyllic hours whiled away on the lawn with a picnic and great music seem like a bit of a pipe dream. Nevertheless, shows are being planned, artists booked and marketing machines are gathering steam for…
Christmas The Hamburger Way
Last year Miss Mussel didn’t get around to Christmas shopping until three days before. This year, she appears to have morphed into one of those super cheery early adopters. Lists have been made, plans are in action, items are in…
Tis The Season For A Commercial
Hello rabid OM fans and those that have drifted in via Google! The OM Marketing Department has decided to buy some airtime on the internet to get its message of Christmas cheer out to as many people as possible. Basically,…
TechTalk: Opening Pandora’s Box
Miss Mussel’s alter ego dabbles in web design as part of her ‘bits of this and that” freelance career and has suggested for some time that she share some of her knowledge with OM readers. In the interests of starting…
Boo etc
So, today is that most hallowed of we’ens, a time when we all forget that we are no longer children and turn dressing up into a competitive sport. In honour of this day, Miss Mussel has done some late night…
Clint Eastwood: Cowboy, Cop, Composer
From the Bureau of Breaking News That Everyone Probably Knows Already: Clint Eastwood composes the scores for some of his films. Who knew? According to teh intertubes, Eastwood began writing music for his own films as early as 1980, penning…
A Match Made In Heaven
The photograph would be less horrific if Miss Mussel’s computer had a viewfinder and her landlord had finished the kitchen repairs, but you should get the gist of what went down this afternoon. In case you don’t recognize it, the…
Margaret Atwood: In Defence Of The Arts
We’re having a bit of a to do up here in Northern North America in regards to our Prime Minister deciding that ordinary people don’t really care about the arts. The argument is tired but it does get pulled out…
Quiz #25 Left, Right, Left
This week, Miss Mussel had lined up a treat for those of you with computers hooked up to floor-rumbling speakers. Unfortunately, the only recording she could find was so hideous that a change in plans was the only option. Perhaps…
What’s Your Beethoven Number?
Psychologists have innumerable tests available to try and quantify personality and predict people will interact with each other. What do musicians have? Some people have studied the correlation between instrument type and personality and of course there are hundreds of…
Who Got The Swag?
Daniel J Liss, one of the OM Quiz regulars, was responder number 5 on Friday and has a copy of I Furiosi’s new CD Crazy on the way to his house. Congratulations, Daniel! Giving away free stuff is a fun…
Email Meltdown
Hello folks, A bit of a Murphy’s law situation here. All addresses @theomniscientmussel.com are not working at the moment. If you need to get in touch, please use omniscient.mussel@gmail.com Thanks for your patience and hopefully this will be fixed by…
Friday Swag
Hello all and welcome to the inaugural edition of Friday Swag! Here’s how it’s going down: Be the FIFTH PERSON to write in with the answer to the question and the swag is yours. Simple as that.
Free Swag Day This Friday
Hello everyone, Just a note to say that the first of what will hopefully be semi-regular Free Swag Fridays will be happening in two day’s time. Basically, if you’re the first to respond with the correct answer to the question,…
This Should Go On A T-Shirt
“Gullibility is thinking that bathroom stalls will ever change” Stall 2, Greyhound Bus Terminal, Guelph
Hey T-Rex, Great Idea But It Already Happened
Of course, we in the classical music world are, as per usual, light years ahead of every other genre in this endeavour. The perfect song was created in 1808. It’s name? Symphony No.5 in C major Op 67.. We have…
Expanding Into New Markets
A few minutes nosing around OM stats revealed this shocking new development: The Omniscient Mussel is #1 for the search term Ron Maclean + thumbs up. While this state of affairs really illustrates the vagaries of Google indexing more than…