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Summer Book Meme

Here is a quick variation on the iTunes meme from yesterday intended specifically for those who have written books.
All you need to do is:

Copy the entire text of your book to the clipboard.
Go to Wordle.net, open a new Wordle and paste the text.
Change all the style settings et voila! Some art to complement your publication.

Here’s [...]

Book Meme Vol. 2

Posting has slowed to a crawl here at OM headquarters although that is not in anyway indicative of a diminishing in the Things That Need Doing department. Miss Mussel will be away from the internet [GASP] most of next week at the cottage and will be devoting much energy to evening it out her [...]

“All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

A rather delightful piece of spam received this weekend from a person styling themselves as The Somalist urging Miss Mussel and her readers to Buy Soma Now!!!!!!.
Handwringers have warned us for years the Brave New World is now. If this spammer is the prophet he claims to be, it seems that worriers the world over [...]

Tuesday Links

Bernard Holland has an excellent piece in the NYTimes on audience behaviour in centuries past. It doubles as a sort of review of Kenneth Hamilton’s book on the same subject After The Golden Age, the premise of which is: if music is to go back to original instruments and original performance practices, it has [...]

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 [...]

Hating Celine: The Ethical Choice

It causes Miss Mussel great pain to admit it, but she shares citizenship with the pictured woman/stick insect, aptly described by Sam Anderson as
the Antichrist of the indie sensibility, an overemoting schmaltz-bot who has somehow managed to convert the ethos of Wal-Mart into sine waves and broadcast them, at kidney-rupturingly high volume, directly into [...]

“That’s A Buncha Airiadite Readin’ You’ve Got There”

Miss Mussel’s local library had a book sale this morning and for the bargain basement price of $9, she has become the owner of the following volumes:
Gray, Cecil. Contemporary Music. OUP, 1924.
Sullivan, JWN. Beethoven. Pelican, 1951.
Bonavia Hunt, HG. A Concise History of Music. Scribner’s Sons, 1903.
Nettel, Reginald. The Orchestra In England. Alden, 1946.
Guerber, H.A. [...]