All Entries Tagged With: "fun"

Juxtaposition

NSFW if your work is uptight about anatomically correct vocab, religion or silliness.
After weeks of boring old whitebread home/auto/business insurance spam, Miss Mussel is excited to report that someone has finally taken the initiative and created something worth repeating.
Here’s what “Kathy” sent along this morning.
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I praise God for answering my prayers.
God, you [...]

Who Says Politics Are Boring?

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald (well yesterday’s technically since it is already tomorrow there) has a great story on shenanigans in the Australian Parliament.
In a nutshell, the Opposition party is annoyed that PM Kevin Rudd does not attend sessions on Fridays, instead choosing to do other things, like visit the electorate. How did they illustrate [...]

Jumping Off A Cliff

If Wellsung, Soho The Dog, Steve Smith and La Cieca are doing it, then so is Miss Mussel.
It’s the birth opera meme. Courtesy of the Met’s archives, you can find out what was playing on the day you were born.
For those born in summer, when the Met is shut, the rule seems to [...]

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. [...]

The Toronto Symphony Goes Viral. World Class Status Cemented.

Toronto has always been the pesky younger sibling of the major world city family, constantly tagging along and trying valiantly to be just as charming and forward thinking as its older siblings New York, Paris, London, Berlin and Sydney.
Thanks to a tip from Soho The Dog, it seems as though the city is ready to [...]

Introducing: Nora LeChat

Miss Mussel has been reading classical music blogs long enough to know that people have been aware of this emerging young pianist for some time. Her fearlessness in programming aleatoric music and finely honed instincts for pushing the boundaries of tonality are truly remarkable.

In her second public performance, it is obvious that Nora has matured. [...]