[Dixielandjazz] Re: Evil Doings--Weekly Columns, Lamps

[Dan Augustine]

Don, Jim, and others--
    That's probably good advice about not writing a weekly column.  The following quotations come to mind:

    "Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet
     of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead."
                                       -- Gene Fowler  
             
    "There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a
     typewriter and open a vein."  -- Red Smith         

    However, the question arises in the enquiring mind as to what might be the 'proper' redesign of your musical instrument after you cease using it for that purpose.
    For instance, take my tuba ("Please!"), or better yet, one of my sousaphones.  Making a lamp out of it would necessitate buying a much bigger table to rest it on, and in turn a huge house to hold the table.  Perhaps it could better be turned into some other more functional design, such as a city sewer-system.  Unused bagpipes could be fashioned into fake love-objects for the confused octopus, and of course it is obvious what inutile kettledrums' new purpose in life could be.  Quite a nice column or two might be wrestled out of these conceits.

    Dan
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>From: "Don Ingle" <dingle@baldwin-net.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Evil Doings
>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:32:43 -0500
>
>Dan, in reply to Jim Beebe: >How about a weekly column?<
>Don't do it Jim! I write six columns of week -- for one weekly and two daily
>newspapers -- and my life is no longer my own!!
>Better would be the time spent designing the proper lamp to be made from
>your horn. I have several designs in mind for my trumpet, cornet, Dad's
>(Red) curved soprano sax and his violin. My valve 'bone could make a dandy
>chandelier.
>Considering the scantiness  of work around here (No. MI) I might begin the
>work at any time!<G>
>By the way -- I have found that you don't have to be a cynic to be a
>curmudgeon. Once past the spelling, it's a piece of cake!
>Don Ingle

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