[Dixielandjazz] Happy Birthday to Dan Augustine

[Don Ingle]

Daniel Augustine wrote:
>     Drat!  I didn't take my birthday off of my Facebook page fast 
> enough.  But possibly the good Herr Professor Edgerton already knew it 
> somehow (written on the toilet walls down at the Texas Home for the 
> Incurably Tall).
>     As i already explained privately to Mr. Edgerton, having your 43rd 
> birthday is really not so bad, until you realize that you started 
> counting in hex (base 16) just before you were about to turn 40 (32 in 
> hex).   43 is subjectively a lot nicer than 67.  (And yes, i know a 
> lot of you out there are far older than i, but hey, this is the first 
> time i've ever been 67, so gimme a break).
>     And speaking of age, last night i played a gig at a 'retirement' 
> home with some dixie buddies, and the residents were 10 and 20 years 
> older than i was.  They seemed to like the music a lot, which is 
> always nice, but i got out of there as fast as i could because my 
> birthday was the next day and i started to imagine the cold breath of 
> mortality riding his pale horse up behind me, ready to knock me and my 
> tuba into the ditch (critics everywere!).
>     On the other hand, this morning i was rejuvenated (somewhat) by a 
> number of birthday-wishers and by a clarinet-playing friend who said, 
> "How could one NOT take the "Congo Stomp" by Frank Bunch and His Fuzzy 
> Wuzzies seriously, I ask."  So i went and listened to that and to 
> "Fuzzy Wuzzy" (many praises to Sheik for posting the list of jazz 
> solos) and i loosened my chokehold on mirth's neck.
>     It's getting a little deep now, i see, so i better go.  Ice cream 
> calls.
>
>     Dan
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> On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Paul Edgerton wrote:
> And in celebration, I offer the following quote from The Devil's 
> Dictionary:
>
>    AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices
> that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the
> enterprise to commit.
>
> -- Paul Edgerton
>
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> **  Dan Augustine  --  Austin, Texas  --  ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu
> **             "Thank you, but I have other plans."
> **     -- Response to "Have a nice day" suggested by Paul Fussell
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I add my own congrats, but reeally, only 43? Try 78. I haven'y been 43 
for 35 years,soyou got growing todo yet, sonny. Have a margarita and 
enoy a day of relative quiet - indistrubed by the sound of creaking 
knees, and raspy windpipe.
Best,
Don Ingle