"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
"Every time someone mentions Fats Waller's name, why you can see grins on all the faces," Louis Armstrong said on the passing of Fats Waller, who would have turned 100 this week, and whose centennial is marked by the NY Sun and by NPR.
"Fats was perpetually having a ball; he was the kind of person parties start up around with almost gruesome relentlessness," wrote a jazz critic cited in a Riverwalk tribute.
He also was a musician of genius who should be remembered as one of the great composers, Stephen Budiansky writes in an Atlantic Monthly piece, "Resurrecting Fats."
![[SMMMHDH]](http://www.mgilleland.com/music/smmmhdh.png){kind=small}
