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What Would Mark Twain Say?

Portraying Mark Twain for 35 years,has allowed me a foretaste of heavenprior to my earthly contract running out.The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slopehas taught me that even in this crazy worldit is possible, no, vital, to smile…

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    Jimmy Buffett Meets Mark Twain on the Road to Heaven

    I look forward to working with my brother Darin on crafting a Buffett-Twain show that will delight a Tahoe audience…

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    Lake of the Sky

    "I’m no angel, but for a few moments each day, I can feel like one, thanks to Lake Tahoe, and Mark Twain.”

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    Powerful Places

    “I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet I am strongly inclined to expect one.”

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    An Open Letter from America 250 to America 300

    I only wish I could join you in lifting a glass to the next generation of American experimenters, but theydon’t have glasses where I am, only shovels to keep the embers glowing…

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    Buddy Rich

    He is as swashbuckling today as he was on that memorable night when he led the Scotch Mist Bunny Hop out onto the streets of Chicago…

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    Lewis & Clark

    She also became the very first woman in our history to cast a vote.

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    Huckleberry's Tree and Me

    My breath forsook me, and I came near falling onto the floor in astonishment...

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    Dolley Madison

    But what distinguishes Dolley to my mind, and makes her ahero of her time, really, is the way she single-handedly saved an American treasure…

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    Knowing Your Vivaldi

    I am writing on musical adrenalin alone....

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    Take Two Aspirin

    It was to be that little mouse’s, and McAvoy’s lucky Maui day…

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    Knowing Your Vivaldi

    I am writing on musical adrenalin alone...

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    Judge Lloyd George

    “So Sam, what do you think about President Teddy Rooseveltnow that you’re up here?”

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    Waterskiing the Caldecott Tunnel

    Once upon a time I had the best job in America...

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    Saving Huck

    "All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

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    Sunshine on the Forest Floor

    How can we avoid a Third World War?

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    The Mississippi

    By the way, Marquette, how in blazes are we going to getback home?"

  17. 218

    The Northwest Passage

    So you might be wondering,is there a moral to this history? 

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    Discovering Our Fountain of Youth

    “I must have been drinking from the Fountain of Youth.”

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    Hands Off that Autonomous Weapon!

    It’s a powerful piece of music, a piece of music that could rightfully become a 2026 anthem for all nations of the world, in welcoming a peaceful dawn…

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    A Short History of News Reporting

    I can only imagine the reaction those Commandments might have had in France…“No adultery?  Hey, I’m French!”

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    Flocking Together

    It can happen, as art so often becomes a catalyst for creativity.

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    Diamond Peak is Sixty

    Still, on my daily walks, I gaze up there and long to be gliding down, with a song in my heart, carving turns to the beat of Lido Shuffle, and thanking those who came before me formaking Diamond Peak such a wonderful place to capture the essence of life with a perfect run…

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    Big Birthdays

    I was invited to John Rolf’s bachelor party the night before he married Pocahontas...

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    The Day We Lost Born Again Smitty

    If ever there was an act of God that was identifiable to me,that was it…

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    Now Let's Get Your Story Out!

    If you do those two things, read good books and provide yourself with some solitude, your story will jump out just like that Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. ..

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    Football 2026

    At the end of my string, I turned to that Oracle of Prophecy, my ex-wife, whose favorite team is the Bengals, though she calls them the “Bagels.”

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    Rob Robins RIP

    Whether deep into a good game of poker, or enjoying a cigar with friends, he was forever cheerful, and just booming with good fellowship…

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    By the Numbers

    In a thousand cruises into Emerald Bay, the one where the bride turned into her mother is the one I remember most...

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    Night of the Cotton Bouquet

    Meanwhile, that drive-in movie taught me a lesson that I call upon even today, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,and in the touch of the beholder, as was the case in that night of the cotton bouquet…           

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    My Best Friend

    Stay tuned to these pages for the final chapters of Adventures of Huckleberry Jay…

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    I Was Here Once Before

    There is more to the transmigration of souls to be discovered.

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    Knowing Your Vivaldi

    I am writing on musical adrenalin alone...

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    Flirting with Death

    I got into a gunfight with a gentleman from North Vietnam, and he was as bad a shot as I was, thank goodness. ..

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    The AI Era & Us

    When AI learns how to see, well, we had all better start looking for a place to hide...

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    The Miracle Worker

    Then he pulled and pried me until I was as flexible as a circus performer, and I’ve never been quite so tall in my long life. ..

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    That Seventh Grader

    My surfer friend took a long last look at his Waikapu Whacko, tucked it between his thumb and forefinger, and flicked it unceremoniously onto the road...

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    Animals at Play

    Sea otters are stealing surfboards in Santa Cruz...

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    Hamstringing Putin

    No longer is the question, “How many fighter jets do you have,” but, “How many drones do you have?”

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    Mark Twain Days

    Sam would be proud...

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    What if Women Ruled the World?

    So if we can get this done before we blow ourselves up, wouldn’t it be nice?

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    It's the Bed

    “When angry, count four; when very angry, go ahead and swear.  It's the people's poetry.”

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    The Hornet

    Surviving at sea 43 days on 10 day’s rations for 15 men, they washed ashore at Laupahoihoi on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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    The Charter Oak

    A very smart lady took that charter and hid it in a tree, the hollow of an oak tree to be exact...

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    IRL

    Meanwhile I shall remain a friend trying to become a better person in a country trying to become a better democracy… 

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    Grand Harmony

    I’ve been reading of late that plants can talk to each other and can even talk to certain bugs in a tongue that you and I cannot hear. ..

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    Fifty-eight Tears 1967

    ...and a tear ran down her cheek.

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    Myrtle Huddleston

    The first person to swim across Lake Tahoe was a woman, naturally, Myrtle Huddleston. ..

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    Guinness Book of World Records

    Just looking at some of the records in the Guinness Book has caused me to wonder how I might become officially amazing by getting my name in that book somewheres, and I think I’vehit on it...

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    Do No Harm 2026 Third Party

    The true measure of a person is not net worth, but net humanity.

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    Finland's Wife Carrying Contest

    So you might be wondering, what is the prize for winning the World’s Wife Carrying Championships? I thought you’d never ask. The grand prize is the winners’ total weight in beer.

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Portraying Mark Twain for 35 years,has allowed me a foretaste of heavenprior to my earthly contract running out.The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slopehas taught me that even in this crazy worldit is possible, no, vital, to smile…

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McAvoy Layne

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