Here's a question to ponder: Why is there no big Mark Twain business in San Francisco? Not long ago I was contacted by someone developing tours that wanted to research the connection between Twain and Emperor Norton -- an interesting idea -- and this got me to thinking: SF really doesn't play up the Twain connection much at all. I mean, Oakland at least has Jack London Square, but I can't recall even a good Mark Twain saloon in SF or even a Mark Twain bordello or a newspaperman writing a column of Mark Twain Journalism (Herb Caen never took that one on, but he had his own great reputation as the one who coined "beatnik" and "Baghdad by the Bay" and more), and I've never heard of any of the Chinese civil rights organizations handing out The Mark Twain Award for Outstanding Anti-Racist or Mark Twain's Last Dime homeless shelter . . . All possible Mark Twain connections with SF. Even Angel Camp had the Jumping Frog Festival -- until people complained of cruelty -- so you'd figure SF would jump in with its own celebration. I'm writing a letter to the Chamber of Commerce. Hilton Obenzinger Stanford University