Get the list owner to switch services, seems the only solution. It's an age-old problem that I never have on Yahoo or Google groups, only Twain. I can send it as attachment to anyone who asks me directly at <[log in to unmask]> --- On Thu, 12/6/12, Wolfgang Hochbruck <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Wolfgang Hochbruck <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: FIRES, TWAIN AND TOM IN SAN FRANCISCO + ZOMBIES EAT SANTA > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 8:08 PM > uuuh .... is there a possibility to > get the below in more > legible format? Sorry for being a bother ... > > Wolfgang > > (active member, Denzlingen VFD, and still gloating over the > idea of Tom Sawyer, fireman ...) > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 03:31:37 -0800 > Richard Reineccius <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > A favorite librarian in San Francisco alerted me to > this > > book, just after m= > > idnight, and sent this column from the Rupert Murdoch > Bay > > Area flagship dai= > > ly - San Jose Mercury-News. The other books may > interest > > some of you.=0A(fo= > > r the graphics, log MERCURYNEWS.COM)=0AOf course, the > > other Tom Sawyer & Tw= > > ain story was that a drinking buddy in North Beach > & > > Downtown SF had the na= > > me Tom Sawyer. That one later opened a small wine & > more > > store called "The = > > Original Tom Sawyer Spirits Shop"=0A=0A-Richard R, in > San > > Francisco. =A0=A0= > > =A0 =0A*****************************=0A=0AESPECIALLY > FOR > > SF BAY AREA TWAIN = > > FANS:=0A=0ABooks=A0- San Jose Mercury-News=A0=A0 > > =0AGeorgia Rowe: Where Mar= > > k Twain met Tom Sawyer=0A=0ABy Georgia Rowe=A0 > > Correspondent=A0=A0=A0mercur= > > ynews.com=A0 Posted: 12/06/2012 12:00:00 AM > > PST=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A= > > =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Click to > enlarge=A0=A0=A0 > > =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0= > > =0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 Cover of "Black > Fire: > > The True Story of t= > > he Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious... ( > Crown > > )=0A=A0=A0=A0 =A0= > > =A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 Tom Sawyer and > > Mark Twain meet in S= > > an Francisco in "Black Fire," Robert Graysmith's > > fascinating account of tha= > > t city in the 19th century. =0A=0AOther highlights > among > > this month's new r= > > eleases by Bay Area authors=A0=A0=A0 include fiction, > > poetry, a study of lo= > > ve from the French point of view and a book of images > now > > in a time capsule= > > orbiting the Earth.=0A=0A=A0=A0=A0 "Black Fire: > The True > > Story of the Orig= > > inal Tom Sawyer -- and of the Mysterious Fires That > > Baptized Gold Rush-Era = > > San Francisco" by Robert=0AGraysmith (Crown, $26, 288 > > pages). Before Tom Sa= > > wyer was a fictional hero, he was a real-life one -- > an > > 18-year-old "torch = > > boy" who raced ahead of San Francisco's volunteer fire > > brigade, carrying to= > > rches to light the way. This intriguing history by Bay > > Area journalist and = > > author Graysmith ("Zodiac") documents the fires, set by > a > > mysterious arsoni= > > st known as "The=0ALightkeeper," which burned in the > city > > six times between= > > 1849 =A0=A0=A0 and '51. A decade later, Mark > Twain -- > > then a reporter for = > > the city's Morning Daily Call -- met Sawyer in a San > > Francisco steam bath. = > > Graysmith, whose drawings illustrate the book, links > the > > people, places and= > > events that led Twain to write his first > > book.=0A=0AOTHER BOOKS NEW BY THE= > > SAN FRANCISCO BAY=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The > Last > > Pictures" by Trevor Pagl= > > en (University of California =A0=A0=A0 Press, $27.95, > 208 > > pages). Every art= > > ist hopes to create works that =A0=A0=A0 will endure, > but > > UC Berkeley's Pag= > > len aimed high with "The Last Pictures." The > > artist/scholar compiled a coll= > > ection of 100 black-and-white photos that were etched > on > > a disc and sent in= > > to orbit aboard the EchoStar XVI satellite last month. > > Expected to circle t= > > he Earth for 4.5 billion years, the images in this > unique > > time capsule refl= > > ect art, nature, technology, political movements and > > views of space from Ea= > > rth.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0=A0=A0 "How the French Invented > > Love: Nine Hundred Y= > > ears of Passion and Romance" by Marilyn Yalom (Harper > > Perennial, $15.99, 41= > > 6 pages). Do the French understand love better than > the > > rest of us? Yalom, = > > a professor of=0AFrench and senior scholar at > Stanford's > > Clayman Institute = > > for Gender Research, suggests that they do. Exploring > key > > events in literat= > > ure, philosophy, art and drama, she traces the history > of > > l'amour from 12th= > > -century courtly love to contemporary films by Claude > > Lelouch. In chapters = > > on Moli=E8re, George Sand and Alfred de Musset, Simone > de > > Beauvoir and Jean= > > -Paul Sartre, Yalom makes her case with considerable > > insight.=0A=A0=A0=A0 = > > =0A=A0=A0=A0 "The Bird that Swallowed its Cage: The > > Selected Writings of Cu= > > rzio Malaparte" adapted and translated by Walter Murch > > (Counterpoint, $24, = > > 144 pages). Murch, a Marin-based film editor and sound > > designer who=A0=A0= > > =A0 earned Academy Awards for his work on "Apocalypse > > Now"=A0=A0=A0 and "Th= > > e English Patient," makes his mark as a translator in > > this volume of short = > > works by Italian author Curzio Malaparte.=0AAs a > > journalist, Malaparte wrot= > > e from the front lines of World War II; poet Robert > Hass > > has called him "on= > > e of the most startling and unexpected chroniclers of > the > > violence of the 2= > > 0th century," adding that Murch's translations are > > "tone-perfect."=0A=A0=A0= > > =A0 =0A"Nearly Nowhere" by Summer Brenner (PM Press, > > $15.95, 173 pages). Ge= > > orgia-born, Bay Area-based Brenner, whose earlier > books > > include the noir th= > > riller "I-5," returns with this relentlessly paced > novel, > > whichopens in New= > > Mexico. Kate, an artist, and her teenage > daughter, Ruby, > > are just scraping= > > by, when the arrival of a troubled drifter turns > their > > lives upside down. = > > Robbery and murder lead to the wilds of Idaho, with > the > > final showdown invo= > > lving a gang of Neo-Nazi survivalists. "Nearly > Nowhere" > > exerts a powerful g= > > rip right to the end.=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0A"I Saw Zombies > > Eating Santa Claus: A B= > > reathers Christmas Carol" by S.G. Browne (Gallery > Books, > > $14.99, 199 pages)= > > . Andy Warner's been held captive for a year in a > zombie > > research facility = > > in Portland, Ore. Disguised as Santa, he breaks free > -- > > and thus begins the= > > newest chapter in the satirical "Breathers" saga > by San > > Francisco's Browne= > > . Hilarious, horrifying and just in time for the > > holidays, it's a must for = > > anyone who can't get enough of the > > undead.=0A=0ASHOWTIME:=A0=A0=A0 =0A=A0= > > =A0=A0 michael, michael, michael:=0A=A0=A0=A0 Mrs. > > Dalloway's presents "Thr= > > ee Michaels," with Michael=0A=A0=A0=A0 Chabon, Michael > > Pollan and Michael L= > > ewis, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., in=0A=A0=A0=A0 Berkeley's > Roda > > Theatre, www.mrsda= > > lloways.com,=0A=A0=A0=A0 =0AThe Top Ten: 2012 was a > great > > year for Bay Area= > > authors. Here are 10 of the year's finest, still > > available at your local b= > > ookseller: "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon; "A > > Hologram for the King" = > > by Dave Eggers; "Some Assembly Required" by Anne > Lamott > > (with Sam Lamott); = > > "Monstress" by Lysley Tenorio; "The Great Animal > > Orchestra" by Bernie Kraus= > > e; "Equal of the Sun"=0Aby Anita Amirrezvani; "What > Light > > Can Do" by Robert= > > Hass; "I'm Your Man" by Sylvie Simmons; > "Subversives" by > > Seth Rosenfeld; a= > > nd "Waging Heavy Peace" by Neil > > Young.=0A=0A-0-=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A > > Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck > Dept. of English > Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg > Rempart St. 15 > D-79098 Freiburg > Germany >