-- [ From: John Bird * EMC.Ver #3.2 ] -- A friend of mine gave me the most recent copy of the magazine "Pipes and Tobaccos," with Mark Twain on the cover and the first of a two-part article inside. A familiar, relatively trustworthy account of his life, with heavy emphasis on his smoking habits. The tone of the article is very pro-smoking, of course. The cover photo is a sepia-toned picture of MT in a rocking chair with a pipe and a porcelain cat in his lap. The editor makes a nice pitch for the Mark Twain Project in his opening column. Here's an e-mail address for subscriptions if anybody is interested: [log in to unmask] (I have nothing to do with the mag--and I'm pretty anti-smoking--except for the cigar smoke-in at Quarry Farm last summer, of which I was proud to be a part!) -- John Bird [log in to unmask] Have you picked your mandolin today?