Sitemap - 2023 - SOME RAMBLING NOTES FROM A 21st CENTURY GEEZER
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1869 Part 5)
Of Time and Revolutions and New Beginnings
CHP Northern California in the 1970s
Firemen in Eureka, California in the 1960s
Working on the Railroad in Missouri in the 1920s
Logging in Northwestern California in the 1920s
Name That Tune (Bass Riffs #79)
A Mother Helping Her Children do Homework in the 1950s
A Father Teaching His Children Automotive Maintenance in the 1950s
A Mother Teaching Her Teenage Child to Drive in the 1950s
A Father Teaching His Teenage Child to Drive in the 1950s
A Father Teaching His Child How to Operate a Farm Tractor in the 1930s
A Father Teaching His Child How to Ride a Bicycle in the Early 1900s
A Father Teaching His Child Blacksmithing in 1840
A Father Teaching His Son How to Milk a Cow in 1840
A Father Teaching His Son How to Plow in 1840
A Mother Teaching Her Daughter How to Make Clothes in 1840
A Mother Teaching Her Daughter How to Cook in 1840
Visualization of Abraham Lincoln's "My Childhood Home I See Again"
Matthew Arnold's Poem "Dover Beach" Visualized
EAR's "Mr. Flood's Party" Visualized
Emerson's "The Snow-Storm" Visualized
Robert Frost's "THE ROAD NOT TAKEN" Visualized
Packers to Replay and Repay the Vikings 12/31
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1869 Part 4)
Can You Guess the Musical Genre Based on the Instruments?
Roger Miller's "I'd Come Back to Me" Visualized, Part 2 of 2
Roger Miller's "I'd Come Back to Me" Visualized, Part 1 of 2
Experiments In AI Image Generation
Name That Tune (Bass Riffs #78)
Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" Visualized
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" Visualized
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" Visualized
Packers to Prevail Over Panthers On 12/24/23
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1869, Part 3)
AI's Greatest Random Hits, 11-20
Pictorial: A Dozen Desert Animals
Children's Sasquatch Book Released
"Flying, Walking, Crawling, and Swimming Animals of Africa" Now Available (Volume 3 of the Series)
Name That Tune (Bass Riffs #77)
Packers Will Prevail Over the Buck-an-Ears 12/17/2023
The Most Beautiful Animal in the World
Leprechaun Signs Record-Breaking Contract with the L.A. Dodgers
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1869, Part 2)
American Working Men from 1840 - 2030
American Housewives from the 1980s - 2030s
American Housewives from 1840s - 1970s
The Eight G.O.A.T.s of Rock Guitar
Name That Tune (Bass Riffs #76)
A Few "What-If" Pictures of Yosemite in the Style of Non-Landscape Painters
AI Depictions of Yosemite in the Style of Famous Landscape Painters
Bass Guitarists in the Style of Famous Painters
The Best AI-Images of NFL Teams
Packers Over Shrimps to Get to 7-6
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1869)
They Can't Stop Playing the Bass, No Matter What Else They're Doing
All Fairy Tale and Fictional Females Played the Bass!
Name That Two-Tune Medley (Bass Riffs #75)
"Flying, Walking, Crawling, and Swimming Animals of Australia" Is Now Available
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1868)
Prediction: Packers Over Chefs on 12/3/2023 to Even Their Record
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #74)
Loss of the Last Sibling (1904)
Introducing a New Book Series About Animals
Packers Over the Motor City Madmen
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1867)
My Latest Book Earns Me No Profits
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #73)
Picture & Map Book of Dinosaurs and National Parks
AI Doesn't Know Me, So Guesses
Wheresoever She Was, There Was Eden (Death of Livy, 1904)
My New Children's Book is Now Available
Packers Will Beat the Charcoals 11/19/23
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1866)
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #72)
Vague Instructions Yield Mixed Results (Gold Miners in the Mother Lode)
Vague Instructions Yield Mixed Results (New Madrid Earthquake)
Mythical Creatures and Fictional Characters
Dinosaurs Across Time & Space, Part 3
Dinosaurs Across Time & Space, Part 2
Dinosaurs Across Time & Space, Part 1
Mark Twain's "The Story of the Bad Little Boy"
Torture Chambers and Mad Scientists (1903)
Meatpackers Over Steelworkers on 11/12/23
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1865)
My Top Ten Posts (Of Over One Thousand)
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #71)
The First Time I'm Not Predicting a Packers Victory (Who Stinkified My Cheese?)
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar (1864)
Elvis Was Overrated; Dawn Powell, Not So Much
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #70)
Packers Will (Hopefully) Eke Out a Victory Against the Vie-Kings on 10/29
Darkness on the Edge of the 20th Century (1900, 1901)
Mark Twain, Bible Scholar 1861-1863
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #69)
A Skeptical Journalist Interviews Frank Calloway, Part 2
New Source for Sundays With Mark Twain
How Sweet This Victory Will Be
The Sexy New Currency: DonkeydropCoin
Name That Musical Genre (Bass Riffs #68)
At Bottom a Sterling Man (1897)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #67)
Escaping Like a Man Possessed (1897)
A Skeptical Journalist Interviews Frank Calloway, Part 1
Packers Will Be Back in the Win Column Against the Lost Wages Fridge-Raiders
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #66)
A Ruck of Rags (The Tale of Lost Essentials) (1896)
Sayings Which Seem to Contradict Each Other, But (Usually) Don't
Packers To Win Another Close One in Game 4
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #65)
Green Bay Hosts the Aints at Their Home Opener
Around-the-World Lecture Tour (1895, 1896)
Eve's Diary: Translated from the Original (1905)
Everyman's Team (G.B.P.) Morph Into the Falconers This Week
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #64)
Vigilance, Initiative, Matzoh Bread, and Cherry Kool-Aid (Prison Chronicles #6)
“Meeting the Wiley Wizard of Wall Street (1893) and Bankruptcy (1894)”
Ken Fears For His Life After Refusing to Participate in a Riot (Prison Chronicles #5)
Peyton Harbors No Prejudice and Displays Courage (The Prison Chronicles #4)
“A Dog’s Tale” (1903), Part 3 (Last)
What Kind of Animal Are You? (The Prison Chronicles #3)
Alarming Initial Experience (Prison Chronicles #2)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #63)
I've Been In and Out of Prison Hundreds of Times (The Prison Chronicles #1)
“Death of Jane Lampton Clemens” (1890)
“A Dog’s Tale” (1903), Parts 1 & 2
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #62)
“The Pendulum and the Pit” (1889)
“Extracts from Adam's Diary” (1897)
My Experience with Small Claims Court
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #61)
“Susy’s Truncated Biography” (1885)
“The First Writing-Machines” (1904)
One Perfect Thing ... Three Perfect Things?
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #60)
“The Veriest Trash” (A Rattling Tiptop Puff) (1885)
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” Part 4 (Conclusion) (1899)
More Than All the Money in the World
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #59)
The 12 Minor Scales for the Bass Guitar
The 12 Major Scales for the Bass Guitar
Sherlocking the Octaves, and How to Play Any Note With Any Chord
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” Part 3B (1899)
An Introduction to Triads for the Bass Guitar
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #58)
The Three Days (Mistress of the Emergency) — (1881)
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” Part 3A (1899)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #57)
A Wink Swallowed by an Earthquake (1880)
Yet More Misleading and/or Discombobulating Prose from Overworked (or Nonexistent?) Editors
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” Part 2B (1899)
Grocery Shopping Is More Complicated Than You Think
The Difference Between Country Music and Country & Western Music
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #56)
The Deliltification of Roy G. Biv
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" Part 2A (1899)
Life Lessons from the World of Music
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #55)
Runaway Remarks and Carriages (1877)
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1899) Part 1B
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #54)
Autobiographical Fiction (1876)
“The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg” (1899) Part 1A
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #53)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #52)
WE DON'T LIKE THE COLORS OF YOUR FUR, WHACK BLITE!
Another Batch of Boo-Boos from the Press
“My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It” (1898)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #51)
“Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story” (1894), Part 2
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #50)
“Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story” (1894), Part 1
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #49)
More Bilingual Books (English +...)
Is He Living, or Is He Dead? (1893), Part 2
Value-Added Versions of Twain's Books
More Editing Fails (Bad Mothers and Intruding Butts)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #48)
All-Time Colored Baseball Team
Birth of Langdon and Move to Hartford (1870, 1871)
Is He Living, or Is He Dead? (1893), Part 1
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #47)
Little Sammy in Fairyland (1870)
“Traveling With A Reformer” (1893), Part 2
Now I Know Why I've Always Liked Tartans and Bagpipes
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #46)
Fanfare for the Common Man (1869)
“Traveling With A Reformer” (1893), Part 1
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #45)
You Have Your Own Microculture, or Virtual DNA (IOW, "Personality")
“The Californian's Tale” (1893), Part 2
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #44)
“The Californian's Tale” (1893), Part 1
THE GEEZER (based on Steve Miller’s “The Joker”)
Mark Twain Performances in Salinas (5/6/23) and Monterey (6/6/23)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #43)
Flood Stories from Around the World and a Hydrodynamics Challenge
“Last Words of Great Men” (1889)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #42)
Common Expressions that Came from the Bible
“English as She is Taught” (1887), Part 2
Wildlife Photographer Extraordinaire Bob Western
Comparing the A.I. Text Generators ("Chatbots") from OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, Part 2
Comparing the A.I. Text Generators ("Chatbots") from OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, Part 1
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #41)
Making It in the Big Apple (1867)
“English as She is Taught” (1887) Part 1
A.I. Cannot Replace Human Writers
The 10 Best Popular Song Lyrics
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #40)
“Private History of a Campaign that Failed” Part 3 of 3 (1885)
Things Are Not Always What They Seem
The Greatest Trash-Talker Ever
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #39)
Trodding the Boards (1866, 1867)
“Private History of a Campaign that Failed” Part 2 of 3 (Written 1885)
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #38)
Burlingame and The Hornet (1866)
“Private History of a Campaign that Failed” Part 1 of 3 (1885)
The Difference Between Tone and Notes
Of Dreams, Movies, and Sports Fanatics
Name That Tune (Bass Riff #37)
“Taming the Bicycle” (1884) — Part 2 of 2
What Indians and Pirates Had In Common
How to Make the Most Salubrious Smoothie
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #36)
Police Brutality, Jackass Gulch, the Jumping Frog, and an Epiphany (1864, 1865)
“Taming the Bicycle” (1884) — Part 1 of 2
Millions of Dolphins and Trillions of Plants Can't Be Wrong
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #35)
Aborted Duel and Absquatulation (1864)
“The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm” (1882)
Today's Live Mark Twain Performance
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #34)
Awakening Out Of A Long Sleep, and Death of Jennie (1863, 1864)
The News Follies, Revisited (Spelling, Grammar, and Logic Errors)
“On The Decay of the Art of Lying” (1880)
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #33)
New American Short Story Anthology Available
Stretching and Reporting the Truth (1862-1864)
Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Now Available for Free in an English/IPA Version
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #32)
Mining and Milling, and the Blind Lead (1861, 1862)
"The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton” (1878), Part 4 (Last)
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #31)
Chapter 27 of "Rebel With a Cause: Mark Twain's Hidden Memoirs"
"The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton” (1878), Part 3 of 4
THE ADVENTURES OF MARK TWAIN, Part 2
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #30)
"The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton” (1878), Part 2
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #29)
The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton (1878), Part 1 of 4
Name That Tune (Bass Riddle #28)