Selected Journal Highlights
by Steven H. Cullinane, 2002-2003

For complete journal archives beginning in mid-July 2002, see Log24.com.
For entries from 2001 and earlier, see Paper Journal.
Current entries are at Log24.net (or its alias, xanga.com/m759).

New entries of particular interest are listed first. Otherwise the list of entries is in chronological order.

  2003-07-13... Harrison Ford at 61: The Word in the Desert

  2003-07-02... St. Peter: Best Described by Stone, Not Wood

  2003-06-29... Katharine Hepburn at Heaven's Gate

  2003-05-28... The Eightfold Way and Solomon's Seal

  2003-05-18... The Circle is Unbroken: For June Carter Cash

  2003-05-12... Understanding: on Death and Truth

  2003-04-05... Art Wars: Mathematics and the Emperor's New Art

  2003-04-02... Angels of Empire: Randomness, Theology, and Sinatra

  2003-03-24... Deep Chomsky: Truth and Lies, Plato and Orwell

  2003-03-10... Art Wars: Geometry for Jews

  2003-02-28... A Koan for Mr. Rogers

  2003-02-02... Immortal Diamond: O'Hara, Joyce, and Hopkins
         or, NASA Meets Jesus: Recent Developments in Our National Religion

  2003-01-23... The Diamond Project: Meditations on Irene Diamond's death

  2003-01-16... The Vampires Dance: "Four Quartets" meets "The Producers."

  2002-12-19... Hollywood producer dies, meets Bach at Heaven's Gate.

  2002-12-11... Sequel: "This world is not conclusion; a sequel stands beyond."

  2002-12-08... Architecture of Eternity

  2002-12-07... Satori at Pearl Harbor

  2002-12-06... Santa versus the Volcano: A Christmas Meditation

2002-06-10... Steven Weinberg on Religion

2002-06-10... Invariances and Objectivity

2002-06-10... Webmagister Ludi and the Glass Bead Game

2002-06-11... Theorems and Theater

2002-06-11... ART WARS: Quotation from Maureen Dowd

2002-06-11... The Shining of May 29

2002-06-12... Wolfram's Theory of Everything and the Gameplayers of Zan

2002-06-12... The Ya-Ya Monologues

2002-06-13... A Mass for Lucero

2002-06-18... The Ignorance of Stanley Fish

2002-06-19... ART WARS: "Dark City" and the Death of J. Carter Brown

2002-06-20... Metaphysics for Tina

2002-06-24... A Few Words for Mary Chapin Carpenter

2002-06-25... Politics and the New Jerusalem

2002-06-25... For June Lockhart, on Her Birthday

2002-06-25... An Anti-Christmas Present

2002-06-26... A Chautauqua for Chautauqua

2002-06-26... For Pearl Buck's birthday -- The Valley Spirit

2002-06-27... The Cube Paradigm

2002-06-28... Mr. Holland's Midsummer Meditations

2002-07-02... Another Diamond Theory

2002-07-26... Another Opening of Another Show... Today's Birthdays

2002-07-28... Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and Commonplace Books

2002-07-28... A Letter of John Keats on a Web

2002-07-28... William Safire on Weblogs

2002-07-29... Poet Stanley Kunitz at Harvard in 1926

2002-07-30... A Beautiful Mind and the Art of Collage

2002-07-31... The Toys: Minuet in G and Composing Software

2002-08-01... Stephen King's Seattle Rose

2002-08-02... Death of a Cut-up: Burroughs, Collage, and Hypertext

2002-08-02... Double Day: A Death and a Birth

2002-08-03... The Cruciatus Curse, from "West Wing"

2002-08-03... Religion and Pizza in the Summer of 1969

2002-08-04... Two Theories of Truth: Story and Diamond

2002-08-05... What is Truth? -- A Partial Answer

2002-08-05... Strictly Plutonic: Absolute Power and the Death of Marilyn

2002-08-05... Celebrity War Room: A Sequel to "The Hot Rock"

2002-08-05... History, Said Stephen....

2002-08-05... A Star is Born: The Petersen Graph

2002-08-06... A Metaphor for Metamorphosis Flutters By

2002-08-06... Bob Lind and the Popes vs. André Weil and Malcolm Lowry

2002-08-06... Veritatis Splendor according to Wojtyla and Chandrasekhar

2002-08-08... Here's Your Sign: Mel Gibson Meets Octavio Paz

2002-08-13... Edsger Wybe Dijkstra and the Path Through Hell

2002-08-23... August 23 is the Feast Day of St. William Wallace.

2002-08-24... The Cruciatus Curse Part II: Drawn and Quartered

2002-08-26... For the birthdays of Tamayo and Cortazar, "Round Lights"

2002-08-26... Meditation on the Dark Lady of Thomas Pynchon

2002-08-28... The Music of the Dark Lady

2002-08-28... The Cobra Strikes: Maureen Dowd and "The West Wing"

2002-08-28... Thelonious Monk and a Requiem for a Critic

2002-08-29... Spellbound on the Feast Day of St. Ingrid Bergman

2002-08-29... Bird's Birthday... A Reflection by Clint Eastwood

2002-08-30... The Number of the Beast: Call and Response

2002-08-30... A Chain of Links for Mary Shelley on her Birthday

2002-08-31... Block Designs from the Cabinet of Dr. Montessori

2002-09-01... Backbeat in Heaven: Lionel Hampton and Salvation by Grace

2002-09-02... Theology and the Elevation of the Host

2002-09-02... For the Boys from Brazil, "Black Orpheus" Music

2002-09-03... From Sylvester: Synthematic Totals and the Music of Reason

2002-09-04... Chatbots, Neural Nets, and an Old Joke

2002-09-05... Thoughts on the First Anniversary of the Murder of a Saint

2002-09-05... Illustration of the meaning of the word "Lucero"

2002-09-05... Man and His Symbols in Mexico

2002-09-06... The Dying Words of Santa Claus

2002-09-07... Young Hitler and the Boys from Uruguay

2002-09-07... A Birthday Song for Elia Kazan

2002-09-08... Sunday in the Park with Forge

2002-09-08... The Maltese Cross: The Mechanism behind the Movies

2002-09-08... The Maltese V: Today is Victory Day in Malta.

2002-09-08... Donna Tartt and The Secret History

2002-09-09... The Politics of Hell: Dukakis, Burroughs, and the Athenian Pledge

2002-09-09... On Hugh Grant, Michael Dukakis, Politics, and Religion

2002-09-10... Introduction to the Music of "Picnic at Hanging Rock"

2002-09-11... On the First Anniversary: Comment by Doonesbury

2002-09-11... An Era Passes: Tribute to a Hero of the Resistance

2002-09-12... ART WARS for Ben Shahn's Birthday: "The Train"

2002-09-12... In Memoriam: Kim Hunter

2002-09-13... For Friday the 13th: "A Matter of Life and Death"

2002-09-14... The Triumph of the Cross and the Death of Grace Kelly

2002-09-14... Eternal Triangles: For James Stewart, Robert Mitchum, and Grace Kelly

2002-09-15... Evariste Galois and the Rock that Changed Things

2002-09-16... A Time to Gather Stones Together: Readings for Yom Kippur


Notes related to the Diamond 16 Puzzle:

2002-11-09... Shine On, Hermann Weyl

2002-11-23... Notes on Literary and Philosophical Puzzles

2002-11-29... Logos and Logic


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