For more background, see the Log24.net entry of 3 AM Friday, the date of Meader's death. See also a Boston Globe obituary that quotes John F. Kennedy: "Vaughn Meader was busy tonight, so I came myself."

Note that Rousmaniere was John F. Kennedy's roommate at Harvard.

Note, too, that Kennedy's daughter Caroline attended Sister Salisbury's school.

A memorial Mass for Sister Salisbury will be held on Monday, November 22, 2004, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, at 5:30 pm.  

What does all this Camelot portend?   I do not know, but the following quote seems appropriate.

"Flores, flores para los muertos."

-- Tennessee Williams, 1947

Song

"Each epoch has its singer."
-- Jack London, Oakland, California, 1901

"Anything
but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination,
to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a
compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it...."
-- Dennis Overbye, Quantum Baseball,
    New York Times, Oct.  26, 2004

"You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp,
    but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into
    the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to
    make a deal?"
-- Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone

"About
a century ago scientists began to realize that beneath the too, too
solid veneer of what had passed for reality for 2,000 years there was
some pretty funny and fuzzy business going on....

Most
of us, I suspect, would rather believe that the devil is running things
than that no one is in charge, that our lives, our loves, World Series
victories, hang on the whims of fate and chains of coincidences, on God
throwing dice, as Einstein once referred to quantum randomness....

[But] we are people, with desires and memories and a sense of humor - not Ping-Pong balls."

-- Dennis Overbye, Quantum Baseball,
    New York Times, Oct.  26, 2004

"You can be replaced by some ping-pong balls and a dictionary."

-- Anonymous source, March 29, 2001

Tasteful Tunes, continued:
Bush Does Garland

Paul Krugman in
today's New York Times:

"On Monday The Wall Street Journal confirmed an earlier report that in
2002 the military drew up plans for a strike on the base of the
terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an area of Iraq not under
Saddam's control. But civilian officials vetoed the attack - probably
because they thought it might undermine political support for the war
against Saddam. So Mr. Zarqawi, like Osama, was given the chance to
kill another day."

Hell Freezes Over
department:

In honor of this event, here is a recording of Sinatra singing "Sweet Caroline" (RealAudio, 782K) on the Fourth of July, 1974, aboard the U.S.S. Midway at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan.

Bring 'Em On

Iraqi Soldiers Found Dead

From Associated Press-- 11:48 a.m.

Nearly 50 bodies were found, many killed execution style with gunshots to the back of the head.

Why America Is Losing Fallouja

By Alissa J. Rubin and Doyle McManus

Misjudgment, disagreement and shifting strategy fan the flames.

-- Today's LA Times

Date of Infamy,
continued

Today's New York Times Sports:

"The weapons were bought by the police department for the Democratic National Convention this summer but were not used then."

Photos of
Oct. 21, 2004:

Stop, children, what's that sound? Sox Fans Riot

Reporting for duty

A Date Which Will
Live in
Infamy

Today's saint's day:
St. Ursula

Today's birthday:
Ursula K. Le Guin

Today's Scripture:

Zen and the
Art
of Motorcycle Maintenance

Chapter
20:

"Then, on impulse, Phædrus went over to his bookshelf and picked
out a small, blue, cardboard-bound book. He'd hand-copied this book and bound it
himself years before, when he couldn't find a copy for sale anywhere. It was the
2,400-year-old Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu. He began to read....

Phædrus read on through line after line, verse after verse of
this, watched them match, fit, slip into place. Exactly. This was what he meant.
This was what he'd been saying all along, only poorly, mechanistically. There
was nothing vague or inexact about this book. It was as precise and definite as
it could be. It was what he had been saying, only in a different language with
different roots and origins. He was from another valley seeing what was in this
valley, not now as a story told by strangers but as a part of the valley he was
from. He was seeing it all.

He had broken the code.

He read on. Line after line. Page after page. Not a discrepancy.
What he had been talking about all the time as Quality was here the Tao, the
great central generating force of all religions, Oriental and Occidental, past
and present, all knowledge, everything."

Wooing

"Cheering from Red Sox fans could be heard in the ninth, and when
pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra grounded to second baseman Pokey Reese for
the final out at 12:01 a.m., Boston players ran onto the field and
jumped together in a mass huddle.

'The greatest comeback in baseball history,' Red Sox owner John Henry proclaimed."

-- Boston Red Sox Make History,
   AP 10/21/04

Film dialogue:

Will

So, when did you know, like,
that she was the one
for you?

Sean
October 21st, 1975.

Will
Jesus Christ.
You know the f---in' date?

See also the previous entry,
of 12:00:31 AM ET.

Today's birthdays:

See Oct. 21, 2002.