Here are the top non-U.S. world leaders in my 1986-2000 index:

1. Adolf Hitler... 4.5 lines in the index
Boris Yeltzin... 4.5
3. Saddam Hussein... 4
4. Mikhail Gorbachev... 3.5
5. Jesus... 3
Fidel Castro... 3
7. Pope John Paul II... 2.5
8. Yasir Arafat... 2
Margaret Thatcher... 2
10. Tony Blair... 1.5
Kim Jong Il... 1.5
Slobadan Milosovic... 1.5
Mao Zedong... 1 ( Read more... )

I recently went thru my journal index from 1986 through to 2000.... and I found that the majority of famous people in the index were either U.S. politicians or Music Artists.... These were my main interests in the world.

Here's the top 10 U. S. politicians:

1. Bill Clinton... 26 lines in the index
2. George H. W. Bush... 19
3. Ronald Reagan... 13
4. Al ( Read more... )

The Top Ten Things that were in my Journal Index from 1986 to 2000 (ie subjects that were non-places and non-people):

1. Poems / Poetry... 9 lines in the index
2. Television... 8
3. Blacks / African Americans... 7
Drugs... 7
5. Iran-Contra Scandal... 6.5
6. Christmas... 5.5
Football (American)... 5.5
Marriage... 5.5
9. AIDS... 5
Republicans... 5

I do like counting things... and I took it upon myself recently to see what the most popular entries were in my journal index covering the years 1986 thru 2000.

Here are the most popular locations (ie places) in my journal index, listed with the number of lines taken up in the index...

9 lines.... New York City, UMass, United States

7.5... Scotland

7 ( Read more... )

I took some time to write down some childhood memories of my brother Brian, below, and also some info from my journals of the '80's and 90's.

We just had a family gathering to remember him. He passed away a few months ago, late last year

Here are some memories:

Brian

I am on the plane, and wanted to take some time to jot down some memories of Brian… ( Read more... )

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The inductees of the Journal Hall of Fame, again, listed with their number of appearances on the yearly top ten lists (so far):

Ronald Reagan, 2 appearances, 1986 and 1987
Pat Robertson, 3 ... 1986, 1987, 1988
George H. W. Bush, 8 appearances, 1987-1994
Bob Dylan, 5 appearances
Mikhail Gorbachev, 3... 1987, 1990, 1991
Saddam Hussein, 2... 1990, 1991
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Yes, it's a bit weird, but I have a long-term project to make an index for my old journal books.

I recently completed the year 1999 (thru journal book volume 44). I still have a long, long way to go as my current journal is at volume 145.

So, an index will make things easier to find, obviously, if I ever go back and write my autobiography or ( Read more... )

A few posts ago, I posted some doodles from the mid '80's I did in a school notebook. I was just perusing the internet and found a yeasthead comic strip... Which I had based my doodles on... characters from that UMass student comic strip had become something I would draw while fighting boredom in class.

Here's what I found on the internet:

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