– So Jess and I went to the Bronx yesterday. The game was rained out and the rest of the series sold-out. So we’ll have to wait until next year to see the Tigers play the Yanks. 🙁

– TODAY –
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein) and Huey Long (who wrote that “when Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag”).

Where Have You Gone, Johnny Grubb?: MONDAY MORNING MANAGER: Week 21: Let’s Hope Tigers-Yankees Series Doesn’t Mirror 1961 Debacle.

Detroit Free Press: DREW SHARP: Tigers-Yankees series might be fall prelude.

Detroit Free Press: ACT II: DETROIT AT NEW YORK: Stage is set.

– Yesterday after work I bought a book by each of my instructors: Sky Lounge by Mark Bibbins and Jesus Saves by Darcey Steinke. Then I went to the start of the school year reception at the 11th Street building, and briefly to an after party a block from Union Square.

– NOW THEN –
I’m back!
Look for updated blog images/background by tomorrow.
Look for a number of other updates to Here Is No Why by Friday.
Expect a major expansion/reconfiguration of the site for my thesis project by mid- to late-September.

I’m off for the next ten days, at Jeff’s wedding, then hunting the elusive 19th-century serial killer lumberjack.

I’ll be back at the end of August with chilling stories and jaw-dropping photographs.

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From Facts-on-File. Estimated life expectancy from birth, calculated as a median of the total population.

EUROPE: Western Europe: 78
AMERICAS: North America: 77
EUROPE: Northern Europe: 77
EUROPE: Southern Europe: 77
OCEANIA: 74
AMERICAS: Central America: 73
ASIA: East Asia: 72
AMERICAS: South America: 70
AMERICAS: Caribbean: 68
EUROPE: Eastern Europe: 68
ASIA: Western Asia: 68
AFRICA: Northern Africa: 66
ASIA: Southeast Asia: 66
ASIA: South Central Asia: 61
AFRICA: Southern Africa: 52
AFRICA: Western Africa: 51
AFRICA: Eastern Africa: 50
AFRICA: Central Africa: 48

It’s tempting to read too much into a simple chart like this; for example, every region includes a number of individual nations and hundreds of millions to over a billion people.

– TIGERS – I know it’s not Monday, but at this moment they’re poised to sweep Boston, and worst-case scenario, they’ve still won the series.

– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Elvis, Madonna, and Becky!

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Gate in Persepolis.

When I started the list I posted yesterday, I was going stream-of-consciousness and actually came up with 190. Then I cut the list down to 100. So here are the others; all places I’d like to live, albeit not in my top 100.

– TODAY – is the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Napoleon Bonaparte, Leon Theremin, and Oscar Romero.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

#1-#8: PLACES I’VE ALREADY LIVED FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS
(Chronological order)
1. Flint, MI, USA: East Village
2. Flushing, MI, USA
3. Chicago, IL, USA: Hyde Park
4. Chicago, IL, USA: Humboldt Park
5. Flint, MI, USA: Eastside
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