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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
6.

– LIGHT BLOGGING – There will probably be few substantive posts this week and none the next; I’m preparing for and then executing a trip to my brother-in-law’s wedding and then a week in Michigan researching my thesis project.

– HUE AND TERROR – It will hopefully be a week of hue and terror, since I will be alternately in Flint and the middle-of-nowhere, studying serial killers and evil ex-lumberjacks.