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– Waking, I didn’t know that today was “Be Late to Something Day,” but I honored it by being an hour late to work. First, I got off to a late start, then, after walking fifteen minutes to the subway, I found out that the one thing I’d forgotten was my wallet with cash, credit card, and fare card.

– I didn’t post yesterday because I’ve been working on Here Is No Why, and I hoped to announce a comprehensive overhaul today. However, I have finished the pages for background, news, posted some pictures, links, and a guestbook.

There are “centrist Democrats” and “moderate Republicans,” and “independents.” Under almost all circumstances I’d vote for whoever seemed best qualified for the job, but in essence I’d drectibe myself as a “centrist socialist.”

I don’t believe in proletarian militancy as the vehicle for worldwide reform which rules out communism, nor do I take Marx quite literally enough to be an unabashed socialist.

This is Booty.

Behind Detroit.

Great.

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I’ve had a number of thoughts bubbling up and out for awhile, and the best opportunity to test them was actually last week, when I got into a rich discussion/argument with the unlikely combination of my brother, parents, aunt, grandma, and two family friends.

As profoundly dumb as I usually find Glenn McCoy’s comic (ie. wallowing in the mud of punditry), he probably had the best evocation of the media and the Jon Benet case. Which is here at least for today (since I couldn’t find a permanent link to this strip).

– 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.