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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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– 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.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Painting became the expressive use of color, line, and volume as it addressed the demands of bringing working space to the flatness of the canvas.

– AUGUST – Is the month of the Grateful Dead.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Liz.

– STATE OF THE WEEK –
Michigan.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What’s your favorite song, Deadhead?

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This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

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Ignoring the artists’ claims for the semantic significance of their formal experiments, Clement Greenberg cast them as seeking autonomous, self-contained states earned by following the Kantian imperative to concentrate on the properties distinctive to the medium.