Trapped inside the car
with an angry wasp speeding
through a red stop light.

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My picks for #sundayread for May 20, 2018:

• Binged the five books of A Song of Ice and Fire (a k a Game of Thrones) by @GRRMspeaking. Started strong, but books 4 and 5 were a slog.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2IxX3Wq
• How Scott Pruitt @EPAScottPruitt Is Gutting the EPA on Behalf of the Fossil-Fuel Industry
  By @JeffGoodell
  (via @IndivisibleWMD)
• The fall of @Univision
  By @KateConger, @DavidUberti and Laura Wagner @laurawags
• Flashback: Embracing the Twitter thread
• The untold story of systemic gender discrimination inside UC Berkeley’s IT Department
  By Sarah Lacy @sarahcuda
• The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones
  By @EliBHager
  (RT @AntoinetteM82)
• Flashback: Do everything wrong and backwards
• A look at publishing platform @Medium
  By @DavidStreitfeld
  (via @prof_kalm)
• The forever fat-shaming of Eddie Lacy @lil_eazy_ana_42
  By Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg
• Flashback: Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 42
• The Fight Over Women’s Basketball in Somalia
  By @Alexis_Ok eowo
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• How Baby Boomers Broke America
  By @StevenBrill
• The Opioid Crisis Is Blurring the Legal Lines Between Victim and Perpetrator
  By @DanielDenvir
• Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times
  By Maria Popova @brainpicker
  (via @redfordcenter) #sundayread

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Ghosts of the past and present

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 20 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Sifting through the good,
bad and mediocre can
diminish delight.

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Do we need to life-
hack our way to paradise
or can we relax?

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A light agenda
crippled by sickness, fatigue
and bouts of nausea.

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A look at Birmingham in videos …

Birmingham police officers attempt to put a woman in custody (our vertical video of the week). From Joshua Deloach.

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Rock group Trey Anastasio Trio performs in April at Iron City on Southside. From Robby Stewart.

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Fox News April report on the fight between Birmingham and Alabama on the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Linn Park downtown. From King Noble Higherself.

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Students hunts for ghosts in Bass Cemetery in Roebuck Springs. From Hieu Huynh.

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Kimy Stewart previews an estate sale. From Birmingham Estate Sales.

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Retired members of the Alabama Air National Guard’s 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing in Birmingham discuss the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion. From Defense Flash News.

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Gardendale senior Diamond Watkins discusses winning Red Diamond Youth of the Year from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Alabama. From Serquest.com.

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Promo for this week’s Executive RoundTable with Trussville pastor Shawn Lovejoy at the Club. From Shawn Lovejoy.

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Trains at Railroad Park downtown. From Close-Up Railfanning.

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Nashville folk-hop band Judah and the Lion performs “Lose Yourself” in April at Sloss Furnaces. From James Masters.

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Birmingham dancers Rachael Inman, Sara Wallace and Alessia Lovreglio participate in National Water Dance 2018. From Alessia Lovreglio.

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Highlights from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference April awards banquet, “A Golden Halo Commemoration Fit for a King,” at the Sheraton Birmingham downtown. From Arkadia Films.

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Birmingham real estate agent Jason Secor on when to move. From Jason Secor.

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Progress report from the Birmingham Business Alliance. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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Nashville’s American Academy of Dance performs “All We Do” at April’s Applause Talent dance competition at the Alabama Theatre downtown, winning Best Lyrical/Modern/Contemporary. From Applause Talent Videos.

Athens’ Kelly’s Studio of Dance performs “Shot You Down” at April’s Applause Talent dance competition at the Alabama Theatre downtown, winning Best Jazz. From Applause Talent Videos.

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Commercial for Mercedes-Benz of Birmingham. From Strong Automotive Merchandising.

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Birthday cake fun with Ruff Ryders Birmingham (our other vertical video of the week). From Ruff Ryder Nasty.

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Promo for the Entrepreneurship Scholars Program at Birmingham-Southern College. From Birmingham-Southern College Business Department.

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Pretty parrots at the Birmingham Zoo. From Da House.

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Talking with the route setting crew at High Point Climbing and Fitness in Inverness From SheSets.

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Izora Devine performs at Al’s on Seventh in Lakeview (our other other vertical video of the week). From Izora Devine.

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Rock band As the Crow Flies performs in April at Iron City on Southside. From Actress Gabrielle.

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Highlights from Birmingham dance instructor Janelle Issis’ sessions at February’s Hollywood Dance Jamz convention at the Sheraton Birmingham downtown. From Janelle Issis.

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Driving and vlogging on I-459 through Hoover. From Vasil N. Atanasov V-Dalaverata.

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Commercial for Friday’s fund-raiser concert with the Warblers men’s chorus at First Baptist Church of Trussville. From Birmingham Baptist Association.

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Mexican banda group Marcos Flores y la Jerez performs in April at Rancho el Centenario in Mt. Olive. From Hector García.

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Feature on Amy Jason of Homewood shop Cookie Fix. From Southern Living.

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Time-lapse ground level view of driving from Huntsville to Birmingham along I-65. From T.J. Hanby.

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A look at the Women’s Business Enterprise Council South’s Power Industry Summit in April at the BJCC East Meeting Rooms downtown. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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Show reel for Birmingham director Jason O’Brien. From Fast Lane Productions.

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Commercial for King Buffet restaurant in Eastwood. From Nelson Wang.

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Soccer: Javanon 07 Black (Kentucky) vs. Birmingham United SA 07 Hypervenom in April in Memphis. From Sean Ladson.

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Mixtroz founders make their pitch at Velocity Accelerator’s Demo Day in April at Iron City on Southside. From Ashlee Ammons.

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A look in German at the 2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama in April at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds. From Dominik Motorsport.

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Presentation on marching for civil rights in Birmingham in the 1960s. From Nayla Aguilar.

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Drone footage of snowy Brook Highland and Meadowbrook neighborhoods in 2017. From Andrew Daviston.

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Highlights from the 2018 Birmingham Corporate Challenge in April in Railroad Park downtown. From Knight Eady.

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Highlights from the 2018 Women in Business event in April at Vulcan Park. From Starnes Digital.

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UAB personnel dance at March’s National Orientation Directors Association Region VI conference in Orlando. From NODA Region VI.

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Chicago DJ Mark Farina in April at WorkPlay in Lakeview. From Cary Pownall.

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Knead the dough, but not
so much that it turns into
a glutenous mass.

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Musical chairs, but
with many cars and also
limited parking.

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Reboots require
a syrupy nostalgia
overwhelming all else.

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Stationery, stamps
and pens, but no time to string
together the words.

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My picks for #sundayread for May 13, 2018:

• Flashback: Beyond how to make money at blogging
• America 2018, in the grips of a heroin epidemic: Looking at 7 days in Cincinnati.
• The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea
  By Evan Osnos @eosnos
• Flashback: A rule of thirds for writing
• .@LiveNation Rules Music Ticketing, Some Say With Threats
  By Ben @Sisario and @Graham_Bowley
• The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
  By @ZariaGorvett
• Palantir Knows Everything About You
  By Peter Waldman, @Lizette_Chapman and Jordan Robertson @jordanr1000
• Woes of America’s fastest growing state, Idaho
  By @MariaLaGanga
  (via @DonnaWares)
• The astonishing innovations of the Netherlands shaping the future of farming, food.
  By Frank Viviano
  (via @redfordcenter)
• Flashback: Project Bulk Day 253: Feelings, noting more than feelings
• How Ryan Murphy @MrRPMurphy Became the Most Powerful Man in TV
  By @EmilyNussbaum
  (via @cturnip)
• The Sordid Double Life of Washington’s Most Powerful Ambassador
  By @RyanGrim
• Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.
  By @PaulBloomAtYale
• Racism Is “Built into the Very Bones” of Mississippi
  By Jesmyn Ward @jesmimi

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: We will control the horizontal

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 13 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

The mechanic checks
YouTube again to make sure
he’s doing it right.

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Water shelves. Vacuum
bed. Wash living room. Polish
garbage. Roll again.

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About seven years
before I arrived at this
quiet waiting room.

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A look at Birmingham in videos …

Hopping a train in Irondale to Atlanta and Greenville, S.C. From John E. Ringo.

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Training program Innovate Birmingham holds its April graduation ceremony at Alabama Power downtown. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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Video announcements for New Life Birmingham church in Huffman. From New Life Bham.

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Portland indie rock band Modest Mouse performs “Cowboy Dan” in April at Sloss Furances. From Rachael Tierney.

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Louisiana high school student De’Jeune’ Richardson recites the poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, her entry for April’s Poetry Out Loud national competition in Washington. From Nola.com.

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DC power pop band Jukebox the Ghost performs “Colorful” in April at Seasick Records in Crestwood North. From ItisRael.

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Kids perform a rap inspired by the book “The Watsons Go to Birmingham.” From Toucranium Inc.

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Members of California State University – Bakersfield read Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” From the Runner.

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David Traylor of City Hardwoods in Oxmoor discusses table saw safety. From City Hardwoods.

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Birmingham hip-hop artist Bo the Great performs. From OTTV25 DA8TV.

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Williamstown, Mass., band Misty Blues performs “Will My Blues” in April at the Nick on Southside. From Roger Stephenson.

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Talking with James Lewis of Bettola Italian restaurant in Pepper Place in Lakeview. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile performs “What Can I Say” in 2012 at the Alabama Theatre downtown. From Brent Huss.

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Promo for the Greystone subdivision in Hoover. From Best of U.S. Homes Birmingham.

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A 1964 report on civil rights struggles in Birmingham. From Hezakya Newz and Music.

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Promo for New Birth Birmingham church in the Killbough Springs neighborhood. From Danny Kang Austin.

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Matches from the 2018 Birmingham Open judo tournament in April at Spain Park High School in Hoover. From Charlie.

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Birmingham attorney and state House candidate Jerome Dees on local TV show “Our Issues Birmingham.” From Our Issues Birmingham.

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Curtis Manning, associate professor at Nunez Community College in New Orleans, discusses the civil rights movement in Birmingham and Albany, Ga. From Curtis Manning.

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Memphis’ Team Thad plays in an April basketball tournament at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex downtown. From Ultimate Highlights.

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A look at the 2018 Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama in April at Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds. From IndyCar.

“One of the most gorgeous road courses in the country.” From Arpukiense.

Katie Hargitt reports on the Honda Indy Grand Prix. From IndyCar.

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A return trip to Birmingham to visit Five Points South and Frank Fleming’s sculpture the Storyteller. From Tia M. Grubb.

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Dining out at Ranch House Family Restaurant in Vestavia Hills. From Best of U.S. Homes Birmingham.

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A virtual train in Birmingham from app “Trainz Simulator 2.” From Deep South Railfan.

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Slow-motion footage in and around Railroad Park downtown. From Take It Digital.

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Promo for the Comrade Challenge at Squad Fitness. From Squad Fitness.

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Visiting Kelly Ingram Park, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and other places around town. From Romina.

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Troy University students examine the Birmingham Pledge. From Troy TrojanVision.

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Alabama’s GOP gubernatorial debate in April at the Lyric Theatre downtown. From American News.

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Maureen McCann of Spartan Invest in Five Points South discusses turnkey rental properties on the Birmingham Real Estate Investors Association podcast. From AlaREIA.

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Atlanta heavy metal band Mastodon performs in 2002 at the Boiler Room in Smithfield. From Adam Corso.

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April launch party for Nexus Fitness in Homewood. From Nexus Fitness.

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