A look at Birmingham in videos …

A 200m freestyle race at the CrossPlex in Five Points West (our vertical video of the week). From Lo Hammond.

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Photo: National Library of Sweden (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 30, 2019:

• Listened to “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic essays, including stellar reads “The Case for Reparations” and “My President Was Black.”
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2FDWIOw
• Body Cameras and Tasers Rake in Billions for Axon, But They’re No Panacea for Police Violence
  By Jonathan Ben-Menachem @jbenmenachem
  (via @drrjkavanagh @diane_o_lucas)
• Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Alabama Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection
  By @ConnorASheets
  #alpolitics
• Flashback: The fight for media attention
• Prescription Drugs May Cost More With Insurance than Without It
  By @CharlesOrnstein and @Katie_Thomas
  (RT @HDuggalMD)
• A Failure to Heal
  By @DrSidMukherjee
  (via @LillyTrials)
• Listened to “Steppenwolf” by Hermann Hesse: A mind trip that gave me pause. Maybe I need to re-read it to better grasp it.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2RGvoEo
• Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster
  By Ben Taub
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• “You Can’t Say It Doesn’t Exist”: A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to ’85
  By Elisa Wouk Almino @ewoukalmino
  (via @18thStreetArts)
• Flashback: Freedom
• The Day the Music Burned: What really happened in the 2008 Universal fire
  By @JodyRosen
• “The Mueller Report: Vol. I,” now available as a free streaming audiobook from @HooplaDigital.
• Book excerpt from “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” by @EJeanCarroll
• The Battle Between Action and Belief
  By @MargaretAtwood
  (via @lcle)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Reigning queens

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 30 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Promo for a June prayer meeting in the former Brown Mackie College building in Homewood. From Kevin Moore.

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Photo: Wilson Huang (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 23, 2019:

• Check out my new haiku site, http://wadesdailyhaiku.com.
  #haiku #poetry
• Under Trump, EPA Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers
  By @EricLiptonNYT and @Danielle_Ivory
  (via @ShapingYouth)
• 8 Unpopular Truths About Christianity, from “The Color of Compromise” by @JemarTisby
  By Chanté Griffin @yougochante
  (via @karlaarcher)
• I listened to “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing, an interesting mystery and family drama with an unsatisfactory resolution. Points for effort.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Y2vU1w
• South Sudan’s youth cope with war by partying in the day time
  By Lily Kuo @lilkuo
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• The Forgotten History of America’s Radical Asian Activists
  By Clio Chang @cliomiso
• Flashback: Slides from Y’all Connect 2014
• Survey: How we use YouTube
  By @Aaron_W_Smith, Skye Toor and Patrick van Kessel @pvankessel
  (via @JamieJBartlett)
• The Aldi effect: How one discount supermarket transformed the way a nation shops
  By Xan Rice
  (via @Amelia_Torode)
• Flashback: 10 years ago: City Stages festival ends its run in debt
  #Bham
• .@NYTmag profile of Fox News personality @SeanHannity
  By @MatthewShaer
• The absurdly high cost of insulin explained
  By Julia Belluz @juliaoftoronto
  (via @Laur_Katz)
• The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us.
  By @Amy_Harmon
  (via @HCAssistance)
• Unleashed in Paris
  By @KateGavino

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Perfect pitch

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

A look at Birmingham in videos …

Hoover real estate agent Dianna Howell tours Pelham. From the Howell Group – KW Real Estate.

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My picks for #sundayread for June 16, 2019:

• The new Wade Kwon resume site — let me know what you think.
  https://findadreamjobfor.wadekwon.com
• Bribes for blogs: How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company and HuffPost stories
  By @Jon_Christian
  (via @notryan)
• Former Jehovah’s Witness @AmberScorah on committing the one unforgivable sin: believing, then not believing
  By @JacquelineAlnes
• I listened to @DorisKGoodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” a masterful dissection of President Lincoln’s political prowess and winning demeanor.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2WGzEJK
• The Secret History of @TigerWoods
  By Wright Thompson
  (via @Lana)
• How to Get Your Mind to Read
  By Daniel T. Willingham @DTWillingham
  (via @WashingtonStand)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – A guide to getting the most out of any conference
• .@RachelBros nahan’s Comic Timing
  By @RachSyme
• The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it “biohacking.”
  By @MonicaHesse
  (via @ranimolla @kimseverson)
• Flashback: Five urgently needed blog topics for Birmingham
  #Bham
• Book excerpt from “Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad” by Nicki Weisensee Egan @nweisenseeegan
• The Making of a YouTube Radical
  By @KevinRoose
• Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
  By @RayDalio
  (via @ndeltoro)
• The man who sold shares of himself for $1 apiece
  By Zachary Crockett @zzcrockett
  (RT @neoteryx)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Cashing out

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 16 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

I stand, not at the
summit, but at the small ridge
of a long ascent.

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Read more haiku.

Exciting announcement: As this is my 5,000th* haiku, it’s time for a switch-up.

Starting June 16, all my haiku will be on my new site, Wade’s Daily Haiku! wadesdailyhaiku.com You can visit daily, subscribe to the RSS feed, Like the Facebook page, follow the Twitter account or even play along on Instagram. Plus, I’ll have some new options for email through Patreon.

Please check it out: wadesdailyhaiku.com.

*Probably closer to 5,044th, since I had a few days since 2005 with more than one haiku per post.

The ground undulates
beneath my burnt feet, lapped by
wave after sly wave.

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I can manage my
body. Why can’t women have
that autonomy?

• • •

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Own the media.
Consolidate all power.
Don’t show force — use it.

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A look at Birmingham in videos …

UAB recruiting video for Korean students. From Into Korea.

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This verse ends not in
a graveyard but a field where
bodies are buried.

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Alone, he neither
pillaged nor plundered, content
to go reckoning.

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We are curious
creatures but also rigid
unlearned morons.

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Photo: National Library of Sweden (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 9, 2019:

• “Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan … I read the world’s first English novel, and well, the novel’s come a long way since.
• How Birmingham is battling its high homicide rate
  By Katherine Webb-Hehn @KAWebb_
  #Bham
• More than 5,000 new arrivals a day enter the US from Central America, departing border towns by the busload, usually Greyhound.
  By Miriam Jordan @mirjordan
  (via @kimseverson)
• Flashback: Seven steps to get your company blogging
• A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
  By Norimitsu @OnishiNYT
  (via @Wes_Andrews)
• Face Blindness
  By @SarahLyall
• Flashback: The best customer service on social media is often mundane
• Eudora Welty, a Perfect Lady
  By Claudia Roth Pierpont
• Ta-Nehisi Coates and @MrEddieHuang talk race, cultural appropriation
  By Apollo Soléy Enki @oleysoley
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – 36 hours in Birmingham
  #Bham
• The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite
  By @RachSyme
  #ACK
• .@TonyRobbins Berated Abuse Victims; Former Followers Accuse Him of Sexual Advances
  By @Jane__Bradley and @KatieJMBaker
• As cod makes its comeback in Newfoundland, concerns about sustainability arise
  By @JessLeeder
• How to Draw a Horse
  By Emma Hunsinger
  (via @honeystaysuper)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A talent for the mundane

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 9 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me