Video: “A Salute to the Troops” from “In Performance
at the White House”

Thank you to all who served!

See all the events taking place today.

• Birmingham Bargain Mom lists freebies and discounts for military personnel past and present.

Photo: Pedro Ribeiro Simões (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 9, 2014:

• UAB study: Common blood pressure drug eradicates diabetes in mice
• @DianeRavitch reviews @YongZhaoUO’s book on China’s “super” schools
• Spotify, Taylor Swift and the mess of royalties, by @BAHjournalist (via @scottperry)
• Mailbag: How to budget for Y’all Connect 2015
• Army covered up suicide of soldier who refused to torture prisoners in Iraq (RT @joshjonsmith)
• The challenge of music clearances for beloved TV series to DVD, by @tvoti
• Project Bulk: My 60 days of ice baths: Experimenting with testosterone and vitamin D
• Why Better “Research Methods” Are Necessary: Beyond the Catcalling Video, by @zeynep:
• Now our government tracks our snail mail, too. By @nixonron
• AUM presentation: The absolutely essential Twitter workshop
• “Sports Night,” An oral history, compiled by @ktatkinson
• The $9 Billion Witness: JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare by @mtaibbi (via @scottperry)
• Black-Owned Businesses Are Quietly Powering Detroit’s Resurgence, by @KABBEYL
• 26 Things You Didn’t Know About the “Terminator” Films, by @IvanMCohen

More posts from Wade this week:

• Frozen Tide battles Razorbacks tonight, Saturday on home ice
• Veterans Day events include memorial service, Wounded Warrior fund-raiser
• Vote 2014: Alabama general election results
• Vote 2014: Midterm voting starts now
• The Birmingham channel: To serve, to sculpt, to skate

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Photo: Big Ben in Japan (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 2, 2014:

• 9 things to prepare you for Moss Rock Festival today
• The New Glenn Beck, by @MooneyMichaelJ
• As concussion awareness grows, HS football rosters dwindle (RT @ikepigott)
• Y’all Connect: Shelly Kramer on the need for inbound marketing
• Amy Poehler answers Reddit questions
• How Edward Snowden Smuggled Secrets Past Danger, by @MicahfLee (via @acarvin)
• Why the collapse of the Birmingham media ecosystem is a good thing: What you said
• Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy
• A Foodie Repents, by John Lanchester
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Month 14: Fall back
• Billy Joel, 33 Hit Wonder, by @NickPaumgarten
• The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster
• How poor Mississippi got left behind by Obamacare, by @SarahVarney (via @nelson_aj)
• Excerpt from Amy Poehler’s new memoir, “Yes Please”… On Taping “SNL” While Pregnant

More posts from Wade this week:

• Dia de los Muertos rises Sunday
• Happy Halloween!
• Birmingham’s Sarcor, Slice featured on PBS series “Start Up”
• Russian/Slavic Food Festival: Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
• The Birmingham channel: The Classic 2014, wandering souls

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A photo posted by Shota Tsukamoto (@shotatsukamoto) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:29am PDT

Happy Halloween! Beware of black bunnies …

Photo: Nasir Nasrallah (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 26, 2014:

• Dalai Lama at Alabama Theatre now, live streaming video #bham
• OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by John @Siracusa
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 52: Yogi barely
• Y’all Connect: Alison Groves on search plus social media
• Excerpt from Scott Thigpen’s @sthig “Trail Magic and the Art of Soft Pedaling”
• How A/B testing became publishers’ go-to traffic builder, by @lmoses (via @NiemanLab)
• Advanced email marketing (and more) with Ramit Sethi
• The Tragedy That Was My Summer of A/B Tests, by @JenHavice (via @johnhaydon @sue_anne)
• How a 19th-Century Math Genius Taught Best Way to Hold Pizza Slice, by @aatishb
• Flashback: Wade’s 101 – Haiku retrospective 29
• An Oral History of “The Wonder Years,” by Amy Plitt @plitter
• Fake news sites use Facebook to spread Ebola panic, by @JoshDzieza (via @zpower)
• Contradictory world of Thought Catalog, a most reviled site, by @TimHerrera
• Friends of Homewood Public Library to hold $5 bag sale 2-4 p.m. 11/9

More posts from Wade this week:

• Men’s Health winner Noah Galloway to visit “Ellen”
• Butcher shop Bottle and Bone opens in Uptown
• Magic City Classic 2014: a guide to the week
• Second Design Week Birmingham offers workshops, talks
• The Birmingham channel: In the air, on the run, on 2 wheels

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Craig Sunter (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 19, 2014:

• 30 Birmingham women to be honored for service
• Ernest Angley church rocked by accusations involving abortions, vasectomies, by @BobDyerABJ
• Flashback: Media of Birmingham: Only site ever banned from al.com’s state blog list
• South Alabama Football Breaks Out of the Lab, by @HollyAnderson
• Y’all Connect: Inspiration from the women of Hollywood
• Finalists for the 2014 National Book Award
• Content Curation for Smarties: What you said
• Hope in a Bottle, by Andrew O’Hagan (via @hunteryharris)
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 49: Milestone
• My former Southern Living pals @annietravel, @ArtMeripol created “Alabama Barbecue” [aff. link]
• Lessons of the Fall: 3 Things We’ve Learned From 2014 TV Season, by @AndyGreenwald
• Future of Culture Wars Is Here, and It’s Gamergate, by @kylenw (via @jayrosen_nyu)
• Telling My Troll Story Because Kathy Sierra Left Twitter, by @AdriaRichards
• How we created the “Saturday Night Live” 40th season title sequence, by @AlexBuono

More posts from Wade this week:

• Vestavia boy to compete on ‘Project Runway: Threads’
• Video: What area in metro Birmingham is this?
• Recycling in the short term and long term
• 12th annual Jewish Food Festival adds pony rides, cornhole
• The Birmingham channel: Gurneys, blood moon, AFI, cystic fibrosis

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Magdalena Roeseler (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 12, 2014:

• To the nines: Wade on Birmingham’s ninth anniversary
• Why the Trolls Will Always Win, by Kathy Sierra  (h/t @griner)
• Southwired presentation: Content Curation for Smarties
• American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World, by @nytrosenthal
• Y’all Connect: Andrea Weckerle on online conflict management
• King of click: the story of the greatest keyboard ever made, by @thedextriarchy
• Flashback: Project Bulk – Day 40: An expanded vocabulary
• 15 Business Books Recommended by 350 Entrepreneurs, by @KatelErickson (RT @tferriss)
• Video: My Tiger Mom
• Finding Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich, Then Vegas Made Them Pay, by @kpoulsen
• Author David Sedaris answers questions on Reddit
• Alabama Supreme Court justice Parker’s guide for overturning Roe v. Wade, by @ByNinaMartin (via @glennybrock)
• Ferguson more divided than ever 2 mos after Michael Brown’s murder, by @AmandaWills
• A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bond, by @DanBarryNYT (RT @vsisson13)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Birmingham Blogging Academy: Speaking gigs: Navigating Today’s Media, October 2014
• Video: Emmylou, Alabama Shakes on ‘Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years’
• Vote 2014: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County general election
• Cask and Drum 2014 video preview
• Gabriel Tajeu releases single, ‘The Beat Goes On’
• Mayor Bell has left Alabama more times than President Obama has traveled abroad

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Birmingham, July 2014
Photo: Wally Argus (CC)

Nine years ago, I
started blogging every day
on this very site.

I serve as a scribe,
reporter, commentator,
blogger and poet.

Birmingham is my
muse, an endless source of great
hope and frustration.

The secret is out,
as travelers flock to our
bistros and taprooms.

Underneath, the schools
continue their decay, in
foundation, in minds.

Room enough here for
hipsters to congregate and
leaders to plunder.

The good intentions
are not enough to wipe out
the lingering stench.

What will become of
our home, our community
and our livelihoods?

Birmingham’s motto:
“The people are the city.”
A blessing and curse.

• • •

First, second, third, fourth and fifth and eighth anniversary posts.

Sloss Furnaces, July 2014
Photo: Shannon (CC)

Video: the history of Labor Day

Happy Labor Day!

Photo: Robert S. Donovan (CC)

Happy birthday, America!

Video: Daughtry performs “Home” at
the National Memorial Day Concert.

Happy Memorial Day!

Video: The MLK tribute

Happy Easter, y’all!

See the finalists and runners-up in the Washington Post Peeps Show 2014 contest.

Video: “Falling Slowly,” by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all!

For your listening pleasure, a great romantic tune from “Once.” Above, the movie, and below, the Broadway musical.

Video: “Falling Slowly,” by Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti

Video: Martin Luther King Jr. in a TV interview.

Take a look at Martin Luther King Jr. discussing the various causes and challenges for the civil rights movement, not just in the 1960s but in 21st-century America.

Happy New Year! The sky’s the limit this year …