They hunted a pack
of virtual monsters with
nothing more than apps.

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I have a Nobel
Prize in Skyrim, two hot wives
and a bitchin’ Dodge.

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Video: Fairfield mayoral runoff

Happy Vice Presidential Debate Day! Or, as it’s known around here, municipal runoff election day. Residents of five cities in Jefferson and Shelby Counties made their final picks for mayor:

• Chelsea: Tony Picklesimer;
• Fairfield: Edward May II;
• Graysville: Clark Julio Davis;
• Hueytown: Steve Ware;
• Trussville: Buddy Choat.

The general election takes place Nov. 6.

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The ringing left him
with the vaguest sense of not
belonging at all.

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Still hot. Still very
hot. When will it stop? Just cool
enough. Nope, too cold.

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Birmingham-area voters have a couple of elections this month as a prelude to the big ballot on Nov. 8.

Tuesday: Residents will pick mayors in these runoffs from August’s municipal elections:

• Chelsea: Dale Neuendorf and Tony Picklesimer;
• Fairfield: Edward May II and Johnnie Wyatt;
• Graysville: Clark Julio Davis and Mary Sue Morgan;
• Hueytown: Delor Baumann and Steve Ware;
• Trussville: Buddy Choat and Anthony Montalto.

Also, city council runoff elections will take place in various suburbs. The winners will be sworn in Nov. 7.

Weld for Birmingham has a list of runoff candidates by city.

Oct. 18: Birmingham residents will vote for officers of the 99 neighborhood associations. The officers serve 2-year terms.

For more information on polling places, call Community Resource Services at (205) 297-8192. Or contact your neighborhood association president.

Polls will be open on both days from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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My picks for #sundayread for October 2, 2016:

• 1-year anniversary of my collaborative book, “The Future of Birmingham.” Free copy: http://itswa.de/futureofbham
• Boarding homes stand between mentally ill and homelessness, by @AmyKingsley4
• Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above, by @MonteReel
• Y’all Connect: Great ebook ideas to win new blog subscribers
• When Parks Were Radical, by @NathanielRich (via @BaxterSally)
• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds, by @TristanHarris (RT @mandyjwatson)
• Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: Cultural mining, by @cbprints #futureofbham
• Why do we follow digital maps into dodgy places? By @GIMilner (RT @legalnomads)
• Flashback: 400 posts on Birmingham Blogging Academy and counting
• Asian-American Actors Fighting for Visibility, by @AmandaHess (via @katherine_lee1)
• We Built This S#!tty: An Oral History of the Worst Song of All Time, by @tannenbaumr
• The end of capitalism has begun, by @PaulMasonNews (RT @danielduwa)
• The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru, by David Samuels (via @ajkeen)
• Enjoli, by @KristiCCoulter

More posts from Wade this week:

• Video: Content Curation for Smarties [SPRF]

The latest #sundayread tweets:

#sundayread Tweets

• More #sundayread recommendations from me

I’m OK with the
events that are unfolding
currently. takes sip

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Taking in the whole
Beatles discography play-
ing all 12 at once.

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No child of mine is
ever getting a license
or taking the wheel.

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New faces take on
the old roles of corruption,
greed, mismanagement.

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More addicts or less,
more pain or less, more wrecks or
less, more cons or less?

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The bus rider next
to me is in her private
hell. I turn the page.

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The big names got called
to heaven in droves, a true
cultural affair.

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My picks for #sundayread for September 25, 2016:

• Flashback: The Future of Birmingham: Ambitious, by @CapertonG #futureofbham
• Tampa Bay Walmarts get thousands of police calls. You paid the bill.
• The Torturing of Mentally Ill Prisoners, by @EyalPress
• Y’all Connect: A beginner’s guide to sharing curation
• The Last of the Earthquake Predictors, by Mark Harris @meharris
• Why scientists leave better lives for India by @VanitaSrivasta1 (via @BluSynergyIndia)
• A detour from the serious route
• A Genocide in Africa Gets its Deserved Recognition, by @readwriteradio (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Inside story of when Run-DMC met Aerosmith and changed music forever, by @GeoffEdgers
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The way to top-of-mind presence
• Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? By @sergenyt and @JoeCoscarelli
• “You want a description of hell?” OxyContin’s 12-hour problem
• Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation (via @KivatiWilson)
• A Letter to My Daughter About Young Men, by Ben @SledgeHS (RT @Garigalicious)

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