Happy Memorial Day
Monday, May 27, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Video: Talking with vets at the
Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington.
Happy Memorial Day!
Meet veterans of the Korean War as they visit the memorial site in Washington.
beyond the tombstones
Monday, May 27, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Their legacy is
freedom. Freedom to challenge
the powers that be.
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#sundayread for May 26, 2019
Sunday, May 26, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for May 26, 2019:
- I listened to Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” an absolutely critical primer to the crooked justice system in Alabama and elsewhere.
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2VYZIiD - Welcome to Stewart Detention Center, the Black Hole of America’s Immigration System
By Christie Thompson @cm_thompson3 - Flashback: 10 years ago, BarCampBirmingham by the numbers
- 22 Lessons from @StephenKing on How to Be a Great Writer
By @MaggieZhangx - Flashback: Video crash course in metrics
- Who Gets to Decide Who Is an Authority on Food?
By @RachelKing
(RT @chrisbrogan) - “In compelling us to root for a marriage — no small feat in an antihero show — ‘The Americans’ tricks us into rooting for a wife.”
By @SaraFredman
(RT @Longreads) - A long open history of Donald Trump’s racism, Islamophobia
By @GrahamDavidA, @AdrienneNGreen, Cullen Murphy and @ParkerTRichards
(via @lisawborden) - This is what happens when medical professionals don’t believe women.
By Michele @Lent_Hirsch
(via @ikepigott) - Feeling Yourself, a @Mashable series for National Masturbation Month
More posts from Wade this week:
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for May 26 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
a shell a day
Sunday, May 26, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Troves and troves of beach
treasures, piled in a bucket
to make necklaces.
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foamy devices
Saturday, May 25, 2019 by Wade Kwon
One of my hobbies
is to replace dead leaky
batteries too late.
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books on shiny platters
Friday, May 24, 2019 by Wade Kwon
The narrator droned
on and on for another
35 CDs.
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clickwait
Thursday, May 23, 2019 by Wade Kwon
The newspaper found
out that women exist and
have strong opinions.
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a bargain at any price
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Instant access to
all the world’s markets and yet
still so hard to choose.
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the newness wears off
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Once the shine is gone,
what’s left but a decaying
mass of molecules?
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The Birmingham channel: Goodest of all time
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Wade Kwon
A look at Birmingham in videos …
Los Angeles indie pop band LANY performs in April at Iron City on Southside. From Delaney Greenhill.
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Soccer: Loudoun United at Birmingham Legion, highlights from the April game at BBVA Compass Field. From USL Championship.
And the full match. From USL Championship
And Birmingham at St. Louis in April at Toyota Stadium. From Birmingham Legion FC.
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Playing the piano in the lobby of the Tutwiler Hotel downtown. From Vic Bonnel.
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Keyboard capers at the Birmingham Zoo (our vertical video of the week). From Amy McLelland.
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Birmingham’s Jessika Harris sings with Carrie Underwood on “The Champion” earlier this month at Legacy Arena downtown. From Luckiest Wife.
And Underwood performs “Southbound.” From Brianna Nicole Duncan.
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Visiting the Riverchase Galleria, the Birmingham Museum of Art and Trader Joe’s at the Summit. From íƒ ì €ë¦° Tangerine.
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Train east of downtown. From Joshua Lawrence.
And trains in Irondale and downtown. From Amory Railfan.
Train in New Castle. From Kc4vlj.
And trains near downtown after dark. From Sean Madison.
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Goat yoga! At Goat Yoga Bham in Helena. From WVTM-13 News.
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Takeoff. From Emory Carver.
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Parking meter blues (our other vertical video of the week). From Dedman1107.
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The Birmingham Black Barons youth baseball team in action. From Yung Playa Entertainment.
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Promo for Fido’s Friend dog service. From McLelland Piano Studio.
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Drone footage of downtown. From Dunlap Productions.
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Amtrak Crescent pulling in downtown. From Esteban.
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Pitch for Sachai Tea Company to establish a kitchen incubator in Titusville. From Common Thread.
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Musicians from Cathedral Church of the Advent downtown perform “My Savior Left His Throne Above.” From Cathedral Church of the Advent.
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Taking in the Alabama Auto Show and the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama. From the Roaming Blazer.
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Waving to patients at Children’s of Alabama during the seventh inning stretch at a Barons home game. From Minor League Baseball.
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Promo for July 26 Nonprofit Program Planning Intensive Workshop at Rev Birmingham in Woodlawn. From Ty Fix My Nonprofit.
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A Birmingham family celebrates at the University of Alabama graduation ceremony earlier this month. From Jacoby Sims.
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Apparent gunfire on the street (our other other vertical video of the week). From DJ Fa.
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Jets defensive end and Birmingham native Quinnen Williams talks about the value of education. From Robert Kahl.
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Interview with UAB dental student Kandis Carter. From Future DDS.
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Activist and Birmingham native Angela Davis announces she would like to receive the Shuttlesworth Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, on the TV show “Democracy Now!” From Democracy Now!
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Columbus, Ohio, hardcore punk band Beartooth performs “Afterall” earlier this month at Iron City on Southside. From Honda’s and Music.
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Pre-game reel for the Birmingham Bulls during the playoffs. From Birmingham Bulls.
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Atlanta artist Beme Mystique performs earlier this month at Zanzibar International Bar and Grill in Glen Iris (our final vertical video of the week). From Mobay Empire LLC 1.
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looking at a bunch of objects in a museum
Monday, May 20, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Art is a fancy
way of saying globs of paint
or hunks of boulder.
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#sundayread for May 19, 2019
Sunday, May 19, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Photo: Marco Verch (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for May 19, 2019:
- I listened to the F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook, “The Great Gatsby.” Always fun to reconnect with an American classic, even as we live under the severe rule of the 1 percent
[aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Qb5fwp - How America’s obsession with long working hours has widened the gender gap
By Claire Cain Miller @clairecm
(via @tanyaott1) - In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
@ByKenArmstrong - Flashback: The personal touch on LinkedIn
- When will the Earth try to kill us again?
By Howard Lee @HowardYLAPE - This Generation X project from @NYTimes is a hot mess.
(via @petershankman) - Flashback: From 2009, “Survivor” finale live blog with @JenBarnett (spoiler: JT wins!)
- Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times
By Julie Bindel @bindelj - How the Hell Has @DanielleSteel Managed to Write 179 Books?
By Samantha Leach @_sleach - Flashback: From 2009, interview with “Survivor” winner, Alabama’s James “J.T.” Thomas Jr.
- Why aren’t more women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
By @EvelynMcDonnell - Scam Dunk: How a Bootleg Prep School Profited by Ripping off Teens with NBA Dreams
By Luke Cyphers @LurkCyphers and @TeriThompson71 - What Really Happened at the DC School Where Every Graduate Got into College
By Kate McGee @McGeeReports
(RT @rdlewis) - An Instagram poet becomes the social media king of women’s empowerment
By @Juliana_F_Reyes
More posts from Wade this week:
More #sundayread:
- All tweets for May 19 #sundayread
- The latest #sundayread tweets
- More #sundayread recommendations from me
a candidate for every whim
Sunday, May 19, 2019 by Wade Kwon
Tall ones and short ones,
loud ones and quiet ones, lots
of ones in between.
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the worth of a woman
Saturday, May 18, 2019 by Wade Kwon
A living, breathing
birthing chamber who cannot
be trusted at all.
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colbert notion
Friday, May 17, 2019 by Wade Kwon
The scrap of paper
spoke truth: “At every moment,
we are volunteers.”
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