Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’

I’m not an extreme person, but whoever invented the terms “tuddy” for touchdown and “celly” for celebration should be drawn and quartered. This is football. It doesn’t have to be cute

From “The Mayor of Leipzig” by Rachel Kushner

Me watching “A Complete Unknown.”

Reading recs 2024

This was a fascinating look at AIDT from @billineastala.bsky.social: AIDT works to help companies hit their hiring targets.... According to AIDT, it has worked with more than 5,400 companies and trained more than 1 million workers in Alabama. www.al.com/news/birming...

I have a lot of faith, but I’m just not yet ready to believe that HBO Max has made a $300,000 offer to you to make a movie out of my very niche Christian novel that came out 8 years ago, Mr. Random Telemarketer. My loss, I guess…

My dad just received a letter at my address letting him know the deadline is approaching to extend his vehicle service plan. This would normally concern him, but sadly, he died 16 years ago.

Thanks. Now I have that song in my head…

“Hatred like love lives on lies.” - Marcel Proust, “Jean Santeuil”

At least two key pieces of evidence in the Wednesday killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson continued to evade investigators Saturday, including an electric bike the suspect rode and the gun used in the killing.

Detectives Scour Thousands of Hours of Video for Clues in C.E.O. Killing www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/n...

Welcome to the SEC, Texas. Enjoy downtown Atlanta with hordes of drunk grown people barking like dogs.

It's Pearl Harbor Day.

“How great is God who has made men in such a way that they can all love, and can understand what happens when others love, who know what loving means! How great is God! How great is God!” - Marcel Proust, “Jean Santeuil”

Really enjoyed the “Music by John Williams” documentary on Disney+. Great sense of him as a creator and person. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”

"But things which appear important to us at one period of our lives when it never occurs to us, so wrapped are we in illusions, that this importance can ever cease to obsess us till the day of our death, dwindle into nothingness with the passage of time." - Marcel Proust, "Jean Santeuil"

Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, has died at 69. The two had a fraught relationship that was immortalized in many of the rapper's earliest hits. nyti.ms/3VobUWS

South Korea’s history of coups and martial law – explained in 30 seconds

LANK

I will not stand by while this "idea" is normalized.

"Simply put, (AIDT &) the agency’s 162 full-time employees teach workers how to do their jobs. That’s everything from robotics to electric vehicles to warehouse and distribution jobs." www.al.com/news/birming...

Simply put, the agency’s 162 full-time employees teach workers how to do their jobs. That’s everything from robotics to electric vehicles to warehouse and distribution jobs. www.al.com/news/birming...

A few months back, I wrote about a family reunion in Alabama involving a tour of a plantation house by the descendants of people who helped build it. Here's a video by one of the participants, Tony Colts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz-e...

Thoughts and prayers for the Door Dash guy who just asked for fortune cookies at the Mexican restaurant we just left. He was serious, saying the person who ordered specifically asked for them. He’s not getting a tip. #TrueStory

I enjoyed “Gladiator II,” and so did the guy who snored through most of it.

The world got its first glimpse on Friday of the newly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The Gothic medieval masterpiece is scheduled to reopen on Dec. 8, five years after a devastating fire shut it down. nyti.ms/41fB1zb

Getting up before dawn to race down to big box stores, standing in line before the doors opened, and wrestling with complete strangers for only slightly marked-down goods had a ritual all its own. www.al.com/news/birming...

"...Are you a disciple of the religion whose founder sacrificed himself for others, paying the price for their sins? Do you believe in the immortality of the soul...? If you can honestly answer yes, what is there left for you to worry about?" - Alexei Navalny

Really enjoyed “Herald of a Restless World,” Emily Herring’s great introduction to the life and ideas of Henri Bergson. @emilyherring.bsky.social

JUST IN: Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted over alleged knowledge of a coup plot to kill his successor and overturn the election results. cnn.it/48ZpAgA

From “Creation Lake,” by Rachel Kushner

This week’s announcement that Wind Creek Hospitality is acquiring the Birmingham Race Course has some horse owners optimistic that thoroughbreds might once again compete, 29 years after the last race in the Magic City. www.al.com/business/202...

Saw "Heretic." Hugh Grant was very good as perhaps the worst person to ever welcome a missionary into his home. Also continues a good trend of movies about creepy houses with enormous basements.

"Part of the human tragedy is that we all seem to have more than one life in us." - Mario Vargas Llosa

The message, “Save Jackson Hospital. Expand Medicaid Now,” sponsored by Cover Alabama, points to issues plagueing small health care centers across the country -- and says Medicaid expansion, so far rejected by state lawmakers, would help. www.al.com/news/montgom...

Owned by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Atmore-based Wind Creek has purchased the track and its holdings from its longtime owners, the McGregor family, with the sale expected to be finalized early in 2025. www.al.com/news/birming...

"The sum of a million facts is not the truth." - William Manchester

Enjoyed “Conclave.”

“People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could even be said that they are no longer pretending.” Rachel Kushner, “Creation Lake

First, the numbers: Alabama’s immigration rates are rising, but are still relatively low — 4%, compared to 14% nationwide. An AL.com analysis found that much of the growth is concentrated in small pockets across the state, while some counties are seeing declines. www.al.com/educationlab...

What’s in a jersey number? @aldotcom.bsky.social asked 17 Alabama players, from Jalen Milroe to Jihaad Campbell, for the story behind theirs. www.al.com/alabamafootb...

Hello new followers! We're glad to see y'all here 👋 Make sure you follow other AL.com journalists -- here's a Starter Pack to get going. We'll update as more of us join.

Richard Tubb, one of Pepper Place's first tenants, announced in September his intentions to retire at the end of the year. A new, but similar, shop will take that space. www.al.com/news/birming...

In an administrative judge's decision last week were details about how Amazon battled a union hoping to organize in Alabama. www.al.com/news/birming...

Found my way here from the other place.