Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’ The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired him Richard Price, 75, is a screenwriter and author whose books include the 600-page drug-war epic…

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

Inside the $85 million agency that powers Alabama’s economy When Alabama lands a new manufacturer, there is an $85 million state agency tasked with training new workers. But how do they do it?

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.

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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”

NYPD divers search Central Park waters for gun used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO, source says | CNN NYPD divers were searching a body of water in New York’s Central Park on Saturday for the firearm used in the fatal shooting of a health care executive in Manhattan, a law enforcement official told CN...

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.

UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting: Detectives Scour Video Record of Suspect’s Movements Cameras are everywhere in Manhattan and they helped lead investigators to a distinctive backpack in Central Park that could be a key piece of physical evidence.

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”

a man in a suit holds a baton in front of a crowd of people ALT: a man in a suit holds a baton in front of a crowd of people

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"

Debbie Nelson poses for a portrait. She has long blonde hair and sits on a couch. Headline reads: "1955-2024, Debbie Nelson, Eminem’s Mother, Dies at 69." Photo credit: Mark Weiss/Getty Images.

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 South Korea has only been governed democratically since 1988, with a previous history of military-authoritarian rule dating back to the Korean war * News report: South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock…

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

LANK

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

Inside the $85 million agency that powers Alabama’s economy When Alabama lands a new manufacturer, there is an $85 million state agency tasked with training new workers. But how do they do it?

"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...

Inside the $85 million agency that powers Alabama’s economy When Alabama lands a new manufacturer, there is an $85 million state agency tasked with training new workers. But how do they do it?

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...

Descendants of Alabama slaves reunite in old plantation house: ‘Words can’t express the feeling’ For some members of the families, it was their first time inside the nearly 200-year-old two-story, white columned antebellum mansion.

And here's the story I wrote:
www.al.com/news/2024/08...

YouTube video by Antonious Colts Riding With The Colts

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...

I was like, “Dude, this is a Mexican restaurant.
He said, “That’s what I thought.”
Dude, the name is Spanish. There’s cactuses in the restaurant…

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

‘Those were good times’: Readers remember Black Friday fights, limo rides, early morning mimosas Black Friday isn't what it used to be, but readers have fond memories - and some not so cheery - of shopping the day after Thanksgiving.

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...