Brandon Walker

Assistant Professor, Narrative Storyteller, Audio Engineer, Video Editor, Songwriter, and Ph.D. Body by soul food, hair by wife and kids.

[Jason Dockery @Jdoc526]

@SamOlbur This is the most frustrated I have ever been as a Cubs fan.

[Brendan Miller @brendan_cubs]

The first Cubs Saturday game of the year. Uninterrupted, full attention to the game. We’re back.

[PrideOfTheTide.com @PrideOfTheTide]

For this, the 2,232nd day since Auburn last beat Alabama.....

That is now, 6 years, 1 month, 9 days

[Goat Doe @TheUACoaches]

The @Seahawks fire this man and shoot to the #1 spot in the NFC, tied for the best record in the NFL w/ Patriots and Broncos at 13-3. Sheridan had guys running open all last year, we just couldn't find them; respectfully. This man is overrated, and his plays are next level CHEEKS

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg just settled $8 billion to make the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit disappear and in doing so, avoided testifying under oath.

[StudentFilmmakers Magazine @StudentFilmMag]

Essential gear for beginner filmmakers on a budget: camera (smartphones work), tripod, external mic, basic lighting. Start here, practice your craft, grow your kit. Your story matters more than the gear.

[Kevin Scarbinsky @KevinScarbinsky]

Somebody needs to go full Saban on the Alabama defense on the sideline and remind them this is not flag football.

[Adam Kramer @KegsnEggs]

OK, Alabama. All you have to do is not play like complete dog shit, and you're in the playoff.

Alabama

[Brandon Walker @bwalkpro]

@drewrtanner That and dogshit effort sums it up.

[Kevin Scarbinsky @KevinScarbinsky]

At what point does Kalen DeBoer think about putting in a backup QB? Bad miss there by Simpson.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Design is a dialogue between order and emotion.

[Alabama Crimson Tide Updates @BamaMinute]

Ok. Yep.

[Brandon Walker @bwalkpro]

@ThreeGreen21 It’s good. Everyone is nice, kids are great, etc.

[Michael Cerami @Michael_Cerami]

If the prices were too high, you don’t have enough talent. And that’s also your fault.

[Isaiah Walker @walkeri141]

BREAKING: The Chicago #Cubs are finalizing a deal that will send Jed Hoyer to federal prison. No word on return yet

[Cory @helmzeesays]

The Chicago Cubs:

[Brandon Walker @bwalkpro]

@TerrySydnor @ThreeGreen21 I concur.

[Brandon Walker @bwalkpro]

Didn’t think I’d check the earthquake box off in east Tn., but here we are.

[Sean Dietrich @seanofthesouth1]

Dallas. The mid-1980s. There were three Mexican boys in the supermarket. The meat department. They were covered in sawdust and drywall mud. They were eyeing the beef, looking for the cheapest cuts. Counting their nickels and dimes.

But they came up short. They were about to walk away when the butcher came from behind the counter and handed them 25 pounds of ground beef.

That’s a lot of meat.

“The expiration dates are technically past due,” said the butcher, “but this is still perfectly good meat if you freeze it. And it’s just going to go to waste if you don’t take it.”

“How much do we owe you?” asked one of the boys.

“On the house” said the butcher. 

The three young men looked at each other. No words were said. One of the boys looked like he was about to start crying.

“God bless joo,” was their response.

“God bless j’all too,” said the Texan butcher.

Rural Kansas. The man was walking his dog in the neighborhood when it happened. A car wreck took place in front of him. On the street. The Ford Contour plowed into a telephone pole. Nose first. Game over.

Soon, the vehicle was on fire. Someone inside the automobile was screaming.

“They were horrible screams,” the dog-walker remembers.

He didn’t know what to do, so he plunged into the burning car and dragged the driver from the inferno. There was a baby in the back seat. He saved the infant, too.

Today, the baby is a grown woman who drives a truck for a living. A few months ago, that truck driver visited a nursing home.

“You don’t know me,” she said, as she sidled up to the elderly man’s bedside. “But you saved my life when I was a baby. I just wanted to thank you.”

The truck driver told this same story at that man’s funeral.

Atlanta. The homeless guy was seated in the parking lot of an old gas station, cradling a paper bag, from which he kept taking sips. He had reached the point of not caring. He was done asking for money. He was done trying to find enough food and booze to stay alive.

He went to an overpass bridge. He was going to jump into traffic. He really wanted to. But someone stopped him. It was a man with a strange accent. The stranger was Russian, maybe.

“Don’t do it,” the stranger said.

“Why not?”

“Because your life means more than you think it does.”

Then the homeless man was wrestled to the ground. That was the last thing he remembers. Being pinned to the pavement.

The next morning he awoke with a stiff hangover. But thankfully, he WAS awake. 

Today the former homeless man oversees a community homeless program in an inner city. He owns an apartment. He has a girlfriend. A car. He has been sober for 32 years.

“A lot of people might think the world is falling apart,” he wrote to me. “But they’re wrong. I’ve been on the other side. There’s lots of good people out there.”

And if you don’t believe him, just visit the meat department.