anything important happen today while I was Shopping

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

replacing my entire wardrobe with Eileen Fisher month by month. I will wear The Architecture Uniform

The skinniness epidemic in New York is absolutely out of control my god

One of the stupidest and most subtly disastrous culture war battles we lost to the right was that caring about nature is pussy shit and the only respectable way to engage with the earth is to extract from it

One summer, poet Timmy Straw got a temp job working at a sprawling pear archive, which houses thousands of species from dozens of countries. There, he shaped plants for growth, following strangely beautiful instructions. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

Chris Rose won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on Hurricane Katrina for the Times Picayune newspaper—not long after, he ended up as a waiter in the French Quarter. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

damn I missed the moon thing

Part two of my discourses on fascist art is now up @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-535/

A well-received essay may bring you esteem, but it doesn’t pay the bills. Bertrand Cooper describes the disorienting experience of achieving literary success while failing to attain the financial stability required to keep writing. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

People in the publishing industry are weirdly quiet about money. But as Wes Enzinna points out, every literary career is underwritten by some sort of capital, be it from a wealthy family member, a fellowship, or a dubious side gig.

Also, the suicidal penguin scene wouldn’t have a tenth its power without the choice of music, something Herzog has been a master of throughout his career. In this case, a piece by Ukrainian-Russian sacred composer Dmitry Bortniansky, circa 1800: music.youtube.com/watch?v=LWdS...

wrote about Götterdämmerung, the suicide penguin, and the madly problematic yet innovative Luigi Russolo, among other things

TODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the vampiric nature of fascist art. "Despite their ceaseless use of the rhetorical cudgel of 'beauty' to defend their authoritarian obsessions, fascists contribute nothing to art." flaminghydra.com/issue-535/#f...

the rest of the world discovering how aggravating it is to have an RE developer in charge, architects are like YA HELLO

spirit airlines pushed my flight back an hour...should i think about buying a new flight or just hope this one's not cancelled

this woman is unwell

being on your phone 17 hours a day is unbelievable lol

gorsuch bringing up indian law is like when steph pulls up from 30 for the third time in a row

you can directly connect this to how she rails against tech regulation and even people using dumbphones. a world less addicted to phones and social media is not something she can fathom (or in her interest)

bummed out about The Way I Look

Attn All Lovers Of Doggos, Pupperinos & Furbabies—We Are Collecting Your Pets To Send Them To Beautiful Israel Where Theyll Become Champions

he's right

The concept of texting your therapist is deranged to me

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

the thing about writing in depth about classical music vs just vibing the fuck out is that the time per paragraph ratio is totally hosed. it took me half a day to write the passages included in this thread bc tenor clef is demonic

instantly wrecked by this six bars of music every time

solti/vienna walkure might be up there as one of my least favorites. james king has no business singing siegmund. he gets absolutely mogged by regine crespin as sieglinde at any given opportunity

ICYMI: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on Trumpian architecture, Iranian brickwork, McMansions, and the best documentary ever — “Queen of Versailles” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

pov: you are a stupid fucking robot

claude is lowkey amazing if you want to make a website unfortunately

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

I have frankly been so lazy about this kind of thing during my time writing about the ring

just realized this is probably Epstein’s favorite key

I know why but you can’t say it

sitting around with a score in my lap doing fuckin Roman numerals shit we are so back in undergrad and we are so having a terrible time

A-flat minor….underrated

cool it’s not like the world needs social workers and therapists but hey you gotta think about that ROI

if you ban therapists from saying "you should kill yourself", that would be exactly as bad as banning them from saying "you should not kill yourself" i am smart and wise and on the supreme court of the united states of america

8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also there is simply not going to be a Donald Trump presidential library skyscraper in Miami because we are about to experience The Oil Crisis 2

trans day of visibility should have the same gravitas as international women’s day does in post-socialist countries. There should be obligatory flowers and a long lunch

Genuinely feels fucking stupid to have to acknowledge shit like “he may change the capitals on the White House” or “the ballroom will block the view of the capitol building” (as though he plays 4d chess like that) when they are building concentration camps in logistics warehouses

Wotan: ok so you are all alone in the world. You have to renounce the gods and their ways Siegmund: (becomes the nicest guy of all time)

I’m gonna be real with you it is deeply humiliating for me to yoked around by the architectural drives of a dying madman. I have other shit to do and yet I’m at his beck and call

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

You can see videos of Ben Gvir and other Israelis celebrating passing a law to execute Palestinians and then see supposed liberals and leftists of the US afraid to call that state what it is