Ich habe die Architekturkritikerin @katewagner.wehwalt.net aus Chicago gefragt, ob sie uns für den STANDARD aufschreibt, was es mit dem Ostflügel und dem Ballsaal auf sich hat, und sie hat es getan: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I keep having bad glasses discipline and then wondering why I keep getting headaches

there’s nothing better than a nap where you straight up just pass out for an hour

im going to be the first person with adult adhd to be successfully treated with guanfacine monotherapy. I can feel it.

i know there have been a dozen trendy water bottles in at least as many years but it's crazy how much better the owala one is than all of them

my glasses prescription is Right for desktop and Wrong for laptop. devastating

hello everyone, my friend Ben from my wild Baltimore days has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer — he’s a really great and funny guy and could use some help bc the healthcare system in this country is so fucked up. It would mean the world if you donated: gofund.me/1cac6030e

does anyone have any recs for electrolyte powder that doesn’t taste like candy? I feel like I’m getting cavities at this point

why is it that whenever I wake up even from a nap my body is so sore

NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...

i have a giant siegfried poster and don't want to find out how much it costs to frame

the long covid clinic at northwestern is genuinely so helpful and wonderful. it's good to talk to doctors who Know About the Disease

collector's edition of learning from las vegas, phaidon ring cycle box set

The ruling class is dumb and we let them take everything we make and live lives of disgusting opulence and cruelty We need socialism immediately

NEW MCMANSION HELL: CHUD ATLANTIS mcmansionhell.com/post/8002175...

i am basically living with untreated adhd now and wow this was a hell i'd put in remission for like 20 years

now why do i have brain fog today

Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...

has anyone here been to cognitive rehabilitation? if so what were your experiences (my neurologist recommended it to me)

liberals like to peg my writing as marxist (which it is, in political sentiment and orientation) but real ball knowers can see that it's actually undergirded by a cursed combination of sartre and benjamin that tries to sound like adorno

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

The most interesting thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that it was built and owned by Northwestern Mutual. Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.

Chicago's largest buildings are breaking emissions laws, costing the city nearly $35 million in uncollected fines! Buildings over 50,000 sqft are required to report their emissions, but thousands haven't, and have faced none of the penalties. Contact your alder to help at electrifychicago.net/act

What if – windows that kept sound out?

can’t get over how incredible the new CharliXCX song is. I’ve listened to it like 20 times

This is fantastic

i wrote about why i am obsessed with going to the eye doctor api.omarshehata.me/substack-pro...

I LOVED this piece on the optometrist by Kate and all the eye-based allegories. It got me thinking about Ruskin's 'innocent eye' and furore it subsequently incited in the art history world. Or the eye in Un Chien Andalou, a scene from a 1929 film that I still believe to be the apex of body horror.

i wrote about why i am obsessed with going to the eye doctor api.omarshehata.me/substack-pro...

bad time to need lots of healthcare

going to get back into basketball this winter...does anyone know how to watch bulls games online if you're in chicago. i don't want to pay for youtube tv

This is so good!!!!!

i wrote about the old wieboldt's department store on milwaukee in wicker park—fire, labor strife, leveraged buyouts, and the idiotic urban renewal plan that leveled much of the surroundings for a 600+ car parking lot and a jewel osco in the early 1980s www.postcard-past.com/wieboldts-de...

huge news for the worst architects you know

the thing about substack is if you publish an essay on sunday nobody will read it bc it's email

i am in a strange liminal recovery space where i've started to be able to write with some competency and yet my ability to read is still utter dogshit. my optometrist is convinced this is an eye problem. you wouldn't believe what turns out to be eye problems, he says

Six inches of snow?????

Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

the brain is so fascinating because I have had brain injury insomnia for the last 9 months and then a few weeks ago it literally went away. Like I go to sleep at 10:30pm every night like clockwork

this happened to me during the pandemic and we did wages for housework (i was the wages he was the housework)

I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)

my optometrist is convinced that my neurological problems are a conspiracy of my eyes. it would be so sick if that were true. i hope ur right dr tom

crisis averted my insurance came thru

my dude is firing the wrong people

today!!

ever since writing that piece i have been experiencing (mostly on x) what i can only describe as health anxiety denialism

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

Wotan had convergence insufficiency