the “altitude is all in your mind” commentary got me to change over to telemundo

all housing is interesting and let's leave it at that

hmm do i want to write about die walküre again

Yakub’s football beast gives Norway one of its greatest ever victories… he’s now being flown back in a refrigerated cargo plane to the fjord cave in which he dwells to replenish his energy after enduring such dangerous humidity; he will be flown back in time for the quarterfinal

NOOOOO THAT'S MY SON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Believe it or not, there's a rich history to the monuments and water features the president is painting. So, I've started putting together a scholarly bibliography for the design of the National Mall. It's heavy on my interests, so if you see I've missed something, let me know in the replies! 🗃️

one day I will stop writing short stories about the deep psychosexual evil embedded in the nuclear family however those are the stories that keep getting published

What makes American architecture American? @katewagner.wehwalt.net in @thenation.com

first as farce then as farce

I think part of this comes from having finished doing essays on the ring (for now) which means I can finally just enjoy the music lol

im actually so ready for bayreuth

calling it munich bc i always spell bayerische wrong

Oh my fucking god

it's amazing how effective the ring can be when directors play it straight with a dynamic set and rich staging. makes you realize how much you've been starving in the realm of abstraction/irony/innuendo

watched the munich staatsoper's walküre today on streaming and it has to be a top 5 staging of all time for me

Burbank, Illinois @katewagner.wehwalt.net

Planning a Fourth of July road trip? We recommend you listen to @katewagner.wehwalt.net's episode on McMansions, the Trump aesthetic, and gentrification architecture. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

i will be posting mcmansion hell about this

i hate this website so much

not to be a cop but i almost saw the cyclist in front of me get annihilated bc he insisted on trying to skip out on a red light. if i followed his lead i def would have died. i know it's morally superior to ride a bike but everyone benefits from everyone else behaving predictably in traffic

we live in mcmansion hell @katewagner.wehwalt.net

new short story is set in a mcmansion family

I see drivers flagrantly run this red every time I pass this intersection, without fail. I sometimes cross here and it scares me. Thank you, Obama and CDOT, for these wonderful "Jackson Park Improvements" that have made it even less safe to traverse the park except on very limited paths.

bought a random shiny sticker of a giant gay swan in space for my water bottle and my husband was like is this about lohengrin and i was like no it's about how we live in swan world. i didn't elaborate

ok im listening

look whatever bugs bunny made you think this opera is about it is not about that

my therapist says i would be happier if i found queer community but idk what that means tbh

in its actual context it's amazing how fucking macabre the ride of the valkyries is

Apollo is such a dick. i think i’ve hated him since i was nine years old

if you want to turbo lose faith in humanity check out r/doordash

saw a post on reddit that was like gay transplants are gentrifying rogers park. sorry but that's not happening. what you're describing is 'seeing more gay people in the neighborhood', something which tends to happen in the month of june

Paying a pantload and a half to get the parking meters back under the city's control would be so much better than letting it go to yet another private equity firm, especially given that this time it would be one that also profits off of ICE human trafficking flights.

it really pisses me off when people use neurodivergence to excuse bad behavior. i understand struggling with things like boundaries but when someone does assert their boundary (and this is the most common example) the correct answer is not to treat that as some kind of ableism

it's extremely funny

love this tbh. they rarely honor god otherwise

I haven't been able to stop thinking about @katewagner.wehwalt.net's most recent essay, and if you haven't had a chance to read it yet, make the time to do so.

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wrote about how we live in rape world

TODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on fascist aesthetics, part III, and the hatred of women. "Perhaps only neoliberalism could have produced the incel, for whom the idea of men not getting enough sex from women constitutes a social crisis" flaminghydra.com/r/5f0cacfa?m...

What if I told you we could have it all?

Highly recommend listening to this: @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @katewagner.wehwalt.net talking about the aesthetics of fascism. Wagner's remark that 'the aesthetic of fascism is rape' just summed up something I've been trying to get at for years. thebrooklyninstitute.com/podcasts/pod...

Complaining about the arch / complaining about AI in schools this afternoon seems like two sides of the same coin. i.e. There are no shortcuts in art and don't let powerful people tell you that there are.

listening to a lot of pavement lately. very summertime vibes

damn maybe i should be watching the world cup instead of answering emails

architecturally speaking the lakeview/roscoe village area is probably my least favorite in chicago

my mental health has increased fivefold since moving four blocks from the lake

I don't really see this improving in the next few years, especially for low-income families

Sorry to go full clickbait, but the third paragraph of my latest column is my favorite paragraph I’ve written in basically forever www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...