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

When @katewagner.wehwalt.net recently dubbed Trump's Oval Office aesthetic as "Regional Car Dealership Rococo" she was devastatingly correct. www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

If I did a McMansion Hell livestream to raise money for my vision therapy would that be gauche

chicago heads! tomorrow I'm doing a @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social panel with venerated Marxist scholar Doug Spencer about writing about architecture and the weird capitalist juncture we're in now chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/program/nyra...

the absolute freak urge to get a fourth ring cycle tattoo (walhalla burning)

i wrote about having long covid as a hypochondriac and why no one should ever go on reddit www.late-review.com/p/the-galler...

Blatantly retaliatory firing

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

This is a beautiful piece of writing about the intersection of hypochondria, long covid and onlineism scattered with both truisms about societies reaction to covid and illness as well as some very new to me insights and perspectives on illness, anxiety and hypochondria. Very much recommend.

chat, new @katewagner.wehwalt.net just dropped; check your email

I don't say this lightly but I think this is one of the better things ever written about Covid

i wrote about having long covid as a hypochondriac and why no one should ever go on reddit www.late-review.com/p/the-galler...

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

i have a long essay in my drafts that i did over the last week or so about having covid and proceeding to, in a state of mental impairment, believe that i had 50 rare diseases and put like 10 million supplements in my body because of stuff i read online but i think it would get me skinned alive

Kate Wagner: 1 Saudi Arabia: 0

It took long enough but we finally have the first ever WordArt president