Rudolf and Klaus Krüger, Brother Church, Düsseldorf-Bilk (1970, demolished 2020)

All day every day

Pride and Prejudice (Austen) Jane Eyre (C. Brontë) Life After Life (Atkinson) Cloud-Cuckoo Land (Doerr) Small Island (Levy) The Blue Castle (Montgomery) The Plot against America (Roth) The Child from the Sea (Goudge) Little Women (Alcott) Crazy Rich Asians (Kwan)

All the Light We Cannot See All the Pretty Horses Einstein’s Dreams The English Patient The Kite Runner The Museum Guard The Name of the Rose Reading in the Dark The Unbearable Lightness of Being Underworld

For reasons impossible to explain I have discovered the First Prize at the 1935 Hairdressing Fashion Show in London

#240: Helmut Duncker, St. Heribert, Leichlingen, 1975

Buzzati - The Stronghold Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop Christie - And Then There Were None Forster - Howard’s End Grossman - Life and Fate Manzoni - The Betrothed Hughes - The Expendable Man Lewis - Babbitt Lowry - Under the Volcano Tolstoy - War and Peace

Austen: Persuasion Zola: The Kill James: The Ambassadors Dreiser: Sister Carrie Woolf: To the Lighthouse Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop Sebald: Austerlitz Murdoch: The Unicorn Hollinghurst: The Swimming Pool Library Bellow: Ravelstein

More Wuppertalposting… showing my appreciation for the Friedrich Engels house (and learning that it’s surprisingly hard to take a photo of your other hand thumbs-upping)

I cannot emphasize enough how glorious this church is

Ich geh zum Wuppertaler Fingergunjuwelier braucht ihr irgendwas

Portis, MASTERS OF ATLANTIS & TRUE GRIT Peake, GORMENGHAST Vance, THE EYES OF THE OVERWORLD & THE GREEN PEARL one by Chandler, maybe THE LADY IN THE LAKE Le Guin, EARTHSEA (counting the first 3 as 1) Jansson, MOOMINPAPPA AT SEA Eddison, THE WORM OUROBOROS Melville, MOBY-DICK Vonnegut, CAT'S CRADLE

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji Kadare, The General of the Dead Army Jergović, Walnut Mansion Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift Pamuk, The Black Book Calvino, Invisible Cities J. Roth, Radetzkymarsch J. Bator, Dark, Almost Night Yang Shuang-zi, Taiwan Travelogue

Athenian jurors STYMIED as I take a big gulp from the cup marked "Dr Pepper" instead of the one marked "hemlock"

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

#249: Church of Thomas, Cologne (Community Center Leonhard Schulze & Ludwig Hesse, 1965-68; church by Ludwig Groth, 1987)

Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night DeLillo, Libra Richler, Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Salih, A Season of Migration to the North Engel, Bear Roy, God of Small Things Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress Melville, Moby-Dick Austen, Emma Chaudhuri, Afternoon Raag J.L. Carr is a great shout too

Dostoevsky, The Brothers K Eliot, Silas Marner Austen, Pride & Prejudice Bellow, Adventures of Augie March Ishiguro, The Unconsoled Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping DeWitt, The Last Samurai Don Quixote Moby-Dick Morrison, Song of Solomon

Cronon, Changes in the Land Kubler, Shape of Time Donahue, Great Meadow Hayden, Grand Domestic Revolution Stoll, Larding the Lean Earth Panofsky, Gothic Art + Scholasticism Pauly, Fruits and Plains Merchant, Ecological Revolutions Wright, Moralism + the Model Home Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revs

Coetzee, Disgrace Ishiguro, Remains of the Day Mistry, A Fine Balance McEwan, Atonement Forster, A Passage to India Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being Byatt, Possession Woolf, Mrs Dalloway Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

No particular order Ragtime Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Lonesome Dove The Great Gatsby Moby-Dick Wolf Hall Golden Hill The Age of Innocence Lincoln in the Bardo

Cronon, Nature's Metropolis B. Moore, Kindred Spirits Banham, Arch. of the Well-tempered env't Durth, Biographische Verflechtungen Deloria, Playing Indian Chauncey, Gay New York Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape Davis, City of Quartz G. Fehl, Kleindach... M. Klauser, Ikonische Kirchen

OK folks I wanna see those top 10 novels lists (which I will never ever hold you accountable for)

It is 8:30 am On a Saturday In New Orleans And the line to sign the #recall for #JeffLandry is a block long already

JL Carr, A Month in the Country T Morrison, Beloved A Powell, Dance to the Music of Time Ursula Krechel, Landgericht J Roth, Die Kapuzinergruft Meja Mwangi, Going Down River Road Geoff Dyer, but beautiful Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment Dickens, Great Expectations Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

I’ve been saying for a while that a silver lining of AI’s aggressive colonizing march into education has been to make a lot of us say, “now wait a minute, and what about all that other edtech… like LMS’s” — the latter effectively critiqued here with a call to dump them, all of them.

Me putting the finishing touches on my LinkedIn profile.

Wise words from Costanza

In no specific order: Perec, La Vie mode d‘emploi Virginia Woolf, The Waves Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina Uwe Johnson, Jahrestage Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy Joyce, Ulysses Natalia Ginzburg, Die Stimmen des Abends DFW, Infinite Jest

So the Guardian made a new list of the 100 best novels, asking a lot of contributors to choose their 10 best novels. So just for fun, and in no order or pretense to correctness, here’s my list:

What is going on with his look

(Gianni Infantino explaining the World Cup to Americans) so imagine 104 Super Bowls

Mein Therapeut: Nein, der Chad-Luther ist nicht real. Er kann Ihnen nichts tun. Der Chad-Luther in question:

Peter Fox echt immer noch banger

They should build a facsimile at The Villages

So sometimes a church can just be a really good wall

Hab von der Urban Sports Warteliste einen Sportkurs gebucht der Grind hört nie auf

Did not realize that this church is in a retirement community

a personal favorite 📍edward dart’s first saint paul’s lutheran, 1301 n. la salle in chicago

Obligatory “I rode the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn” post

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

So sometimes a church can just be a really good wall

Ich geh zum Wuppertaler Fingergunjuwelier braucht ihr irgendwas

#248: Joachim Georg Hanke and Marc Hénard, St. Josef, Bünde (1967, renovated by schmersal | biermann | prüßner 2018)

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

"warum heißt es italien und nicht italie warum heißt es albanien und nicht albanie warum heißt es münchen und nicht münche das ist doch immer nur EIN land oder EINE stadt" -"wir meinten eigentlich haben sie noch fragen zum JOB?"

I was literally saying this morning that in the last 25 years the male beauty standard has gone from “guy who goes to the gym regularly” to “sub-10% body fat freak” and it’s super damaging

I was watching videos from the late 90s / early 2000s and I don't think we talk enough about how the current standard for male beauty is men using steroids or how much that dynamic is for the male gaze.