architecture critic @thenation. currently writing about the ring cycle at wehwalt.net
Joined August 2016
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Apr 20
I genuinely think the final edition of this essay is my only real and meaningful contribution to classical music, a thing I have two degrees in and have been participating in since I was four wehwalt.net/walsung3
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this is what hypomania feels like
walking the dog and the pattern reveals itself to me and i yelp and swat it away like a gnat and keep walking
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Genuinely emotional watching Haiti play again in the World Cup. No nation has been so thoroughly & repeatedly spat on and humiliated by the Western world for the crime of demanding its own freedom and self-determination as them. Seeing them back on the global stage is incredible.
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mozart after spending every pay check on 15 new wigs, 10 custom made outfits, a solid gold hairbrush and 25 bottles of wine
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When does Chicago get its Mamdani
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For @thenation’s America 250 issue I wrote about what makes American Architecture so great and yet so appalling at the same time thenation.com/article/cultur…
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Heavy handed postmodern novel vol.2732
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hilarious to use a photo of a skyline that has barely changed in five decades
Jun 13
The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products
Jun 11
It's rare that AI video makes me feel any emotion.
But these "nostalgiamaxxing videos" really do capture what it's like to grow up in the 90's
Credit: homeforchristmasofficial
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Jun 13
They changed the law so he could steal from your parents' retirement accounts to do this by the way
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Two good things, sounds like rent stabilization works great
Jun 11
New paper on the first US statewide rent stabilization law (OR's SB608). Finds that rent stabilization reduces moves by 11–27% & reduces rental supply via condo conversion by 5–6% in covered buildings, even w/ quite permissive rent caps (7% CPI).
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A true innovator in photography. The realest one because he fundamentally distrusted photography as a medium. As a result he squeezed every bit of potential out of it to try to replicate our natural way of seeing. Distrust any artist who loves gear and lenses more than seeing.
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Jun 12
pulled the ebike trigger. I lost the ability to ride a normal one after developing long covid but am determined to get back out there
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Jun 12
if you ran on a platform of doing 1/4 of this in any American city theyd be mailing hard copy AI pics of you fucking animals to everyone in your zip code
Jun 11
Paris looking to increase social housing to 40% of the building stock by 2035 (up from 25% today…)
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This was not true for most of modern history and our time period is exceedingly weird for treating it as normal
Jun 12
Gen Z realizing one of the biggest shocks after college is that life no longer happens around you.
In school, friends, events, relationships, and opportunities are built into your environment.
As an adult, if you don't actively create a social life, weeks can turn into months surprisingly fast.
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No ma’am, I don’t have a boarding pass. I’m simply here to enjoy the world famous dining and nightlife at O’Hare International Airport
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Very little of the world's suffering is caused by "hate." Most of it is from devaluing other people's lives. Bush didn't hate Iraqis, he was just willing to kill half a million of them
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Jun 12
I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China.
I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses.
So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.
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Jun 12
DeLillo in his Art of Fiction interview said it best: "lists are a form of cultural hysteria."
Jun 12
I read a lot of essays like this and feel I have to say something: listing things is not criticism
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