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professors of economics not making it through first year studio, sad!
I love incisive architectural analysis
makes u think
I remember it my singing the first words in Ferrandoâs voice: la mia Dorabella, then take it from there
I think it holds up, plus you get John Carradine as the scary Owl & then Derek Jacobi giving the intense monologue on the rats: youtu.be/1OV3T6GWhIg?...
did a patching compound write this article
okay but imagine if Tom Hayden had had a podcast
Hardie is about 3x as much as stucco iirc
sometimes things are just really ugly though fr
where is Aldo Rossi, we need you
deeply irritating to know a lot more about classical architecture than these bowtied yahoos & yet
dignified housing is when your home gains $150k a year untaxed
hold my cappuccino
Santa Ana is larger than Pittsburgh or Cincinnati!
they didn't call it Klanaheim for nothing
the OC can hardly be called exurban though
Victorville is juuuuuust west of El Paso
tired: Mies wired: The Corbster inspired: Colin Lucas
& he had a cute butt to be fair
The SFV's separatist movement was spurred in large part by school busing, which, lol
have we heard from AHF yet though
right, what was striking was how satisfied she was of her actions she was without realizing how shockingly bad they were, just a total misalignment
In my neighborhood the otherwise decent councilwoman did "outreach" & learned from "stakeholders" (small business owners) that they didn't want a bus lane so she nixed it; hard to skew that as left-anything
I think that's right!
somehow this is Le Corbusier's fault
I'd push back & say she's not 'left-NIMBY' but simply NIMBY, she didn't use any real social justice language but just said homeowners should be able to shrink affordable housing projects if they don't like them
you mean separately? make sense since they're doing essentially different roles
like a Wälsung
white vinyl being marginally cheaper than dark bronze is a big tell on these guys
okay I'm a NIMBY now
fair enough! christ that's bad
yes, we even call it cementitious plaster when we're being technical
it's well known that quality of life plummets when homeowners are brutally forced to look at four story buildings
people are calling Padilla a left-NIMBY here but she makes it very clear her job is to use ~community outreach~ to reduce the number of affordable hsng units built on behalf of local landowners so what do you think would happen if it were actually public housing?
Local control (the locals demand more housing)!
I'm still stuck on this: when she says "big ugly cement box" does she mean ... stucco?
For some people itâs very important that we build less affordable housing lest it offend the delicate sensibilities of the homeowner class
hahahaha
I recently saw Patrick Ball in the bonkers Robert OâHara Hamlet & he was stellar; the gravedigger scene came off very well
Havenât seen that one!
Jack Lemmon appears too and is awful
Billy Crystal is the gravedigger, Ken Dodd is Yorick
Jacobi is terrific too, as is (oddly enough!) Charlton Heston
Even if you donât like it, it probably has the most stacked cast of all time. Gielgud, Depardieu, Christie, and Robin Williams in one film that also has Billy Crystal? Itâs a party
Itâs good, actually
youtu.be/RI6ChQJSCJI?...
Absolutely aces score by William Walton
well at least they werenât duplexes, thank god our bravest housing soldiers saved us from that
Why is the rent so damn high in LA? Simple economics: the demand for housing is extremely high and our housing supply is extremely low.
Really hating the way I identify w/ Fricka today
cc @katewagner.wehwalt.net Iâm going full nerd
recent acquisition
If you live in California and want SB 79 to pass... CALL YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER TODAY comment with your zip code and I'll reply with their office's phone number
90016
THE LAND USE PATTERNS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE THE PROBLEM, RICK!
Come to LA in the spring!!
or at, say, Disney Hall (also with Howard's Hunding, McCorkle's Siegmund, and Sarah! Saturnino's! Frick!) in the Gehry show next spring
how was Green?
Putting this here because I love you parterre.com/2025/08/12/a...
Kate I am so happy for you!!!
YEEESSSSS
the hoes here being the entire framing industry?
Now, a new open-access publication, âEd Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, Cityâ, explores the iconic project. From urban planning, to architecture, musicology, and geography. Take a trip down the Sunset Strip: www.getty.edu/publications...
they didnât deserve Bonin
you could still (& probably should) have an elevator but no needed interior corridor
LA City Council ⌠doing something good? What is this feeling
(This fits with the âAls junger Liebe Lust mir verblichâ bit too)
In my version Wotan & Alberich were cute boyfriends until W gave his eye for the spear & left him for Fricka & thatâs why Alberich is so pissed
not to me <3
definitely Tarnhelm; Mime himself says Alberich made the ring and only he would've been able to given what happened in Scene 1 I'd think
wait what
that's right
The City of LA, embarrassingly, voted yesterday to oppose #SB79 (legalizing housing near transit). Watch this incredible rebuttal from @cd4losangeles.bsky.social, where she says that the city isn't acting in good faith to address the housing crisis, & that state intervention has been necessary.
wait did I really never post this one
Monica Rodriguez says abolish rent
no doubt John Lee is concerned about tenant protections
lol
Itâs coming along but itâll be all four stories tops
Gavin Newsom Revenge Tour seems deeply gratifying I also hate myself
omg this is absolutely savage lmao
Iâve never been more turned on
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the Lehnhoff Ring ends with Loge alone among the wreckage; he straightens out a bust & spins a globe and walks off stage
Oh I donât mean what Iâm into I meant me (alas!)
twinks with beards *louder* TWINKS with BEARDS
big Berlioz mood
Cruising. Rather a lost art nowadaysâbut in its post-Stonewall-pre digital 90s heyday, the chance encounters of cruising was one of the charms that drew me & millions of others to NYC & SF. The pre-AIDS Christopher St. sidewalks of the late 70s-early 80s were packed with herds of hot, horny men. đ
"what if I were a sensitive romantic but also a counterpoint nerd - no not Brahms ffs"
youtu.be/_EEynnAGBhs?...
have I got some cello sonatas for you
WAIT IS KATE GETTING ON THE SAINT-SAĂNS TRAIN
the economic theory of "BrĂźnnhilde's Dilemma"
The uniquely North American idea that single family areas are sacrosanct was spread by for reasons that are a mix of good intentions, profit, neurosis, and rank racism. You can't address housing issues in this country without deconstructing the primacy of the SFH.
Imagining this dude having an absolute stroke halfway through Women in Love
I donât think youâre supposed to be watching podcasts
Who could have predicted
âIf you DONâT change the physical character of your community, you WILL change the demographic and economic character of your community.â - William Fulton at the Casita Coalitionâs Build The Middle National Housing Convening
