The radio spots for Vic's learner driver mentor program are telling. They basically start by saying that without your help non-drivers will be never be able to achieve a life with independence & fulfilment. Which is prob true in Melb's increasingly car-dependent outer suburbs.

Just had a lucid dream where I'm reading a 2025 NYT Magazine and the interview section is titled "Joe Biden Isn't Sorry: We Sit Down with the Former President to Talk Aging, Ice Cream, and Phillies Stats".

I think the pink building is dope, but this article—and I realize it's in the Real Estate section—is basically just a press release from the developers. nytimes.com/2024/08/12/rea…

Anne Hidalgo's done great things for Paris but this is not one of them. Olympic rings are a logo like any other. nytimes.com/2024/08/31/wor…

This is just one very small step from Miranda July redecorating her motel room. nytimes.com/2024/08/30/rea…

This is so twisted. Melb property agents encouraging the ultra-rich to buy Deco apt blocks, rip out the units, and turn them into ostentatious mansions. This a block of four solidly built 2-bdrm flats that's 200 m from a tram stop. domain.com.au/1-4-27-leopold…

Question for Aus urban people: is there any history of live-in supers here? I know it's rare in the US (outside NYC) but, in lots of ways, it's a good arrangement. Every week there're ~10 people driving to my blding (40 flats) to do random non-specialised maintenance jobs.

Surely, someone has already built this out of lego, right?

It's kinda crazy how much this pink building has been hyped (it's already on the cover of their monograph?!?) I get it, the floorplans and materials are better than other $2m Bklyn apts, and the color is to 2024 what rose gold was for 2017, but is there more to it?