11-1-2026 MY FAVES: october culture meter
october culture meter what i'm reading... i finished reading the dec/jan 1986 edition of unique homes. there’s something so enchanting about seeing homes full of character, with amazing references and state of the art technology (for 80s standards). im sick of seeing people nowadays gutting homes like these and turning them into ikea storefronts or faux bougie residences, yet the bed seems like it’s made out of cardboard. there's no soul, no passion, no artistry. just bland greyscale that seems too polished, too waspy, too clean. is this really a home? i’m pretty sure another boring set of cheaply made ryan homes development is being built a couple streets past me, and i dread knowing we won’t be seeing any ‘adobe villas of timeless enchantment’ any time soon. i started reading a scandinavian psychological thriller translated in croatian: soba zla (room of evil) by a writer duo under one pseudonym erik axl sund . the scandinavian thrillers are always so cold, calculated an...