Josh Feit

I’m All Lost In, #120: Elevators as transit infrastructure; the NYT’s latest Trump failure; Doo-wop reels; and a fortnight of Australian Open nights. — Josh Feit's Poetry I was reading a book by the light of my iPhone. The couple next to me was quietly doing origami.

Lee dropped his video on behalf of local pro-housing group @sightline.org . They teamed up to make the case that the clunky elevators dictated by current code are incompatible with producing the relatively smaller mode of multi-family housing needed to increase housing stock.

I used to be fond of telling my news team "There are no metaphors, only results." But I was wrong: There are metaphors, there are. (And results too it would seem.) @ericacbarnett.bsky.social, @Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

I’m All Lost In, #120: Elevators as transit infrastructure; the NYT’s latest Trump failure; Doo-wop reels; and a fortnight of Australian Open nights. — Josh Feit's Poetry I was reading a book by the light of my iPhone. The couple next to me was quietly doing origami.

The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

... And the @nytimes.com shows its willingness to continue to make a fool of itself. The FBI search doesn't "show" Trump's "willingness to..." blah blah blah. Trump is pursuing his 2020 grievances. And he's been pursuing them outright since November 2020.

Australian Open on Instagram: "Our ballkids are better than your ballkids 🎾 #AO26" 65K likes, 340 comments - australianopen on January 25, 2026: "Our ballkids are better than your ballkids 🎾 #AO26".

Our ball kids are Better than your ball kids.

The obvious is example is historic, enforcing school desegregation during 1the 1950s and early 1960s. The only other examples, which are right wing dream scenarios, are the feds against individuals not states. Randy Weaver etc.

I’m All Lost In, #119: Apartment accoutrements; subway synechdoce; and the #12 bus. — Josh Feit's Poetry It’s a very new wave notion that the artificial article would be more authentic than the original. But indeed: The grandchildren of 1980s synth pop have it down to a science.

I wrote a mini-essay titled "Subway Synecdoche." It starts : ”The trains were free./ I mean: No one checked your ticket.” Those are the breathtaking concluding lines to Richie Hofmann’s cascading city poem Men’s Beds where the subway stands in for city values in general ... #poetry

I’m All Lost In, #119: Apartment accoutrements; subway synechdoce; and the #12 bus. — Josh Feit's Poetry It’s a very new wave notion that the artificial article would be more authentic than the original. But indeed: The grandchildren of 1980s synth pop have it down to a science.

I write a micro-essay called Subway Synecdoche. It's about the Richie Hofmann poem that ran in the 1/19/26 NYer. This lovely city poem closes with these breathtaking lines: "The trains were free./ I mean: No one checked your ticket." Scroll down here:

I’m All Lost In, #119: Apartment accoutrements; subway synechdoce; and the #12 bus. — Josh Feit's Poetry It’s a very new wave notion that the artificial article would be more authentic than the original. But indeed: The grandchildren of 1980s synth pop have it down to a science.

The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

"Our columnist writes" is clunky and undercuts the impact of the headline, I post on Bluesky.

Fun Fact: The last person to invade Denmark was Adolf Hitler.

Great matches in Melbourne; anti-housing in Seattle; the vegan menu at 19th & Jackson — Josh Feit's Poetry Asking Metro to run bus lines to a currently sparse street as a prerequisite for future density would be a comically inefficient use of Metro dollars.

Oh my. The lead from a post this time last year: "Their conversational sonics ended in a feedback crescendo when they crawled toward one another and pressed their Fisher-Price handhelds together in a musical kiss."

Loved how light rail gate crashed the TV shot during the Australian Open coverage yesterday....

I’m All Lost In, #118: Private Symbolism; Protest Urbanism; Coffee Oriented Development. — Josh Feit's Poetry Reimagined as rebar for resistance.

I write about the idea here (scroll down to the item on urban resistance."

Urban infrastructure is often reimagined as rebar for resistance. Buses of Montgomery. Hi-jinxed street signs of Prague vs Soviet tanks. A gay bar rope-a-doping cops on Christopher St. Today, Kyiv’s subway as bomb shelters. “‘The streetcar sympathized with us,’” Wilson quotes one Warsaw memoir.

I’m All Lost In, #118: Private Symbolism; Protest Urbanism; Coffee Oriented Development. — Josh Feit's Poetry Reimagined as rebar for resistance.

This week's obsessions roundup LINK IN BIO also comes with an X > Y (x is greater than y) report. Three of them: Allowing Housing in Residential Zones > Allowing Housing in Commercial Zones; Woke History > Trump’s Fake History; and The # 8 > The L8.

I’m All Lost In, #118: Private Symbolism; Protest Urbanism; Coffee Oriented Development. — Josh Feit's Poetry Reimagined as rebar for resistance.

I'm All Lost In. The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

Classic Catherine hilarity. And I'm as bewildered as her. Even funnier, neither David nor Matt offered an explanation.

“Who on earth is Luciano Darderi ? and how is he 22nd in the world?” —Catherine Whitaker, the Tennis Podcast, 1/15/26 @thetennispodcast.bsky.social

Vote In Or Out 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson points to Minneapolis as a turning point. After ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good, the Trump administration surged more fe... 46K likes, 578 comments - voteinorout on January 14, 2026: "Historian #HeatherCoxRichardson points to Minneapolis as a turning point. After ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good, the Trump ad...

Anti-urbanism will be their undoing. Warsaw. Leningrad. Hitler's generals warned him. I point you to Ch. 12 in Ben Wilson's history of cities, Metropolis. They will ultimately lose in Minneapolis. They already are. www.instagram.com/p/DThCdVkjK3...

You'd think they'd won a Pulitzer. You guys. Interviewing the president is what you do. It's your job. This fawning over yourselves (and the president) is not classy. Save the navel gazing for your therapist.

I’m All Lost In, #117: The NYT loses the plot; congestion pricing wins; and I’m still on vacation. — Josh Feit's Poetry If you’ll allow me, I’d like to become that wild-eyed social critic from the famous scene in Network for just a second.

God bless @NYTPitchbot for routinely saving me from becoming the wild-eyed crank in the famous “I’m mad as hell” scene in Network. But if you'll allow me, I’d like to become the wild-eyed crank in the famous scene from Network for a second ...

I’m All Lost In, #117: The NYT loses the plot; congestion pricing wins; and I’m still on vacation. — Josh Feit's Poetry If you’ll allow me, I’d like to become that wild-eyed social critic from the famous scene in Network for just a second.

I'm All Lost In... the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.

First tournament of the year winding down. You'll notice: No Anisimova, no Rybakina, no Andreeva in the late round. But one player always seems to be there. : )

Not sure why everyone is calling this the rematch of the AO Final. That already happened:

The next time a Trump mob storms the Capitol to overturn an election it will be ICE. : (

Well we could try running on joy... as Harris and Walz did... and...

I can imagine the Stephen Millers of the world feeling righteous about the Good murder, thinking: "Burn on the woke left. They're always complaining 'This wouldn't have happened if she was white. Well, see, we're not racists. We can gun down whites too if we want.'" ....

Armed Federal agents gunned down a woman during a show of force in a U.S. city. Isn't this the milita-right wing's longstanding nightmare scenario. What say you children of Randy Weaver?