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Probably writing about something stupid or riding my bike somewhere dumb. I like making maps.
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This week’s video is on Odell’s Lounge on Chene Street, which burned in September, and, more broadly, the issue of arson in Detroit. Check it out: youtu.be/T4UR0YoxrJg
Why Detroit Keeps Burning
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Getting older feels like having incrementally less time for the things you like until you die. If you're lucky, you might get a few unfettered years of it when you retire.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
You do not understand procrastination until you see me WFH on Fridays
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I wanted some hazelnut spread but its so cold in our house that it was hard to spread so I put it on the heating vent and the cat started licking the container
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This week’s video is on St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church and, more generally, what happened to the #Catholic Church in #Detroit between its founding in 1701 and the modern era, which has been plagued by closures. Check it out: youtu.be/66AjwEP32jM
What Happened To The Catholic Church In Detroit?
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It is official; I opted for the more expensive health plan from work this year. It's still a garbage plan, but if you see me at all in 2026, slap me in the face and tell me to go to the doctor so I don't waste my money.
two cats are playing on a white couch and one is standing on its hind legs
ALT: two cats are playing on a white couch and one is standing on its hind legs
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December 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sometimes I feel like the goofiest goober in town. I wish I enjoyed my day job as much as I do filming stuff like this! Coming to YouTube on Friday.
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Some of Detroit’s oldest homes are hiding in plain sight. This week’s video is on a 19th-century home that was later converted into a church and awaits redevelopment. Check it out: youtu.be/nXpbHxD7byw
Detroit’s Oldest Homes Are Hiding In Plain Sight
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I want to see more people getting cameras instead of phones. They're so much better, and you can get into a solid used system for cheap in 2025
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In my video yesterday, I said, "They were promised 6,000 new manufacturing jobs, which, in an era where good-paying jobs were fleeing the city faster than racist whites, was attractive to politicians."
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Over the last few years, we’ve lost some of my favorite old signage. This week’s video is on LIP-PAN TV, a Chene Street institution that had cool signs until last year. Check it out: youtu.be/0xuA6ppn7EI #Detroit #GhostSign
Detroit’s Last VCR Repair Shop (& Best Ghost Signs)
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Good morning from Scrappy
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
...but how will the delivery drivers get around downtown without this opening to cars again? /s
Alterations to Spirit Plaza before Council's Planning & Economic Dev committee at this morning.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by EHERG / Red
This line about reductions in Detroit's water affordability plan really hit home:

“My health insurance premiums are doubling, and all the copays are quadrupling, and nothing goes down.”

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DWSD’s new water payment plan is smaller and more expensive
DWSD opened applications for its new water payment assistance program, but it’s more exclusive and expensive.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Every year that I have to sit through a bullshit open enrollment info session for my low-paying job inches me towards a complete fucking crash out
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I can only imagine what it would be like to see this plant for the first time over 100 years ago. It must have felt like a city within a city. Only to be replaced by a monstrosity that ate up some 400+ acres of land (and a neighborhood). Give the @detroithistorical.bsky.social a follow!
On November 14, 1914, John and Horace Dodge built the first Dodge automobile - the four-cylinder Dodge Model 30 - at their production facility in Hamtramck. This sketch shows "Dodge Main" as it looked upon completion in 1914.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Two Sides of the Trail | December 2019

Shot with a Yashica 124 TLR I had just inherited and Kodak TriX 400. Somewhere in Genesee County. I just got this camera out again and hope to use it in the next few weeks.
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Detroit once operated three municipal farmers' markets simultaneously. This week’s video is on the Chene Ferry Market and how it was systematically destroyed in the 1980s. Check it out: youtu.be/9OLSKVmQBCI
How Detroit Killed A Neighborhood | Chene-Ferry Market
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please please please let me stand on business this week and not fucking procrastinate
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This week’s video is on the First German Methodist Episcopal Church on Gratiot in #Detroit, which was built between 1891 and 1892. It became the Church of God in the early 1930s to serve black Detroiters on the outskirts of Black Bottom. Check it out: youtu.be/1imP9so-kUk
Own A Piece of Detroit History For $450,000
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's 6:30 PM and I haven't even recorded the audio for, let alone started editing, my YouTube video that comes out at 9:45 AM. Let's see how this turns out!
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
To celebrate today's events, I've started an argument with a friend from high school's mom on Facebook after she called Mamdani an "Islamic terrorist"
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm going to vote at 9:30 AM. Any guesses as to what ballot I'll be? I'm guessing number 9.
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Before Detroit built cars, it built stoves. This week’s video is on the Art Stove Company, a smaller but profitable corporation that operated a massive factory, which was later destroyed by I-75. Check it out: youtu.be/q2Edj5lqAG4
Before Cars, What Did Detroit Make?
YouTube video by This Building Matters
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October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have no capacity to do my work today, but I do have the capacity to look through maps from the 1890s. What gives?
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM