EHERG / Red
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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
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
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
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.
You do not understand procrastination until you see me WFH on Fridays
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You do not understand procrastination until you see me WFH on Fridays
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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."
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
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
Good morning from Scrappy
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Good morning from Scrappy
...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
...but how will the delivery drivers get around downtown without this opening to cars again? /s
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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“My health insurance premiums are doubling, and all the copays are quadrupling, and nothing goes down.”
outliermedia.org/dwsd-lifelin...
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.
outliermedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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.”
outliermedia.org/dwsd-lifelin...
“My health insurance premiums are doubling, and all the copays are quadrupling, and nothing goes down.”
outliermedia.org/dwsd-lifelin...
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Please please please let me stand on business this week and not fucking procrastinate
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Please please please let me stand on business this week and not fucking procrastinate
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
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
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
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!
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
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"
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
I'm going to vote at 9:30 AM. Any guesses as to what ballot I'll be? I'm guessing number 9.
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
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 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
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
I have no capacity to do my work today, but I do have the capacity to look through maps from the 1890s. What gives?