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

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!

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.

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?

Here’s a snippet from my video on the Southwest #Detroit Hospital, which will soon be demolished to make way for the new Detroit City FC stadium. I had to nerf this to 480p resolution to fit on BlueSky, so watch the full 9-minute and 33-second video in 4k: youtu.be/LGrpu5bnH4A

This week’s video dives into the history between the 1890s and today on the plot of land where Detroit City FC plans to demolish the Southwest Detroit Hospital and build a brand new 15,000-seat stadium. Check it out: youtu.be/LGrpu5bnH4A

If you feel like diving down a rabbit hole this evening, I got a lot of joy from this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkfQ...

You thought that I’d go to the Pupusería y Restaurante Salvadoreño and not share it on Bluesky? Really? You thought wrong.

Detroit Department of Transportation Performance Dashboard for September 2025: Average Weekday Pullouts AM: 166 / 184 (90%) PM: 179 / 200 (90%) Weekday Actual Pull-Outs AM: 83% PM: 63% Weekday System-Wide Operational Services AM: 74% PM: 64% Monthly Ridership: 1,348,031

This week’s video is on Frank’s Hall in Detroit’s Delray neighborhood, which dates back to 1887 and housed Fox Hardware for decades. Today, it’s home to one of the only active businesses in Delray. Check it out: youtu.be/J_4Nokk6sro

This is probably my favorite drone clip so far. I didn’t include it in tomorrow’s YouTube video, but this building is the topic of the video. Hopefully, I’ll include some drone shots in next week’s video. This is a 1080p export so that the file could be uploaded to #Detroit Bluesky.

The new drone certainly isn’t good in low light, but I think I’ll have a lot of fun with this thing. In frame: St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church in #Detroit, built 1918~1930, closed in 1989, reopened as St. Augustine and St. Monica Catholic Church in 1990. Designed by Donaldson and Meier.

Here’s the difference between taking the ‘safe’ route using greenways and taking 'less safe' surface streets in #Detroit that are already wide enough to accommodate bike infrastructure (but don’t) from my home to work.

I came into possession of a drone. The first thing I did with it? Flew it into a wall. GET. ON. MY. LEVEL. (it survived, don't worry)

This new multi-use path in Delray alongside Jefferson is SO lovely. Can we please do this along every spoke street in the city?! This one only exists because of the new bridge; this is one of the least populated corners of #Detroit

The first annual Poletown East Community Yard Sales in #Detroit are tomorrow (Sunday)! There will be lots of events in the neighborhood all day. More info: www.eherg.com/poletown-eas...

This week’s video is on the St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was completed in 1873 in Detroit’s #Corktown Neighborhood. It later became Assemble Sound, a music company, and was sold to Ford in 2023. Check it out: youtu.be/_pzXOraq-4w

Looking for buildings to highlight on my page. Is there a building in #Detroit that anyone wants to know more about?

I dream of a day when Elmwood Cemetery and Mt. Elliott Cemetery make a path between the two so I can cycle from the Kercheval bike lanes to the Campau/Archer Greenway without spending much time on busy roads.

This week’s video is about the Round Bar, a Chene Street institution known around town as having the best dill pickle soup. Today, only the structure remains, but there are two ways to get the soup. Check it out: youtu.be/g9Iyeea4gR4

Apex Bar (b.~1910) Detroit, Wayne County Michigan. North End. On the north end of Detroit's old Black entertainment district. John Lee Hooker was a regular performer here through the 1960's. #photography #architecture #oldbuildings #bars #blues #mono #monochrome #bnw #detroit #wayne #michigan

I work right next to the SW Greenway, and there were mounted police there today. I was shocked to see the officer get off the horse every time it took a shit and scrape the poo off the greenway with his boot. I never thought I'd see that.

Despite how apocalyptic things might feel, we live in an insanely productive time for fun edits of dystopian clips. Here's my entry:

This week’s video covers the vacant Ukrainian Workers’ Home on the Detroit/Hamtramck border. More broadly, the video covers Ukrainian immigration to #Detroit & #Hamtramck in the early 20th century and the newly established Ukrainian Heritage Neighborhood. Check it out: youtu.be/G71WIrFnicM

Riding my bike to get a U-Haul this morning, throwing the bike in the back, and continuing on my way. How it should be!

Can you imagine NOT thinking that Gratiot needs a major road diet? A scaled-down bike & pedestrian-friendly Gratiot would be safer for everyone and connect hundreds of thousands of Detroiters on the east side and suburbs. At least 8 people have died in accidents on Gratiot in #Detroit in 2025 alone.

The city recently listed the former Mazer-Cressman Cigar Plant on Grandy, and I think that's a huge mistake. It's a shoo-in for a historic designation. Also, when I posted this on Instagram, somebody told me they hoped I would get robbed in the city for making my videos, so here we are.

This week’s video is on the Mazer-Cressman Cigar Plant in Poletown East, an Albert-Kahn-designed plant where Polish immigrant women planned and executed a sit-down strike without union representation in 1937. Check it out: youtu.be/hNUPsKyayAk

When you're working on your longest YouTube video yet, and the City of Detroit lists the property in question for sale a few days before your video is set to release. Get ready for my longest-est video ever tomorrow at 9:45 AM! 😂

The first annual Poletown East Community Yard Sales will be on Sunday, October 12, from 9 AM until 4 PM, the same day as the St. Hyacinth Banana Festival. There will be an interactive map to help you find the sales and see what people are selling. See you there! 🤙 www.facebook.com/events/13611...

This week’s video is about the Aerocar plant on Mack Avenue, which, for a time, housed the Hudson Motor Car Company before its move to Jefferson Avenue. It’s currently for sale for close to $1,000,000. Check it out: youtu.be/2Y18EYAf8AE

One of the worst developers in Detroit having ties to Epstein wasn't on my 2025 bingo card

This week’s video is about the Livernois-Fenkell Riot on Detroit’s west side in 1975, which stemmed from a shooting at Bob Bolton’s Bar. Then-Mayor Coleman A. Young contained the unrest, and there was only one other fatality during the disturbance. Check it out: youtu.be/CL2UIFsVbvo

This week’s video is on the Stratford Theatre in Southwest #Detroit, and, more broadly, what Detroit can do with the vacant neighborhood theaters still standing. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/Oj4UDlV9jxs

Would it be realistic to replace the Detroit/Windsor tunnel bus with a train that uses the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel? It would be easy to plan timetables around freight, and it would be faster than the tunnel bus. Currently owned by CPKC.

This week’s video is about Mack & Bewick, an infamous intersection on Detroit’s east side, and the market that’s been at the corner for over 100 years. Check it out: youtu.be/H9qENIStwDE

Anything is a step up from Keyworth after they axed the bike valet. Two bike racks in Veterans Park aren't enough; the new stadium must be better. I'd love to see DGC's proposed extension for the SW Greenway happen, connecting the stadium to the Riverfront and as far as Junction via bike/walk.

This week’s video is on why #Detroit has so many churches in former bank buildings through the lens of the Peoples State Bank on Chene Street. Check it out ⬇️ youtu.be/f0pIvpj_o_o

Last night, I was walking through the neighborhood when I saw a buck eating from one of our neighbors' gardens. As I walked down the street, he entered the road, too, and I was so confused as to why he wasn't running away. As I got closer, I noticed that he had brush stuck in his antlers, and...

Turn it into a river

This is a big bummer for a large population of Detroiters who don't have the proper identification to travel to Canada or have ANY kind of felony, because Canada won't allow almost anyone with a record to visit. I always assumed this would be the case, but it still feels like a bummer.

If DCFC wins tonight, I'm going to Al-Haramain to get a Mars bar to celebrate. If DCFC loses, I'm going to Al-Haramain to get a Mars bar to make myself feel better. If we draw, you already know what I'm doing.

Why can't they make a small, fruity-tasting granola bar that gives me an entire day's serving of vegetables? Is that too much to ask?

This week’s video dives into the history of the Michigan Malleable Iron Company in #Detroit, the toxic plot of land it left behind after closing in 1960, and Delray, the village/neighborhood the company called home and polluted for decades. Here’s the video: youtu.be/n54gGcp_qw4 #DetroitHistory

Another miserable day of existence

I was ballot #3 at 9:30 AM at my precinct. GOOOO VOOOTTEEE PLEEAAASSEEE