9.24.2025

Is this the warehouse that burned down? No but it's full of ghosts anyway. Here we have an open space but you have to reserve it. It's empty. That's correct. You'll need to sign up for an app and you'll use that to open the doors. All the doors? All the doors. You can see the fire and smoke damage on the corrugated tin from the fire at the illegal club that killed all those people. Oh no those are intentional design markers. Up here is the roof where I spend all my lunches. I see why. Is it raining? Only a little. It's cold out here. Look I'm from Michigan this isn't cold. Of course, she says. This is a memorial, this monument in the middle of the building, a column of light that extends up through the upper stories and where the names of the victims of the fire that did not happen are recorded. So there's no way to rent a monthly membership, I'm seeing here. You can rent one of our closed office spaces. What is the open space for? Mourning, vigils, dedications, mostly. Collective expressions of grief. It's a helluva thing not to be able to get over a thing that never happened. I couldn't agree more. You look like you have more to say. We should get a drink sometime. I wasn't expecting that. Forgive me I'm not myself these days.