John and M. T. Anderson go urban exploring in Detroit's ruins (2007)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2012 · last event: retold (2012-06-12)
In March 2007, stranded in Detroit by cancelled flights, John and M. T. Anderson toured the city's abandoned buildings with a guide, including the United Artists Theatre. John later showed the guide's photos and in 2012 still remembered the trip.
About: the guide (Detroit urban explorer), United Artists Theatre Building, M. T. Anderson, Detroit
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) | told | Stranded by cancelled flights, John and M. T. Anderson take an urban exploring tour of Detroit's abandoned buildings with a guide, fleeing one building and exploring the United Artists Theatre. | Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration 00:00:05 |
| 2007-03-21 | update | John shows the guide's photographs of the inside of the abandoned Detroit theatre, better than his own video of the excursion. → refers to Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration | Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head 00:00:03 |
| 2012-06-12 | retold | John recalls that he once broke into abandoned buildings in Detroit with M. T. Anderson. | Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo 00:01:27 |
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What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John: Before he and John met at a book festival in Kalamazoo, Anderson spent a day looking at abandoned buildings in Detroit, where he randomly met the guide. — 00:00:05
- 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John: When their Friday flights east were cancelled, they called the guide, who offered them an urban exploring tour through the ruins of Detroit. — 00:00:05
- 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John: Hearing people walking and talking in the building, the group had to flee. — 00:01:45
- 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John reports that to the guide the ruins represent a failure to recognise and use the gifts of the past. — 00:02:24
- 2007-03-19 (said on 2007-03-17, implied) · Brotherhood 2.0: March 19th: Urban Exploration — John: Through a hole in the fence and the 'troll hole' they went from the theatre into an office building with safe deposit boxes; John shows what the theatre used to look like. — 00:03:26
- 2007-03-21 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 21st: Put Stuff on Your Head — John shows photographs the guide shot inside the abandoned Detroit theatre, which he says show the inside better than his video did, and thanks the guide at snweb.org. — 00:00:03
- 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — John met nerdfighters (one gave him a singamajig), spoke to an enormous room, and ate dinner with Shannon Hale and M. T. Anderson, with whom he once broke into abandoned buildings in Detroit. — 00:01:27