@darrinrigo.bsky.social has already written about what this tells us about people's desire to have a destination downtown darrinrigo.substack.com/p/the-civic-...
As a precariously employed freelancer that contracts in many of the industries affected by these stupid tariffs, let me just say I’m pretty nervous about the future of my business right now.
Is there a Prince George news/ongoings/community on this thing?
If there is, I wrote a thing about the downtown PG Crossroads fire here:
darrinrigo.substack.com/p/crossroads...
There is something beautifully nostalgic about a handful of Gen Xers in my life who still use Facebook like I did in high school.
I made a video essay about urban sprawl in Prince George and the many ways living in a broke, car-dependent city sucks.
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How I long to bring back the non-chain convenience stores of my 90’s childhood.
Our (early) Christmas present this year to each other was a new vacuum that has a laser on the front that shows you how disgusting your floors are and counts how many particulates are sucked up and it's the greatest joy a 33 year old man could ask for.
Some street photography from a rainy November morning in Vancouver. 📸
I wrote a newsletter about what small urbanism things we can learn from successful winter events in the downtown core of Prince George.
We talk about walkability being good for all, changing perceptions, and even one of my favourite @brenttoderian.bsky.social concepts of "sticky streets."
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I’m still figuring out who is on this app from PG Twitter but for those OGs, a little life update:
Britt and I sneakily eloped to Jasper and got married yesterday. ❤️