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Fall is here

Mic check

So in the great ‘switching to https is easy’ debate, I’ve got a question: How do I make it so that typing andrewkurjata.ca/about or andrewkurjata.ca/subscribe into my browser takes me to https://andrewkurjata.ca/about or https://andrewkurjata.ca/subscribe instead of just my homepage??

So since my troubles with my WordPress setup, something’s gone screwy with my feed. Can’t be found by some readers and others are missing posts made since the reset. Anyone have ideas? Thanks in advance

Someone needs to explore what it means that one of the great American voices of the 21st century has thrown himself into writing comics. // Ta-Nehishi Coates is writing ‘Captain America.’

Ugh. Was going to do some writing but apparently something went haywire on my WordPress install and I was locked out. Back in, but had to deactivate all plugins and everything is screwy. Good motivation to get on cleaning things up on there….

First “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking” attempt: tomato sauce with heavy cream served over spinach and ricotta gnocci

BBC Radio 6 has asked for the strongest three-song run on an album and honestly there are two possible answers

Spring is coming

I mean

Remember when the reason people gave for not using social networks was “no one cares about your lunch” and “what if it goes out of business” instead of “I don’t want to be complicit in the rise of fascist ethno-nationalism”

Last year, a videographer from Radio-Canada came up and took some stock photos of the region. He made me realize one of the best representations of Prince George was just down the street from my office

Nice.

Now playing. Critically underrated.

Despite hearing about it many times, I’ve never read David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster before today, and it is amazing. h/t daringfireball.net/kottke.org

-17 C wind chill but she’s a trooper

So the thing about both Black Panther and The Force Awakens is I found myself thinking about the villains afterwards and going, “Well, they aren’t wrong…

Really enjoyed the Exploration Place’s photo collection of Lheidli T’enneh members in the early 20th century. Struck me that it is one of the few times I’ve seen Indigenous people of this time as they were, rather than how settlers imagined them to be.

“How does a city wish to be? Look to the library. A library is the gift a city gives to itself.” https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-good-room/