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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 30/09/2026

I recommend that all Canadians read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on a yearly basis. It’s brief! It almost, but not quite, fits in the palm of my hand.

A small copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, held in a man’s hand, in front of a print of a painting of a wintry Toronto streetcar scene by Amy Walsh-Harris.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 08/04/2026

“Fun within prescribed limits” has been the tagline of my blog since this episode aired.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 15/03/2026

Yoshinobu Yamamoto meltdown, please please please. #WorldBaseballClassic

Homer Simpson, wearing a suit and tie at his high school reunion, crossing his fingers on both hands.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 06/03/2026

ELI5 why the CN Tower just disappears for hours on end.

A view of the Toronto skyline, looking southward from Spadina Ave., where fog has obscured anything bound a few hundred metres.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 17/02/2026

Somebody renamed Comox to Courtenay in Rename World. Now that’s funny.

A map of the Comox Valley with Courtenay renamed as "A Supposedly Nuclear Free Zone" and Comox renamed as "Courtenay".

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 19/01/2026

There’s also Adelaide Pl. and Adelaide St. W.

A screenshot of Google Maps depicting Adelaide Pl. and Adelaide St. W. (near Bathurst and King St. W.).

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 01/12/2025

I wondered the same thing as I crossed the Puente de Luz bridge today.

The CN Tower, the top of which is not visible because of fog, leading one with little evidence that it’s in fact there, causing panic due to the possibility that it may have in fact toppled over. Visible in the foreground are rail tracks, and the CN Tower (or what's remaining of it) is framed by high-rise buildings.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/11/2025

I know I know I know, it’s way harder, but we need to post more photos of what it looks like from inside the vehicle. It’s far, far more compelling to show what it looks like from the inside. In May, I was on a bus from the Montréal airport to downtown and this was my view. Just awful.

A photo of Montréal from the inside of a bus with outside wrapping, preventing an actual view of the city. It looks like yellow and blue dots instead of the first impression of a Canadian city that might he the first impression for people.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 30/10/2025

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

The album cover for The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. From Wikipedia: “The album is named after a store the group made up called Paul's Boutique. On the cover of the album, the group hung a sign saying ’Paul's Boutique’ on an existing clothing store called Lee’s Sportswear at the corner of Rivington and Ludlow streets, in Manhattan's Lower East Side.”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 25/10/2025

4 sports matches on at the same time: Kitchener Rangers, Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Blue Jays, all at once! What a country!

4 TV screens in. Kitchener, Ontario bar showing hockey, hockey, basketball and baseball, all at the same time.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 14/10/2025

This is usually true, but these were humongous tacos. Here they were back when there were three of them:

Three chicken tacos and a small bowl of salsa with a beer in the background.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 08/10/2025

Me seeing shots of sad Yankees fans on Sportsnet:

The “Sickos” meme of a peeper looking in a window saying “Yes…Ha ha ha…Yes!”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 04/09/2025

Imagine my surprise when I learned that the copy of The Crisis of Canadian Democracy I found in a Little Free Library was signed by @acoyne.bsky.social himself.

The title page of a book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne, signed by the author himself, in front of a print of a Toronto streetcar.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 03/09/2025

What was I laughing about now? Oh yes, about how one of the witnesses was shirtless and holding a slab of wood and another was wearing a Cumberland Brewing Co. hat.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, banging his desk on his desk, laughing.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, asking Mr. Smithers what what he (Mr. Burns) was laughing at now.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, sitting next to Mr. Smithers, remembering what he was laughing at now.

Mr. Burns from The Simpsons laughing next to Mr. Smithers.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 06/08/2025

There’s one like this at Augusta Ave. and Paul Ln Gardens (you can sort of see it in the very middle of this Google Street View of it). I (jokingly) thought it was for kids and kids only, but there’s gotta be some other, better explanation for it. If you go to the link you can zoom in more.

A screenshot of a Google Street View, at August Ave. and Paul Ln Gardens in Toronto, which shows a pedestrian call button at knee height for adults (in the very middle of the screenshot). There is a wide sidewalk with a crosswalk that takes up most of the screenshot.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 19/07/2025

I think about the Moves app icon and how good both it and the app were at least once a day.

An iPhone app icon, in the style of a jeans pocket with an iPhone sticking out the top of it.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 05/07/2025

If he’s referring to The Bygone Bureau then, for the record, I loved The Bygone Bureau. thereportedessay.substack.com/p/the-featur...

How did you start getting into this? As a writer first who liked longform? Or did you start with editing?

In a sense I was lucky to grow up in a house where my parents read a lot, which I don't think is a super-common experience for many kids of immigrants. My parents were good readers. They were mostly reading genre stuff. My dad's favorite author is Michael Connelly, who is actually an ex-journalist. But we didn't really get magazines. I was not reading New Yorker features as a kid. It was around college where I had scammed my way into a bunch of cheap magazine subscriptions that I started engaging with that a bit more. And then I ran a very mediocre literary blog for several years and we ran a lot of essays. That's how I learned to edit, at least at a base level.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 01/07/2025

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars or Transformers 🤖

Bender from Futurama, having just been thrown out of a theme park, and is lying down on a desolate planet, and who then says: “Yeah? Well, I’m gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the park.”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 05/06/2025

I regret to inform them that yes it is.

A screenshot of a button and a caption. The button reads: “JOIN THE WAITLIST”
The caption reads: “This is not a dating app.”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 31/05/2025

I can’t wait to say this in Toronto in a few weeks: “Well, I'll tell you one thing: They didn’t come here for Franco-Fête…June 20th to 22nd.” franco-fete.ca

The forest ranger from The Simpsons, who originally said “Well, I’ll tell you one thing. They didn't come here for the Mountain Music Festival...March 14th to 18th.”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 29/05/2025

This is not the best way to get a first impression of a city from the window seat of the express bus between the airport and downtown.

The view of Montréal as seen from a bus with wrap covering the window.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 18/05/2025

Post a robot that's not from Star Wars or Transformers.

A largely light silver (almost white) robot with an oversized head, pointing in a direction. It’s Marvin the Paranoid Android from the 2005 film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, who was voiced by Alan Rickman.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 29/04/2025

The CBC meant plurality, but they ain’t know it.

Projection of a Liberal government by CBC TV without knowing whether it would be a minority or majority government, the former being dependent on whether they, the Liberal Party of Canada, could command the confidence of the House of Commons.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 11/04/2025

Did you know that there’s a store in Toronto that has recreations of Marge Simpson’s paintings of Ringo Starr in the staircase to their basement?

A staircase with paintings of Ringo Starr in the style of how Marge Simpson did them. The one in the foreground is the one of Ringo with a star in the backdrop.

A staircase with paintings of Ringo Starr in the style of how Marge Simpson did them. The one in the foreground is an imagining of Marge marrying Ringo.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 05/04/2025

Apple Intelligence got sentiment of what the group chat thought of the end of the women’s match right. @tssrovers.bsky.social @swanguardians.bsky.social @aftn.bsky.social

A summary of the Swanguardians group chat: “Offside call deemed garbage; great team, wrong result.”

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 28/03/2025

I was just on my first flight on Delta Air Lines since learning about the trading cards, so I got one from the pilot as I deplaned. I talked to the flight attendant about it as I was boarding, and she assured me that I didn’t have to be a kid to ask for one.

A hand holding a shiny Delta Airlines trading card with an A321 on it.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 09/03/2025

In my mind, there’s a Commonwealth Day ceremony at Victoria Memorial Square (originally named Victoria Square to honour the then-Princess Victoria, and it wasn’t even named that to begin with, and which flies a Union Jack year-round). I always have to work that day, so every year, I just imagine it.

Gravestones at Victoria Memorial Square, a park in downtown Toronto, which flies the Union Jack year-round. In the background are apartment buildings.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 08/03/2025

When “Gimme! Gimme! gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” comes on while playing this album:

The volume indicator in iOS, comically extended to more than 100%.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 27/02/2025

The route you took reminded me of this illustration:

A diagram of how John Jones was stuck upside down in Nutty Putty Cave for 27 hours in a cave before passing away.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 24/02/2025

The Trying-Out of Moby-Dick by Edward P. Vincent, a book about the source material for the novel, is mentioned in that interview. I own a copy of it. The cover was designed by H. Lawrence Hoffman. 🐋📖

A green book with a white whale on its cover, held in front of a framed print of a painting of a Toronto streetcar.

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Richard Terroriksson @richard.eriksson.ca · 23/02/2025

You have been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

The cast of Apple TV+’s Severance. From left to right it’s Mark S., Irving B., Dylan G., and Helly R.

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