Richard Eriksson

@richard.eriksson.ca

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It’s TXT records all the way down.

Homer Simpson, wearing a suit and tie at his high school reunion, crossing his fingers on both hands.
A view of the Toronto skyline, looking southward from Spadina Ave., where fog has obscured anything bound a few hundred metres.
A map of the Comox Valley with Courtenay renamed as "A Supposedly Nuclear Free Zone" and Comox renamed as "Courtenay".
A young girl in a park runs up to the you and yells in your face “IT’S A FACT!”
A screenshot of Google Maps depicting Adelaide Pl. and Adelaide St. W. (near Bathurst and King St. W.).
A still from The Simpsons, with tobacco company executives proposing to Lisa Simpson (wearing a crown, which she had won as Little Miss Springfield, and which had been partially melted in a lightning strike [not while she was wearing it, at least]), an advertisement campaign where she, a little girl, is praying at her bedside, smoking a cigarette, and the text reads "God Bless Mommy and Daddy and Laramie Cigarettes".
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.
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.
A screenshot of a video of the scoreboard at Yankee Stadium, after the clock struck midnight on November 1st, 2001, which reads: ATTENTION FANS: WELCOME TO NOVEMBER BASEBALL
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.”
4 TV screens in. Kitchener, Ontario bar showing hockey, hockey, basketball and baseball, all at the same time.
The marquee of The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto with the electronic music duo Autechre being tonight’s featured event. There are people in front of the music hall, in line waiting to get in.
Three chicken tacos and a small bowl of salsa with a beer in the background.
First, an answering machine, with a button pressed by one of the nerds, and then it cuts to a shot of Homer and the nerds, with the nerds sighing after they learn that the number of messages received is zero.
The “Sickos” meme of a peeper looking in a window saying “Yes…Ha ha ha…Yes!”
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.
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, banging his desk on his desk, laughing.
A screenshot of the bottom of the editorial which reads: "We have closed comments on this story for legal reasons or for abuse. All articles covering the Middle East are closed to commenting to prevent further misinformation and abuse in the comments. For more information on our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions."
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.
An iPhone app icon, in the style of a jeans pocket with an iPhone sticking out the top of it.
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.
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.”
A screenshot of a button and a caption. The button reads: “JOIN THE WAITLIST” The caption reads: “This is not a dating app.”
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.”
The view of Montréal as seen from a bus with wrap covering the window.
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.
A screenshot of the Twitch app on iOS with the last message saying that the channel has been suspended.
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.
Early voting results with only one poll of 167 reporting.
A white male, wearing glasses with hair over his ears and a greying beard, holding a purple hyacinth plant in a white vase. In the background is a print from a winter scene in Toronto.
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 summary of the Swanguardians group chat: “Offside call deemed garbage; great team, wrong result.”
A hand holding a shiny Delta Airlines trading card with an A321 on it.
Gravestones at Victoria Memorial Square, a park in downtown Toronto, which flies the Union Jack year-round. In the background are apartment buildings.
The volume indicator in iOS, comically extended to more than 100%.
A diagram of how John Jones was stuck upside down in Nutty Putty Cave for 27 hours in a cave before passing away.
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $280" and the text below it reading "I've raised 112% of my goal!"
A green book with a white whale on its cover, held in front of a framed print of a painting of a Toronto streetcar.
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $210" and the text below it reading "I've raised 84% of my goal!"
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $185" and the text below it reading "I've raised 74% of my goal!"
The cast of Apple TV+’s Severance. From left to right it’s Mark S., Irving B., Dylan G., and Helly R.
A sign showing the schedule of Coldest Night of the Year with times for registration, opening ceremonies, the beginning, when registration closes, and when the route closes.
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $160" and the text below it reading "I've raised 64% of my goal!"
A screenshot of a search in Bluesky for "Sincerity" and filtering by feeds.
Steel truss painted green.
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $120" and the text below it reading "I've raised 48% of my goal!"
A screenshot of my Twitch recap, showing GoatCam™ as my most-watched stream.
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $90" and the text below it reading "I've raised 36% of my goal!"
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $50" and the text below it reading "I've raised 20% of my goal!"
An image in the style of a thermometer, with the heading "My Fundraising Progress" and the blue part reading "Raised: $30" and the text below it reading "I've raised 12% of my goal!"
A black rectangular camera, the Kodak Ektralite 10, in a man’s hand, with the backdrop being a print of a painting of a Toronto streetcar.
The cover of DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing....., featuring his friends Tom Shimura (Asia Born), wearing a wig and white sweater, and Xavier Mosley (Chief Xcel), who has a bunch of vinyl records under his arm, both flipping through albums at a record store.
A wide shot of a concert hall, with different hues of purple lighting on the ceiling.
The hand of The Leader of the short-lived cult The Movementarians from The Simpsons, with a white glove, mysteriously waving from the back seat of a car with the window rolled down about halfway.
A spreadsheet listing the reading schedule for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as part of a group reading called Hot Frank Summer. Checkmark emojis are used to track where the reader in question has gotten to so far.
A spreadsheet listing the reading schedule for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as part of a group reading called Hot Frank Summer. Checkmark emojis are used to track where the reader in question has gotten to so far.