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Tokyo Marathon 2026

This year I’ve been blessed (or cursed) with another opportunity to run the Tokyo Marathon. Having been fortunate to win the race lottery back in 2024, but unfortunate to come down with diarrhea, this year was my chance for a do-over.

People are drawn to escapist things in commerce, story-telling, in arts, in general… because they’re a little bit disatisfied with the world - as it actually is - and we want to inhabit or physically touch something that feels free from the disappointments of everyday life.

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Ryan quoting author Virginia Pastrel on why he is drawn to retrofuturistic things.

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Ryan Norbauer, designer and propmaker obsessed with mechanical keyboards

Virginia Pastrel, author The Power of Glamour

Before free solo

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“Behind the immeasurable loss of life is the loss of proof of life”

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John Mayer on the LA fires beginning 2025

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This is the most valuable thing I own. It’s a folder of photos of my father, spanning his life from being a baby, an educator, a husband and a father. It’s the only evidence of his life that will exist over time. These are the “documents” you read about people taking from their homes. When you hear someone say they’ve lost everything in a fire, this is much of that everything, if not all of it. Those who say they’ll be okay still have their folders and their albums. Those who are inconsolable have lost them. Just behind the immeasurable loss of life is the loss of the proof of life. I don’t practice prayer but tonight I will say on for everyone who no longer has these items. It’s not about the art and the collectibles. It’s the photos, the letters, the class rings, the eyeglasses and the things we keep to remind us that those we loved were here. May those who have lost so much find some semblance of hope and support from their family and friends. Stay safe, look out for yourself and for one another, and trust that humaity and all it entails, though sometimes hard to see, is alive and well. This is truly devastating.