#Runyon
Damon Runyon did it almost obsessively and beautifully! I use it a lot.
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Lovely morning tradition in LA hiking up Runyon. Never gets old.
January 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Just finished "2021 SciFi Anthology: The Science Fiction Novelists" by Kayelle Allen, Claudia Blood, Frank Booker, Marc Neuffer, Philip Cahill, Michael Clarke, Caleb Fast, S. A. Gibson, Robert Mariner, Jon Perrotti, JJ Porter, JJ Toner, John Bowers, David Viner, E.J. Runyon. Halfway recommended…3*
January 18, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I think it's very important for one's sanity to read all the #OrangeOaf 's Truth Socials in the voice of a Damon Runyon character. #SanityClause
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
PSI's Kirby Runyon spoke with the hosts of What The If podcast about his citizen science project to map ancient impact melt flows on the Moon, which he co-leads with PSI's Pamela Gay.

Listen here! buff.ly/mFe08of
CITIZEN Science -- With Kirby Runyon! — WHAT THE IF?
Map ancient lava flows on the moon from your couch and help solve mysteries billions of years old.
whattheif.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Griffith Park
Palos Verdes
Runyon Canyon
Mulholland Drive

This shit is what drives me nuts about tourists
‘Bike to Elysian park the view is incredible!’

The view:
January 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Yah. That’s my point. Millions in coastal california face a similar risk. Had the Runyon canyon fire been a night earlier, much of Hollywood burns.
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Last month, Arlene Sharpe and Gordon J. Freeman (Damon Runyon Fellow '79-'81) received the inaugural edition of the Gretener-Thürlemann Prize for their foundational work on the immune system, widening the field of immunology and demonstrating how important basic science is to medical breakthrough.
Deciphering the Immune System Side by Side
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January 12, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Study reveals pancreatic cancer research leads to neurological treatment insights! Damon Runyon-funded research into #pancreaticcancer cell metabolism led to a promising treatment strategy for a rare neurological disease! www.damonrunyon.org/discovery/pa... #TCSC
Pancreatic cancer research leads to treatment for neurological disease | New Discoveries
In 2021, Damon Runyon scientists Michael E. Pacold, MD, PhD, Robert S. Banh, PhD, and their colleagues at New York University Langone Health discovered how the enzyme CoQ10 is made, a synthesis pathwa...
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January 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
A super WW film on Youtube, for free in the US, is Lady For A Day '33. Damon Runyon story, Robert Riskin script, Frank Capra directing. Columbia studios lifted half the character-actor stable from WB for this modern fairy-tale. Pathos, comedy, perfection.
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Runyon Cyn/Hwd, 24 hours ago.
January 6, 2026 at 4:06 PM
January 6, 2026 at 1:38 PM
All this LA rain made Runyon so green 😊💚🌲
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 AM
The cases themselves are relatively slight, split without overlap between Tamara, Bill, and Jake Runyon. As ever, though, San Francisco emerges as its own gritty, gloomy, sordid kind of character, where life is a struggle and even the non-criminals mostly prove unpleasant. #NamelessDetective
January 6, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Whew! Incredible hike from Runyon Canyon down to West Hollywood and back up a mighty steep incline.

What a challenge, but so worth it to experience these spectacular views.
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The (TV Series) Charles In Charge (1984–1990) (Season 3) is available today on (Prime Video) (US) for $12.99 Cast: Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Nicole Eggert, Josie Davis, Erika Eleniak, April Lerman, Jennifer Runyon, Ellen Travolta, Alexander Polinsky, Julie Cobb, Justin Whalin
January 5, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Instead of today's sociopathic/amoral villain protagonists, we should revive old school Robin Hood, Damon Runyon style lovable rogues who fight greed and corruption
January 4, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Oh I missed that you had already looked, but we did the same "prob not Twain" guess :) I also thought maybe Damon Runyon.
January 2, 2026 at 4:06 PM
It feels like Twain, but everything clever sounds like him. Also sounds like Damon Runyon. It's an excellent and apropos quote, yes.
January 2, 2026 at 4:03 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Topic for today: why didn’t Douglas Fairbanks Jr. become a bigger star? The man could do it all:

1. Screwball romances.

2. Tart family comedies that turn sweet.

3. Cynical Runyon-esque noirs, courtesy of Ben Hecht.

4. Cold War paranoiac thrillers.

#FilmSky 🎥
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Good one!
Or...
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Today's note of praise: for the early Forties novels of Craig Rice (pseud. Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig), whose mysteries - especially those involving the press agent Jake Justus and his charismatic, elegant, maniac driver wife Helene, are lots of fun, almost like Damon Runyon meets the Thin Man!
January 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
そう言えば、Damon Runyonの競馬コラムを集めたやつを買ってあるんだが、すでに本棚で行方不明になっている。どこ行ったの。
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM