Japanese love hotels ☼ Overcoming time anxiety ☼ Vintage hiking photos

Dearest internet friends,
Welcome to 2025’s first episode of The Palm Report.
We have so many exciting things planned for this year that I can’t wait to share with you. But until then, here’s this week’s instalment of what’s hot in life & leisure.
Much love ☼
Marty
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☼ This level of curiosity is really inspiring to me. This video follows one man’s quest to find a working model of Sony’s gargantuan tube TV: The KX45-45ED1. It weighed over 440lbs and cost $40,000 in 1989. If you liked Reply All’s cult episode “The Case of The Missing Hit”, you’ll probably like this too.
☼ “Ultimately, Time Anxiety is a call to wake up from the trance of busyness and reclaim our most precious resource.” This book sounds excellent and necessary. And it’s on pre-order now.
☼ Sure, you have game. But do you have as much game as the guy taking his date to one of these love hotels in Japan? A joyful photography series by François Prost.


☼ So when is someone going to buy this mid-century Italian corner sofa with an in-built record player, and invite us all over to listen to the Sade Promise album?
☼ Really into this outdoor public “dining room” in Iowa by design studio, i/thee. They used water pressure to erode the walls, and then 3D modelling to make the tables fit seamlessly. 10/10—would sit here with a crumbling gluten-free sandwich.

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