Peak: #4 on the Hot 100 Streams: 3.6 million Over on Mark and Sarah Talk About Songs, the podcast I host with Sarah D. Bunting, we’re in the midst of a Record the Year Showdown. That’s a tournament to determine the all-time greatest Grammy winner for Record of the Year, and the very first song we talk about is “Volare” by Domenico Modugno. It won both Rec… ncG1vNJzZmikn6jBtLvNoKpnq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1wrs6bmbJloq6xprjLZq2opJGnsm6%2BxK%2Bgnq8%3D

Hello! Tales from the Triverse is a long-form, weekly serial. It’s primarily a series of science fiction and fantasy detective stories. You can dip in and out of specific storylines or start here and read the whole thing. New chapters come out every Friday. You can choose a specific story here. You can also listen to me reading this chapter, if you’re in the middle of your commute / breakfast / washing up.

I was introduced to Maggie Rogers by my (triple Gemini) sister several years ago. We were sitting in her living room watching music videos on YouTube- a favorite pastime of any Mercurial person, as I’ve come to learn, when she put on “Fallingwater.” My sexual awakening had come about a decade before, but this would’ve been a better story. I was enamored. I loved the way she moved, the way her voice sounded, and the power of her lyrics.

Reading Time: 9 “Do you Yahoo?” Minutes It looks like tech IPOs are coming back. That’s a good thing for the next wave of adtech, martech, and the venture capitalists that back them. Instacart went public last week with a decent debut raising $660 million. The stock price popped to $40 but has since trickled downward –25% to ~$30/share. Next up to enter the public arena was Klaviyo opening at $36.

Dear Friend Books Bed Stuy, Brooklyn: 343A Tompkins Ave Another bookstore opened on Tompkins? I can smell my rent going up. Dear Friend Books is more of a cafe than a bookstore. It’s a very nice cafe with multiple ice tea options (I don’t drink coffee so a bomb tea selection warms my heart). Design wise, it hits the three M’s of contemporary Brooklyn: minimalism, marble, and maybe my apartment could look like this if I just put in some effort, dammit!