I won't forget what you done to me
Greenwood, Archer, and Pine — Charlie, Robert, and Ronnie Wilson were teenagers when they named their band after those streets in the heart of the historic Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, OK. Greenwood Avenue was important because it’s one of the few Tulsa streets that did not run through its Black neighborhood to the other side of town. In the early 20th century, the avenue was lined with doctors’ and lawyers’ offices, the center of a thriving community whose economic vitality earned the name the Black Wall Street.
Before it was Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks pitched the title Purple Sage. Derived from the five-time adopted 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, Brooks hoped the title could be repurposed as a double reference to his own lead character, Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little), whose dark skin and uncommon wisdom lay the groundwork for a satire on Hollywood capitalism, systemic racial prejudice - and the Western genre that sometimes provides cover to both.
#1 Prologue: Two Hundred Years Earlier
2024-12-04
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.
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Happy to be back in your inbox so I can stop pondering my inevitable irrelevance/death. It’s good to just keep working so that you never have to do that <3 I hope you liked all the 15 things guests over the last month (I loved them)! I’m back to kick things off with my monthly advice column, Dear Baby. In keeping with the spirit of sneak-peek-July, I’m sending this to everyone, free riders included.
#107: Pinkydoll - by Marcus Bsch
2024-12-04
Hi.
You are reading Understanding TikTok. My name is Marcus. My For You Page these days is “power gay” Daniel-Ryan Spaulding getting Botox, Kathleen Hanna singing on a fitness bike, Madeline Argy’s accent, Hannah Diamond promoting her new single, Michael Motamedi eating tin fish in Spain, Glaive wearing Lemaire Black Piped Loafers to the sound of DJ Hearstring’s Boiler Room. How is your summer going?
Here is your last TikTok update before a little vacation en France…
#119 - Fast: An Autopsy - by Kevin LaBuz
2024-12-04
Hi 👋 - Failure is a great teacher. Fast, a high profile one-click checkout startup backed by Stripe, went belly up on April 5th. The company’s failure offers lessons for investors and operators. Thanks for reading. “How did you go bankrupt?"
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Stripped to the chassis, business is basic arithmetic: cash in versus cash out. At some point, the former needs to exceed the later.
#15: Reeducated - by Ben Mauk
2024-12-04
Hello,
Welcome to another monthly newsletter by me, the writer Ben Mauk. This month and next, I’ll share news and some behind-the-scenes details of Reeducated, a New Yorker Documentary I’ve spent the last year and a half developing, reporting, writing, and co-producing alongside my collaborator Sam Wolson and a team of artists and editors. I’ll also discuss the nature of reporting and writing in a new medium (virtual reality/immersive animation) on an underreported and poorly understood subject: extrajudicial detention and persecution in Xinjiang/East Turkestan.
#16: I'm So Gay - by Erin River Sunday
2024-12-04
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.
#178: Bird Poems - The Alipore Post
2024-12-04
Sweet reader,
This meme seems to capture the first week of 2022 a little too accurately for comfort. I hope you and your loved ones are safe, and taking care. Over the last weekend, I hosted two impromptu art parties online, with the second one including a piano recital by Viraaj Arora (Thank you, Viraaj!). It was just a way of ensuring I make art during the weekend lockdown in Bangalore, but opening it up to the community just made it so much more beautiful and enjoyable, with some incredibly positive energy in the (virtual) room.