Your 5/13 Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported, mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Hey, can you do me a solid? Go vote for my friends Sarah Bird (fiction writer) and Bryan Burrough (nonfiction writer) in the Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin contest. Please and thank you.
ok, let’s get to it:
Thirty Years Ago, Spoon’s First Album Changed My Life. I remember when I first heard Spoon. It sounded like a version of Texas that I could relate to. (free link)
Campaign staffers tell NPR they make ‘thousands’ betting on their own candidates. This would make a great premise for a Carl Hiaasen political novel set in Florida. (free link)
FBI probing leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Patel, sources say. Kash Patel is siccing the FBI on a reporter who wrote a story about his drinking problem. (free link)
The FBI Director Is MIA: Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. So whatever you do, don’t read the story about his drinking problem. (free link)
I have never been more in after watching a pilot. This story goes vroom.
This is so much fun.
We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now. Show the world that you’re part of The Experiment.
Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself.