Your 7/22 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.
Let’s get right to it:
I Got Slopped. In which some jack wagon uses AI to “write” a biography of a New York Times writer who goes down a rabbit hole to find him. (gift link)
Phil Stanford Has Literally Written the Book on Michael Francke’s Murder. My dad has a new book out about the biggest political assassination in Oregon’s history—which state officials seem suspiciously opposed to investigating. (review, buy it here)
I Spent $44,000 Launching My Book. Three of Those Dollars Worked. This, from novelist Amy Chan, is the most useful thing I’ve ever read about promoting a book. (free link)
Next time I’m in DC, I’m going to go to the National Gallery of Art to see Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz’s “Antifaz: Forget The Alamo. Yellow Rose.”
Julia Allison and Noah Feldman’s Wedding Brought Together Burning Man and Harvard. When I die in a hail of gunfire after leading an unsuccessful revolution against the oligarchs, tell them that reading this article was my villain origin story. (free link)
Apparently, Netflix Is Shocked That No One Is Watching Their Crap. Read this and understand how Netflix broke television. (free link)
Spoiler Alert: That ‘Live’ World Cup Broadcast Is Not Really Live. Ever seen how some people watching a live event on one channel see it a few seconds ahead of where you are watching it? Here’s why “live” isn’t always exactly live. (gift link)
What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You. Thank god none of these apply to me, but maybe that’s just because they didn’t include The Thermals or Spoon. (free link)
I mean, I guess?
Sneakily feminist, this show is so much dang fun.
Meh.
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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.