Your Mid-Week Experiment
Is Walker Lukens the best music producer in Texas now?
Welcome to the always free, reader-supported mid-week edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. If you’d like to support my work, buy my Alamo book, buy some Experiment merch, drop some coins in the PayPal fountain, or become a paid subscriber. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.
Lot’s of good stuff to get to this week:
Sometimes you gotta know when it’s time to shut up. (Charles Pierce)
It’s hard to take crazy people seriously, even when their magical thinking leads to real-world consequences. (Peter Klass)
This turkey chili recipe slaps. (New York Times Cooking)
Read Texas Monthly’s rave of Texas Wild, a boundary-pushing compilation produced by Walker Lukens while you’re listening to it. (Peter Blackstone)
This is a seriously worth-your-time, deeply reported piece on immigration. (Jay Root)
Take a bow, Nina. And take a seat, Bill Bunch. (Rantz by Neenz)
I am trying hard not to be scared that Goliad’s finest is now House Speaker, but maybe I should freak out. (Margaret Sullivan)
Sam Jay had me howling a couple times during this thoughtful conversation.
Lara Logan only needs sugar, butter and flour to make banana bread because she’s bananas and nuts all on her own. (Elaina Plott Calabro)
I remember not following the Benghazi scandal too closely because the ones pushing the story were so obviously arguing in bad faith. Now I find out that Lara Logan was, too. (Joe Hagan)
After every war someone has to clean up.
“The End and the Beginning” by Wisława Szymborska
This is Nate Bargatze monologue a slow burn that ends with me laughing ugly. (Saturday Night Live)
Singles holds up well as an artifact of the early ‘90s.
Funny stuff here. h/t E.J.
My oldest son turned us onto Midnight Mass, which has a dark take on the blood of Christ giving everlasting life. I’m not a fan of horror or Catholicism, but I enjoyed this.
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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 is out from Penguin Random House.