Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported 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 did not expect this essay about the bombing of Pan Am 103 to end up where it did. Worth it. (gift link)
Women all over the world are the ones evolving language. (free link)
Ate this oral history of Gimme Fiction up with a spoon. (free link)
This song has lived rent-free in my head since I moved to Austin in ‘94.
“Making a comeback is an intensely personal endeavor: The opponent is irrelevant.” h/t Ike Van Meter (Tom Brady)
“Maybe, just maybe, all exits can be entrances, too. Maybe it’s about embracing the time in between — the minutes we have left.” (Maggie Rogers)
This was a surprisingly sweet comedy about female friendships. I swear.
If Scott Pilgrim Saves the World and Sin City had a Tarantino baby with a Bob’s Burgers voice over…
This landed hard. Also: hilarious. Laughed out loud a lot.
Season 2 of The Rehearsal is magical. It expands what the idea of television can be.
S4 E5 is worth a look.
If you, like us, adored the first two Paddington movies for their Stilmanesque worldbuilding, British wit, and commitment to the bit, please skip this dreck. This movie was so disappointing that I’m sad.
Not even redeemed by the ever-watchable Tom Hardy, Havoc was less entertaining than it was gory… truly cartoonishly, pornographically gory. So gory, and a little boring.
A terrible waste of brilliant, gorgeous people. It’s not… what’s the word? Good. It’s not good.
Kids, do you like gunfighters? Is Tombstone your favorite movie? Most importantly, are you going to be in Dallas on June 7? Then, after buying The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild by Bryan Burrough, you’re going to want to come to 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.