Your Mid-Week Experiment
Greetings to all the new subscribers after the weekend essay on Scott Braddock. This is the 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 your dad my Alamo book for Christmas, get someone you love Experiment merch for Christmas, drop some coins in the PayPal fountain, or become a paid subscriber. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.
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Reading this exposé of the leading academic “expert” on the benefits of homeschooling, I kept thinking about awkward interviewing him must have been. (Laura Meckler)
Sex is back in movies, and at least in one it’d more multidimensional than ever. (The New York Times Sunday Magazine)
This is still one of the best albums I’ve ever listened to.
I thought I was going to hate this movie, but it was pretty darn good. Go back up and read that spoilery New York Times Sunday Magazine piece; it helped me understand what the director was trying for.
Oh dear lord this movie was fun. Bonus points for Holland Taylor sighting.
We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now for your holiday shopping. Show your friends how cool you are by buying them a T-shirt.
We’ve also got a tip jar, and I promise to waste every cent you give me on having fun, because writing this newsletter for you is how I have fun.
Speaking of Christmas shopping… 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. The New York Times bestseller is 44% off and the same price as a paperback now!