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:
This is spectacularly good advice about storytelling, especially if you have a PhD. (Common + Critical)
Tough talk from John Della Volpe on how Democrats are missing Zoomer dudes. (JDV on Gen Z)
Austin peeps, I worked on this issue when I was in the Mayor’s Office, and every word she writes here about the convention center is correct and factual. (Rant by Neenz)
Smart take on how Kamala lost to the couch as much as to the Nazi. (Michael Podhorzer)
Ana Marie Cox is so damned smart, but this is restaurant quality. (AMC All the Time)
Then the administrative coup unfolded faster than real time. Fascism wasn’t creeping in—it’s just… here. Leftists rage at the tongue-tied Democrats, but it isn’t even capitulation.
They didn’t get a chance to surrender. The battle lines jumped over them, or maybe through them. They are still talking, unaware they’ve been sliced in half by piano wire. Just a slight push, and their torsos will slide off their hips. Viscera everywhere.
This show was fun to watch, but was it good?
Loved the pacing, but a lot of character motivations made no sense.
Oh George, how cute.
You cannot take your eyes off Kieran Culkin, all the while you want to murder him.
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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.