Your Mid-Week Experiment
Check out Bryan Burrough & his new cover story & his new podcast & his new PeeChee & his new lunchbox!
Surprised by the reactions to last weekend’s essay about my misbegotten time as a sweaty, tryhard pundit. I do think cable news would be immeasurably improved by replacing the partisans on expert panels with, I don’t know, actual experts, but it’s embarrassing to the point of shame to admit how much I wanted to be one of those people. Anyway.
Let’s get to it:
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND READ BRYAN BURROUGH’S COVER STORY. (Texas Monthly)
And then listen to the podcast!
I love the way this story about fatherhood is told. (The New York Times)
I want to hug my friend Katy Vine for writing about her ecstatic bout of vertigo. (Texas Monthly)
Ryan Holiday gets name-checked here a lot. Now he gets the celebrity profile treatment elsewhere. (Texas Monthly)
Flood Magazine calls Walker Lukens’ latest single a “charming romantic jam.” Agreed.
It’s possible that these women over-estimate how provocative it is to call oneself a “trad wife.” (Washington Post)
“I’m not patient enough to spend time with assholes in Austin, and I’m not rich enough to buy any votes.” (Texas Monthly)
Salt your salmon, yo. (New York Times Cooking)
If Black Mirror’s technodystopia made you too tense, the first episode of season 6 will be a welcome change. Clever stuff.
Strange New Worlds is a fun mix of old-school Trek and modern sensibilities
We set up a merch table in the back where you can get T-shirts, coffee mugs, and even tote bags now. Show the world that you’re part of The Experiment.
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.
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!