Your Mid-Week Experiment
A couple banger recipes for you. Oddly, neither is for bangers.
Thanks for all the feedback after last weekend’s essay on the cool things that happens to your brain when you hear a story and how that affects what you do. I’m going to keep this short because
This, about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, is a great portrait of friendship, and about as close to a must-read as I’m going to post here. (Sally Jenkins)
And this, about the misinterpretation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s surprising strength in early polling, is smart stuff. (Yair Rosenberg)
Making this Hawaiian-style sherbet was ridiculously easy. (The New York Times Cooking)
Ditto this watermelon and feta salad. (New York Times Cooking)
“If ‘tolerance’ seems like an upside-down way of describing the latitude to refuse services to certain classes of Americans, it’s just part of a slick, almost surreal piece of legal writing that, for this civilian, could only be countered by blinking hard and remembering my real friends turned down by wedding venues.” (Amanda Katz)
Judd Apatow interviewing Mel Brooks is next-level chef’s kiss. h/t E.J. (The Atlantic)
Absolutely loved this movie.
Thanks to S.N. for passing this on.
Fall Out Boy updated the references in We Didn’t Start the Fire.
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!