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:
Clickbaity headline that paid off: “What Comedians Know About Staying Married” (Olga Khazan)
Speaking of comedy, this ode to messy wedding toasts has good advice for writing humor (gift link)
The demand-side problem of the manosphere is where to focus h/t Elie Hu (Charley Johnson)
Hey, Forget the Alamo (and many, many other books) was pirated by Meta! also h/t Elie Hu (gift link)
Cannot tell you how easy and tasty this roast chicken recipe is. (gift link)
If Masha Gessen says we’re in a police state, listen. (gift link)
Love watching these two actors do their thing together.
Surprisingly tense, tightly constructed scenes, lots of laughs. The second episode was great.
Funnier than I expected. Also more violent and profane.
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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.