Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported 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 my Alamo book, buy some Experiment merch, 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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Winner, winner, chicken dinner. (New York Times Cooking)
What do polls tell NBC’s Senior Political Editor? “We don’t know,” he writes. Good to see journalists get religion on polling. (Mark Murray)
This podcast is blowing my mind. This ain’t the first time a bunch Republicans were doing the bidding of a hostile foreign power and trying to overturn our democracy. h/t Ike
This seems important. Getting off Facebook and Instagram for a month and a half makes you 2-3% more likely to vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. (Nieman Lab)
Wanna read the saddest story Skip Hollandsworth ever wrote? (Texas Monthly)
Surprised at the similarities between working out and writing. (Maria Popova)
This is the best (and funniest and unexpectedly heartfelt) speech by a writer about being a writer (and not writing) I’ve ever seen. h/t Austin Kleon’s newsletter, where I also discovered Henrick Karlsson’s essay on how to cultivate ideas.
Ha. Also: ha.
I enjoyed this a lot more than critics did. Your mileage may vary.
It’s just kinda fun to watch Kristen Wiig doing Kristen Wiig things.
Can’t stop feeling like we’re all Jews in Paris watching the Nazis arrive.
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