Your Mid-Week Experiment
I come to you with a rare opportunity to share good news.
Hey kids, do you like the good news? Your favorite Alamo book is a crossword clue today’s USA Today. Even more importantly, the high school barbecue team that I wrote about last weekend made nationals! That’s right, a hometown high school barbecue team is going to the national high school barbecue championships, and by typing that sentence I just won Texas Yahtzee. If you’re in Austin, click here to buy some smoked meat, banana pudding, and burgers from them to raise money for nationals. And there’s new Frank Spring content below!
Let’s do this:
“Galveston, Texas, in the 1930s is a complete and utter gift to a novelist. I mean, we had our very own Boardwalk Empire down here in Texas. Except that the weather was better and the people were nicer.” (Sarah Bird)
“Memoirs are not written under oath, but they do have the benefit of hindsight…” (Dan Zak)
Margaret Atwood has some thoughts.
I did a political comedy podcast. Political comedy ensued.
Regina Spektor is back, baby!
Thanks to Noom, I lost 40 pounds over 2020-21 and have kept it off since then. Click on the blue box to get 20% off. Seriously, this works. No, this isn’t an ad. Yes, I really lost all that weight with Noom.
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 some
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. Out in paperback this June!