Your Mid-Week Experiment
Only 19 more drinking days till Christmas
Greetings to all the new subscribers after the weekend essay on Scott Braddock. This is the 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 your dad my Alamo book for Christmas, get someone you love Experiment merch for Christmas, drop some coins in the PayPal fountain, or become a paid subscriber. But even if you don’t, this bugga free.
Lots of good stuff this week, heavily weighted toward television. Let’s get to it:
This analysis of what we really need to worry about with the A.I. scandal at Sports Illustrated is so good it haunts me. (Will Leitch)
If you can believe it, he backs up this headline: “The Anti-Israeli Left Is Turning Into QAnon” (Ben Dreyfuss)
How one rule change turned the House of Representatives into an anti-social media platform. (Semafor)
The adults failed to keep the adult with the gun from entering the school. The adults failed to intervene. And now the adults are failing to hold adults accountable. (Texas Tribune)
I am mad at myself for not thinking of this headline first: “High Vibes and Misdemeanors: The GOP’s Biden Impeachment Stunt Picks Up Steam” (Vanity Fair)
This, by Sam Jay, is one of the funniest bits I’ve heard in a while.
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This one started out a bit old-timey networky but eventually found its altitude.
OK, Baz Luhrmann, you got me with this one. He remade a movie into a miniseries. Gorgeous to look at, and not at all emotionally manipulative in the end. No sir.
Very much digging the 5th season of Fargo.
I missed Amy Heckerling’s Vamps when it came out in 2012. It’s good for a late-night stream.
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Speaking of Christmas shopping… 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!