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:
Ryan Holiday wrote something similar to this 7-8 years ago, and I remember that I wasn't ready for it. Now I get it. What I am paradoxically grateful for (and I think I need to write about this) is that I get another chance to live through a Trump presidency. I now have an unexpected (though admittedly unwanted) opportunity to respond to this mess better than I did the last time when I spent four solid years freaking the hell out. (Ryan Holiday)
Nick Hornby interviewing Sarah Vowell is all kinds of charming. (Nick Hornby)
My rockstar cousin George Stanford just dropped a new single.
The story about where calendar holidays like National Bagel Day, National Strawberry Ice Cream Day, National Hat Day, and National Kombucha Day come from is kinda strange. (Slate)
This hilarious campaign to deter spring breakers in Miami Beach is an innovative way for government to communicate. (gift link)
Meanwhile, Slowey and the Boats, which is fronted by George’s brother Isaac Stanford, released a new album last year that I somehow missed.
If you saw Dig!, the doc about the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, you’re going to want to read this. (GQ)
This tab sat open on my browser for a long time before I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s lovely essay. (gift link)
Why did it take me so long to crack the seal on this?
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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.