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:
Y’all is friendlier than howdy, and I will not be taking any questions. (Texas Highways)
Stephen Harrigan out there doing Stephen Harrigan things, which are, for the record, some of the best things. (Texas Monthly)
This is a take on the Ta-Nehisi Coates interview kerfuffle that I was not expecting. (John McWhorter)
Reddit becoming a crisis comms platform is very good news in the post-Twitter era. (Intelligencer) h/t to Brendan Hodgson and his excellent communications newsletter
Google search is deteriorating; there are better alternatives. (One Thing) h/t to Elise Hu’s OG newsletter Hu’s Letter (sound it out)
This takedown of the restrictive and punitive idea of masculinity was illuminating. (Dr. Ruth Whippman)
Terrible title. Great movie.
More violent and bloody than previous seasons, but we get deeper on the characters. Worth it.
Kinda liking S4 so far.
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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.