Your Mid-Week Experiment
Live, from South Beach!
Consider me extremely flattered that so many of you are sharing the essay on the “Patagonia vest recession.” Means a lot.
I’m writing you from a hotel balcony in Miami Beach, where S and I finally are finally doing our anniversary trip, albeit a week late this year because I had to be in Austin for the school district bond election. (We won, bigly.) That’s me below in the T-shirt from Lala’s Little Nugget, and that’s S, pointing at art like a G.
A couple of days ago we accidentally found ourselves in a French café, where S left me for a second so she could take an unexpected business call to conduct, you know, business. I’m noodling along on Twitter while noticing that a great song is playing. I Shazam it, and it’s by this Belgian singer named Selah Sue, whom I’ve never heard of. I go back to Twitter, because that’s all I have concentration for now, only to hear another song that I like. I Shazam it, and sure enough, it’s Selah Sue again. Reader, after two or three more songs, I caught on that they were playing her eponymous album, which I’m including here.
I’m telling you, people, I am having trouble focusing on words, much less reading paragraphs, so I don’t have any cool articles to share with you. But I do have this episode of a podcast that I apparently gave an extensive interview to a while ago. The entire series is worth your time, even the first seven episodes that are completely bereft of Jason content.
This eighth episode, however, has me articulating why Forget the Alamo matters probably better than I ever have. It’s a tricky thing, mind you. This weekend I have a special treat in store for you along with my regular essay, but for now you’re stick with a Belgian singer and me holding forth about the Alamo.
Jason Stanford is the co-author of NYT-best selling Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. His bylines have appeared in the Washington Post, Time, and Texas Monthly, among others. Follow him on Twitter @JasStanford.
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