Welcome to the Wednesday Walk Around the Web, where we weave & wind through weblinks weekly. Hopefully you will find the links on offer amusing, interesting, or informative.
- Dry-aged beef is a much-desired (and much-paid-for) premium restaurant item. But what happens when you dry age ALL the meats?
- Breakdowns of the emojis that different companies create for the same topic or object are a venerable tradition on the lines, and this breakdown of synagogue emojis may be the best one yet. The shul with two different committees preparing to choose a new machzor is, as they say, A Mood.
- Press conferences about COVID-19 could definitely use some lightening up, as those things are downer supremes. Someone should kick off their Lady Gaga ringtone at a random point in every one.
- Also in public health: With COVID-19 causing great concern far and wide, there’s been a new wave of hand-washing guides, including a fresh and innovative list of songs you can sing to yourself to see if you’ve washed your hands enough. You know what — if this is what it takes for folks to wash their hands more frequently and more thoroughly, better late than never. Let us all be welcomed to a wider world.
- Look, we may just post and read articles such as this one about a woman who stopped in the middle of an intersection to try to get roadkill to repent, but if you’re the sort of person who believes in souls and stuff, shouldn’t she try to save even the humble possum? Is not every life sacred?
- If you’re running a small-scale dental practice that’s somewhat strapped for resources, maybe you too would keep the sign that’s already bolted to your new location, with just a small modification to make it more disturbing so it sticks in people’s minds.
- There’s a lot I don’t understand about the politicians people become passionate about. Like, lots of us got swept up in the Obama phenomenon for a while before it became clear how serious he was about governing as a moderate. But everyone has some passionate fans, even that blandest of the bland, Mayor freakin’ Pete. Behold, friends, the Mayor Pete fanfic community. I’m not sure what I love more, the Pete/Chasten Oval Office fuck sessions, or the authors stanning Lis Smith, the (now-former) Buttigieg comms director. The latter, I think, is strong evidence of a terminal dose of The West Wing.
- For real though, the Mayor Pete fanfic is just one manifestation of a real problem we have where people imagine politicians using whatever character archetypes they want and then fit them into roles rather than treating them more as, you know, public servants who have a job to do and should be held accountable according to how well they do it. That’s how we got Joe Biden as imagined by The Onion, a dysfunctional but ultimately wholesome disaster-uncle rather than the centrist creep he plays in reality.
- A cumulus cloud weighs the same as a handful of whales. Your argument is invalid.
- This Week in Politics and Also Rap: After the rest of Public Enemy made an appearance for Bernard Sanders, Flavor Flav pitched a fit about it and Chuck D fired him. Last straw or not, this is absolutely a real thing happening in our real world. No, I don’t feel like this is reality either, for innumerable reasons.
- Finally, a Wednesday Walk Top Tip: If you’re going to make counterfeit money (neither Place to Be Nation Dot Com nor the Wednesday Walk explicitly endorse illegal activity), the least you could do is to not use it to rip off the girl scouts. That’s just abominable, and you can surely find much more deserving organizations. Like the Boy Scouts.
