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.
- At its 40th anniversary, The Muppet Movie still stands up wonderfully, partly because of its fantastic music that’s catchy and goofy and intelligent all at the same time.
- This Week in Food: One Dairy Queen in Greenwood, South Carolina recently confirmed that human meat is NOT used for the restaurant’s burgers. Don’t be too disappointed, though, there’re plenty of other Dairy Queens.
- Lots of people are raving about the new trailer for The Mandalorian, and while I’m not super duper enthusiastic about it, I must admit the creators made some interesting creative choices.
- It seems Junkie XL has been recording himself reacting to some of the classics of film music over on his YouTube channel, which is actually a neat idea for a film musician with a YouTube following. His video on Total Recall does earn no small amount of side-eye, though, when he says that integrating synths with the orchestra wasn’t usual for Jerry Goldsmith, when one might be hard-pressed to name more than a handful of Goldsmith scores from the 80’s onward that didn’t feature some type of synth.
- The struggle against measles in the US and other countries in the global north, since a miraculously effective vaccine was developed, is now mostly a struggle against the anti-vaccine claptrap that keeps the disease alive, a sociological and political struggle that’s in many ways more difficult.
- Usually, a person illicitly using their estranged spouse’s bank login to spy on them during bitter separation proceedings isn’t going to make news. Unless, of course, it’s an astronaut doing it to her ex-wife from the International Space Station. It’s like the sages said — be gay, do crime…IN SPACE.
- Okay, okay, it IS a little disappointing that the first Space Crime, particularly Gay Space Crime, is actually just run-of-the-mill financial misdeeds. Maybe something closer to suburban Connecticut’s geriatric public orgy would’ve been more satisfying. We should all be so lucky as to still have that much joie de vivre at that age.
- This Week in Arthouse Film: Clue, But Just Tim Curry turns a modern classic into a bewildering, confounding journey of one man throughout his lonely, lonely mansion.
- Also in artistic manipulation, Jason Anderson’s hand-pixelated oil paintings cast the oil painting in an intriguing light.
- The urge to believe that there are miracle cures out there that ~~they~~ don’t want you to know about must be incredibly, incredubly strong, if it drives people to drink bleach. Folks, please don’t drink bleach, or let anyone around you do it. Wasn’t “go drink bleach” one of those insults we used to use as little kids because our parents were too uptight about swearing?
- Indonesia is moving its capital, because Jakarta is overcrowded, polluted, and sinking.
- I hope the rubber chicken hasn’t exhausted its fifteen minutes of fame, because it’s just getting around to covering classic rock.
- The Hubble Space Telescope recently took a new portrait of Jupiter that highlights the ongoing shrinking of the Great Red Spot.
