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, occasionally, profound. Views expressed in the Wednesday Walk do not necessarily reflect those of anyone but the writer.
- ICYMI, my dear friend Alanna and I have a new podcast out about Stranger Things 2. If you need a recap of season 1, Millie Bobbie Brown has your hookup.
- Also in television, things are getting serious this season on House Hunters.
- RIP Giovanni Melton, murdered by a father who would rather have a dead son than a gay one.
- Contestants in the Miss Peru competition awesomely refused to rattle off their body measurements and gave statistics about violence against women instead.
- I can’t wait to catch the new Thor in 4D.
- Hey dogg, I hard you like Jeff Goldblum, so here’s Goldbum rating Goldblum tattoos on a scale of 1-10 Goldblums.
- The citizens of Florida have been doing important front-line research for us all, most recently finding out that you can indeed get pulled over for drunk-driving a horse.
- This Week in Art Produced under Limits: The background of this illustration will surprise you.
- Go ahead and get Terry Crews on your credit card; he’s cool with it.
- Björk’s new album will come with the hot new music-industry cryptocurrency. I think this is where I admit that I do not understand cryptocurrency, like, at all. I know that it’s favored by a lot of people I find contemptible, but otherwise I don’t really get it.
- This exploration of the disturbing intersection of automation and disturbing imagery in children’s YouTube videos, and the difficulty in telling the difference leans heavily toward a Lovecraftian style of horror at the edge of madness…significantly moreso than most writing about online media, at least, though there is a trend. There may be dark times ahead for the denizens of the PTBN Dadcast, Geek & Sassy, and other parents in our community.
- Meanwhile, we can all take a second to be insulted by Martin Luther. Insult me again, Luther! Luther, I’ve been bad.
- Taxidermy is more interesting than you might think. “When I was a toddler, my grandmother would always say, “Skin the bunny!” as she pulled a sweater off over my head, which seemed creepy at the time but is in fact an extremely accurate description of skinning a bunny.”
- Marshawn Lynch is a national treasure.
- Marc-André Hamelin’s Ringtone Waltz is delightful, and should hharmonize well when people’s phones go off in the concert hall. Think I’ll make it my ringtone.
- This Week in Cat Videos: I have found footage of the greatest gamer on the internet.