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.
- Judaism is a proud and noble tradition that, blessedly, demands that its adherents eat fried food for eight days to celebrate an ancient victory against imperialism and forced assimilation. (I say this as one of the more assimilated Jews currently walking the Earth.) Combine this with another story marking the thematic importance of cheese, and you get a wonderful new tradition of celebrating Chanukkah with mozzarella sticks.
- You could also, of course, mark the festival of lights with the bong menorah. All right, all right, it’s actually a bong chanukiah, fine. Happy holidays, regardless.
- If you’re part of a company hoping to capitalize on Jewish holidays the same way you capitalize on Christian ones, you may want to do a little better than plastering a bunch of unrelated buzzwords on a shower curtain and selling it at the wrong time of year. Latkes mazel tov oil seder peace, everyone!
- A stunning new report has found that Yukon Cornelius is and has, in fact, always been a thicc daddy who could totally get it. Happy holidays, folks!
- December brings many fondly remembered, personal traditions, including the dear old Yule Log.
- But of course, the best part of the holiday season is the opportunity to pause one’s hectic work-a-day lifestyle to take a moment to truly reflect on the Folgers coffee incest ad. You, dear reader(s), are MY present this year.
- Many of us have fantasized about stringing a scammer along until they get a taste of their own medicine and give up trying to extort you, but so few of us have mastered the art like one person who just wanted to grease the skids a little.
- In the US you can get CBD-infused shampoo, chocolate, jewelry, mac & cheese, sparkling water, and just about anything else you can think of, but because CBD use isn’t regulated or backed by, y’know, evidence, it’s essentially just a new snake oil.
- Even at this late date, we’re still making important and intriguing discoveries about ancient civilizations like the Mycenaeans, whose society spawned the ancient Greeks whose traditions have survived so much better.
- At this monumentally later date, we’re also mapping the root systems of forests that lived 385 million years ago.
- Radiohead’s discography is available on YouTube — uh, I mean, legitimately this time. Otherwise, everyone’s discography is already on YouTube. Neither the Wednesday Walk nor The Place To Be Nation Dot Com endorses bootlegging, y’know.
