I'm a fan of Mary Beard's popular talks and writings about ancient Greece and Rome and I also enjoy seeing a distinguished older woman with a face unmediated by filters, cosmetics or the art of the plastic surgeon. youtu.be/27PkbnxJ9gw?...

How the character of Ygor (or Igor, or is it Fritz?) evolved as an American pop culture icon, from the classic Universal horror films of the mid-20th century to the Monsters Unchained ride at Epic Universe. Hint: Quasimodo, Renfield and Peter Lorre got in the mix. archiveofourown.org/works/75922031

In the 1970s Robert Muller wrote this two-part Gothic horror teleplay for his wife, the distinguished actress Billie Whitelaw. It's like the best classic Hammer horror not actually made by Hammer. youtu.be/kAAyLGcLmgc?...

The Jewish Austrian-American actor Peter Lorre was listed by the FBI as a "premature antifascist" because of his activism against Hitler. After WWII he participated in protests against the House Un-American Activities Committee. I think Peter would want the Epstein files released.

I used to be on the Claude Rains Yahoogroup in the 1990s. Claude was what a fandom friend of mine calls a stealth sex symbol. This performer playing the walkaround Invisible Man at Epic Universe absolutely crushes both the character and that Claudian charisma. youtube.com/shorts/wVNms...

For Best Actor of 2025 I nominate the perfomers playing walkaround Ygor at Epic Universe. They should win it collectively, like Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller getting the Olivier for playing the same roles in Frankenstein. youtube.com/shorts/KFsIh...

this is so disturbing youtu.be/hKVsriqDmH8?...

If I wasn't boycotting Florida and didn't have BPPV I'd be at Epic Universe marathoning Monsters Unchained and following Ygor and the Invisible Man around all day. Instead I stayed home and wrote fanfic archiveofourown.org/series/5273356

Taika Waititi is a talented guy who's done good things in collaboration with other talents. But when he went Hollywood every project he touched, however lightly, got hyped by the media as a TAIKA WAITITI PRODUCTION and it did him no favors. That was never his vibe. youtu.be/pL71KhNmnls?...

I highly recommend Suetonius' Twelve Caesars for insights into what happens when spoiled, entitled dark personality disordered incompetents are given absolute power over a republican empire.