northernrainforest.bsky.social
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My mother hoped I'd be a literary novelist like Iris Murdoch or Cormac McCarthy. Instead I became a small-time arts journalist with a Peter Lorre fansite. Her disappointment still haunts me but you can't make a sachertorte out of a Tootsie Roll.
No time for a lady to be dragging her feathers around in the snow. youtu.be/OTns5EnMGjI?...
Baltimore Oriole
YouTube video by Bob Dorough - Topic
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December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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.

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Ygor @ Epic Universe 😱
YouTube video by Park Vids
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December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
this is so disturbing youtu.be/hKVsriqDmH8?...
Dark Universe - Catacombs Audio Segments
YouTube video by Bryan Jay
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December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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
Bride of Ygor - itdontcomeeasy - Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment (Universal Parks Attraction), Universal Monsters Universe [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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.

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The Art of Creativity | Taika Waititi | TEDxDoha
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December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM