This week is Kreskin heavy since he's been a little needy lately.  First among equals and all that.

Well, Halloween was so off the hook last week I actually forgot to hit publish.  I will fix that. This week, I'm lamenting a lost opportunity:  the Fox television show Hieroglyph. Historical fantasy that was probably more eye candy than factual, it was canceled before the first episode was broadcast. Here's a look at what we missed. A comment on the YouTube page explained that the fangs here belong to a cat-like being... hmmmm.

 Writing this November 3, 2022.  Tomorrow it will be a hundred years since the tomb of Tutankhamun  was discovered.  The news didn't show up in the New York Times til December 1.

 This is inspired by a post in a Facebook group I'm in: someone was asking for gift suggestions for his wife.  I realized Museum gift shops would be the place to look. I have to apologize for the American centricness of the list.  If you have some suggestions, please include them in the comments.   My primary criteria is specifically a Museum shop with LOTS of Ancient Egyptian themed merchandise. Two exceptions: the Metropolitan Opera, thanks to their productions of Akhnaten and Aida, and what I can only imagine is the distributor to most of the American museums- but I suggest trying the actual museums first as they derive a lot of their funding from sales. Here we go: The Metropolitan Museum  in New York City The Getty Museum in Los Angeles The Field Museum in Chicago The de Young Museum in San Francisco The Louvre in Paris The British Museum in London The Egyptian Museum in Turin The Metropolitan Opera Shop for Akhnaten  and Aida The Museum Store Also- the links are pre-sor

 Well this week, watching Rage of the Mummy, I managed to make it to EIGHT minutes.   The opening credits aren't bad.  It makes the transition from credits to story using a comic book as a framing device and that's probably where the budget went.  Dunno. The Mummy's tomb has been plundered by a group of evil occultism called The Pharaohs of Darkness.  They're auctioning off the artifacts among their members, "but first let's go around the room and introduce ourselves." That was when I had to stop. It might have gotten better but I wasn't going to risk it. My advice: pass on this one, too.

I love free stuff. Educational free stuff? Even better.  Links below to several of my favorite libraries online.  Make some tea, grab some munchies, settle in and go wild.  You'll be down the rabbit hole for hours. This was prepared with the assistance of Marvin cat. (All links have been set to direct to Egyptological content for simplicity's sake.) Sidestone Press: "Open Science is central to our publishing philosophy: we believe that scientific information should be freely available to all. Through our own digital e-book library we guarantee that scientific information published through Sidestone Press is immediately freely available around the world. Our authors always retain the copyright of their research and are free to share  PDF s of their work."  Here The British Museum:  "The British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) is a peer-reviewed, academic publication. BMSAES is dedicated to presenting research on aspects of ancient Egypt and Suda