Taken from a blog where I wrote about horror movies. Yes, there will be Mummies, factual and fictional. Watched Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy for the first time in years and... hmmm.  It was enjoyable enough. I didn't enjoy it as much as I did when I watched it last- five or six years ago- mostly because I've rewatched The Mummy's Hand several times in the interim and the idea of two Americans in Egypt (A&C here and Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jensen (Wallace Ford) in TMH), down on their luck, enmeshed in an adventure that takes them to a lost tomb where they have to contend with a Mummy and the head of an ancient cult... well it kind of wore out with me. Fortunately, it had A&C hijinks and the comedy made up for what I'd seen before, including some sufficiently silly parts I had to rewind to watch again- including a bit where the femme fatale is trying to seduce Lou by giving him all her contact information. Also, the wonderfully disco

Welcome to The House of Bast. I started it as a Facebook page for the tribe of Ferals I've been feeding and helping and it fed into my interest in Ancient Egypt and now here I am! There will be lots of cat pictures.  Of course there will be- this is the internet. I'm also doing a lot of reading about Ancient Egypt and as I do, I'll share my thoughts on what I've read as well as sharing news stories about Egyptology. But mostly cats.