# Heliogabalus: The Worst Roman Emperor? Heliogabalus 3 / 3 Blog 2026-06-27 Mort O'Della 22 min read Part II: Heliogabalus takes power and does a very, very bad job.
# Supplemental Mad Emperor Thoughts Heliogabalus 2 / 3 Blog 2026-06-17 Mort O'Della 2 min read See book on StoryGraph!
# That Time Rome Had A Transgender Child Emperor Heliogabalus 1 / 3 Blog 2026-06-16 Mort O'Della 13 min read For Pride Month, here's me infodumping about Heliogabalus, one of Rome's most fascinating leaders.
# The Compleat Gamester Blog 2023-12-08 Mort O'Della 19 min read London: 1674. It has been eight years since the Great Fire destroyed the medieval city. King Charles II, 14 years into his restoration, has just signed the Second Peace of Westminster, marking an end…
# Disaster-Ballad Genealogy Blog 2020-10-09 Mort O'Della 10 min read Probably over a year ago, the song M.T.A. by the Kingston Trio came on and it sounded really familiar, but I couldn’t place why. Given that I’ve recently moved to the Boston area I figured I’d give…
# Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (VHS, 2000) Blog 2019-12-27 Mort O'Della 14 min read Well, Cats: The Movie is out, and it seems like it’s the complete mess that everyone expected it to be. I’m excited to eventually see it (hopefully with friends, inebriated, at 2AM) because I’ve…
# Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Sparknotes) Blog 2019-12-27 Mort O'Della 24 min read Link back to the main post.
# 19th Century Meme Theft Blog 2019-10-16 Mort O'Della 11 min read This post is adapted from a talk I gave as part of the University of Rochester’s Music Interest Floor “Tune Up” talks. It’s about the history of the “pizza song” from Spiderman 2 for the PS2:
