Dark Rats Rising

I've nearly finished Gary Lachman's book Dark Star Rising. Today I spontaneously noticed that star is an anagram of rats. "Dark Rats," specifically as an anagram of something else, made me think of my 2021 post "Mr. Icthus-oress, the Dark Mice, and why I do this," which featured "Dark Mice" as an anagram/spoonerism of the name of YouTuber Mark Dice. I recently posted about two mice -- Aesop's City Mouse and Country Mouse -- in "Gators, frogs, bathroom privacy, and the Heart Sutra." Just as this recent post's title begins with "Gators," the title of the 2021 post begins with "Mr. Icthus-oress" -- i.e., Ichthyosaurus, another predatory aquatic reptile.

Tom Mouse, one of the "Dark Mice" in the 2021 post, is linked to the Egyptian god of the setting sun. The "Dark Rats" in the present post were derived from a reference to a rising star.