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thaddeusfavour

Cemetery Rating System

Sep 23, 2009 22:26

While watching TCM tonight, a blurb came on about Cinespia, an organization that shows films in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This in and of itself sounds pretty interesting, a lovely open air evening, picnic dinners, gravestones and movies. However, what struck my husband was this phrase: A fully functioning cemetery by day. The person was ( Read more... )

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bodlon September 24 2009, 14:00:50 UTC

This is quite excellent. However, you've missed out other forms of undead likely to converge on (and/or rise from) burial grounds.

Should I not concern myself with them?

thaddeusfavour September 24 2009, 17:53:11 UTC

Well, if you're going to hang around in these places after dark, we should probably have a more comprehensive rating system!

So, vampires? Ghouls? Wraiths? Crazy corpse stealers? OH! Igor too! (Why is this turning into some weird ass video game? I'm picturing a frogger style game with your icon avoiding various undead as you navigate a cemetary.)

elainasaunt September 24 2009, 20:53:47 UTC

You are so delightfully strange. You must come see Parisian cemeteries.

thaddeusfavour September 24 2009, 20:56:24 UTC

Thank you! The hubby and I are well matched.

I would LOVE to see a Parisian cemetary! Very much. I don't know why, but I find cemeterys fascinating.

elainasaunt September 24 2009, 22:30:14 UTC

Ooh, me too. I used to come away from old ones in the Northeast U.S. with my fingertips all green from tracing moss-covered inscriptions with them. My idea of a fun day.

They say that at the central Parisian site of the Cemetery of the Innocents, which was closed and emptied and built over long ago, the ground was so super-saturated with human remains that bones still turn up any time construction work is done there.