If there's one thing everybody loves it's a graveyard! So let's make a list of "links" to all our graveyard-related "posts" (and don't forget to "enjoy" our previous "blog"trospectives: 1.
Tom Franklin 2.
Phil Oppenheim 3.
Movies 4.
The Moon 5.
Sandwiches 6.
The United States 7.
The Beach Boys 8.
Arnold Stang 9.
Books With Owls in Them 10.
Gelatin 11.
Monkeys Riding Dogs 12.
Kent Eating Chicken 13.
When Megan Lived Here)... GRAVEYARDS!
APOSTLE by Tom Bissell features visits to the graves of all twelve apostles---
artsy project includes grave desecration---
barbecue next to a graveyard---
bats at Faulkner's grave---
being funny after a funeral---
"The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church"---
Bissell, Tom; plays Marvel Ultimate Alliance while he should be searching for the apostles' graves---
Bissell, Tom; searches for the graves of all 12 apostles---
block of wood psychologically represents a coffin---
Bohemond's gravestone---
Britton, Connie; sighted when we were staying at a motel with a graveyard attached to it---
character in DRACULA wakes unclad in a churchyard at night---
churchyard with gravestones in THE COMPANY OF WOLVES---
circus performers' graveyard---
coffin inspectors---
coffinmaker who yells about his craft, a---
confounded from beyond the grave---
corpse preserved in a bog; Freud allegedly likened to---
cowherd lies in open graves---
Dee, Dr. John; grave of used as touchstone in children's game---
discussion of appropriate things to carve on gravestones---
doll cemetery---
dream of---
eating dirt from the graveyard---
engraving of Dr. Dee and Edward Kelly hanging out with a spirit in a churchyard---
Evans, Linda; slaps a man with a leather strap at her father's grave---
exhumation of Tycho Brahe---
fairybabes hang around in---
famed ventriloquist confronts his mother's ghost at her grave---
few loose rails thrown over Meriwether Lewis's grave, a---
flea climbs into the grave of the flea who loved him---
frogs as quiet as grave-rocks---
funeral bell---
Gigot peeks through some graveyard shrubbery at his own funeral---
grave gone to without its occupant being aware of the entire catalog of celebrity memoirs I have read---
graves of the Scribner family---
graveside service for Thomas Paine poorly attended---
graveyard right there in the parking lot of a Ramada Inn---
guy dug up from his grave and mocked on a throne---
hair growing out of cracked-open tombs---
Hayden, Sterling; attends the funeral of Marshal Tito---
I am reminded of something Bill Taft said to me in a graveyard---
Johnson, Robert; disputed gravesites of---
Lee, Sir Henry; has an effigy of Mistress Vavasour placed on his grave---
listening to "Brick House" by the Commodores on the way to Meriwether Lewis's grave---
man buried under the flagstones of a kitchen---
man who collects coffins, a---
mansion where the arrangements for Jayne Mansfield's funeral were made, the---
Mature, Victor; consults the caretaker of a cemetery---
McNeil ponders a career as a graverobber---
men run howling about graves---
monkey ghost described outside of tomb---
monks rob a grave!---
mortuary makeup man---
Murray, Bill; attends the funeral of Elvis Presley---
my brother attends Michael Jackson's memorial service (there's no graveyard here but you can "click" back on several interesting "posts" about the day, so why not?)---
Naked-Rumped Tomb Bat---
night-crows on tombs---
ominous crow cawing in a graveyard's barren tree---
"Pale Pity" asked to consecrate Meriwether Lewis's final resting place---
parrot screams curse words at Andrew Jackson's funeral---
pasta recipes inscribed on tomb---
PET SEMATARY---
pigs get skinny after drinking from a trough made from a coffin---
pinball machines as coffins---
"Policeman at Cemetery"---
purported King Arthur and Guinevere dug up from their graves and wrapped in silk---
resting place of the Biblical Jacob---
Roman vampire burial site---
Saunders, George; writes book set in a graveyard---
shirtless man reads at grave---
shrugging disrespectfully at graveside---
Shubuta cemetery---
STRIKING DISTANCE (film) concludes at cemetery---
supposed gravestone of Till Eulenspiegel---
toad dressed as Elvis suggested as candidate for formal burial in a grave---
tomb of Talbot, the terror of the French---
tombs of the prophets, the---
"Tombstone Blues"---
trip to Poe's grave postponed in favor of GILMORE GIRLS finale---
UFO lands behind a cemetery---
Van, Bobby; grave of---
witches dance on Berlioz's grave---
Yorick skull (from gravedigger's scene in HAMLET)---
York, Joe; makes a complex and satisfying visual pun using a gravestone---
youthful graveyard encounters of Megan Abbott and Barry Hannah---
Zola heroine lives next door to a drunken undertaker.
