A Grave with a View
Add this to list of places I need to visit:
“In 1893, Tim died in Middlebury, Vermont on Halloween ironically enough1. His body was interred at the Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, VT in a specially prepared grave. Beneath the odd, grassy mound of earth, Timothy’s face was positioned beneath a cement tube that led to the surface. The 6 foot tube ended at a piece of 14×14 inch plate glass allowing Tim to gaze upward in the event that he was buried alive. A bell was placed in his hand just in case he needed to signal that he was still alive.”
Via Candleblog via Boing Boing via vermonter.com
1 I conferred with my crack team of experts, this is not ironic at all.
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Ghosts in the Night
So yeah, throwing snowballs at random dudes hanging out with their pickups and drinking beer was quite funny. I was the last one to go by and I through a flower—made me fell like Ralph Wiggum. It went about two feet.
We ended up on North Ave. Someone mentioned the graveyard. Good idea. Graveyard it is. We cruised around the boneyard for awhile. When we stopped to regroup (for the 23rd time that night) the game “Ghosts in the Graveyard” was mentioned. Hey, we’re in a graveyard, why not?
Here’s how to play (correct me if I’m wrong): One person is the ghost catcher and everyone else has to run around making their best ghost noise. When the ghost catcher tags you, you start hunting ghosts. I found a hole in the ground and sat it in doing a sort of bebop ghost noise. It was one of those times that I wish I had a Theremin with me.
RADAR[theory], what did I forget?