If
you're interested in celebrity graves and related topics (and isn't that why
you're here?), here are a few more sites you might be interested in:
Looking for great art, wonderful gifts and just generally cool stuff to celebrate the
Day of the Dead ... and every other day? Then you've got to check out
Frenzy Art for the great hand-painted glassware
and art cards. I picked up the coolest salt-and-pepper shaker set, a wonderful wine glass
and a shot glass that makes me wish I drank more. Check out the DiabloWare clock, cake dome
or martini shaker!
All the stuff is wonderfully priced and, if you don't pick up something for yourself, you
can always buy more stuff for me!!
City Morgue Gift Shop is a great
site to purchase death-related memorabilia, including T-shirts, bumper stickers,
jewelry, celebrity death certificates and all sorts of stuff. The site even has
a virtual "Celebrity Cemetery," with dozens of photos of celebrity graves
(including a few taken by me!).
Find-A-Grave includes information on an
incredible 2.5 million graves around the world. The site includes an extensive
and easily searchable listing of celebrity graves, often with photos, and also a
searchable database of "non-famous" graves. If they're dead, they're probably
here. And they'll show you where to find 'em, too.
About 25 years ago, when I was still living in the Midwest and visiting LA, the
very first celebrity grave I saw was Marilyn Monroe's. Even though there have
been tons of books written about Marilyn, her life and especially her death,
there's a brand new book out called "Marilyn
by Moonlight" that features more than 140 previously unpublished photos of
Marilyn gathered by the "Marilyn Remembered" fan club, and digitally restored
to their original beauty. A truly unique and beautifully original book.
A
coroner's office with a gift shop? Only in Los Angeles. The L.A. County
Coroner's office operates a gift shop, with proceeds going to the county's
Youthful Drunk Driver Visitation Program, which is an alternative sentencing
option that focuses on drug, alcohol, and weapons-related offenses, in addition
to driving under the influence and other driving offenses. Sentencing in this
program involves a tour of the morgue and witnessing an actual autopsy. (I
wonder if they allow non-offenders to sign up for the program.) Anyway, the gift
shop offers T-shirts, hats, coffee cups, pens, beach towels and dozens of other
products -- even toe tags! -- with most featuring the logo of the coroner's
office.
Who said death can't be a fun, interactive process? Find out how
long you've got to live (and how you can make it longer) at
LongToLive.com. You can check
your life expectancy with the "Death Clock," read famous last words,
and look for dead people through the Social Security Death Index. (I don't
want to tell you how long the "Death Clock" gave me, but it did say I shouldn't
buy any green bananas, shouldn't get interested in any two-part movies on
television, and if I take anything to the dry cleaners, I should get the
same-day service.)
The
Internet Movie Database offers all the information you could ever want about
just about every movie ever made. With complete cast lists, reviews and user
comments, this is the perfect companion for those late nights watching old
movies on cable television, when you just have to know which veteran
character actor played the police inspector in that old gangster movie.
And here are a few links to some other
great grave-hunter sites:
Steve Goldstein's Beneath Los Angeles
Karen McHale's Hollywood Underground
Ally Wicker's Grave Hunter
Lisa Burks Writer Grrl
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