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There's a part of my writer's brain that switches off the social normalizing mechanism that would often give another sane person pause when typing a similar phrase into google, but for me it [...]

The oldest and most famous of the three Roman Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans stands on the edge of the area that was once Storyville -- the former red light district -- on the outskirts of [...]

Stuff! Being the third collection of curiosities, oddities, and wonders discovered online -- I've got some new stuff for you. I tend to aggregate a bunch of weird and wonderful saved links as I'm [...]

I read a book a few years ago about the secret gardens of New Orleans. I was obsessed with the city at the time -- the cemeteries, the food, the bleat of horns falling from Preservation Hall into [...]

Highgate Cemetery sits atop Highgate Hill in London, and is the most acclaimed of the Magnificent Seven: a Victorian garden cemetery that fell to disrepair since the 60’s, and is now maintained [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I've landed myself in the final scenes of Wake the Dead. Since a lot of the story takes place at Highgate Cemetery West, I've been gingerly poking around my archives to [...]