Colma is south of San Francisco. It’s where the city moved a vast majority of the buried once the land within San Francisco city limits became too valuable for cemeteries. The dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1 or some ridiculous ratio like that.
My favorite Colma joke: “It’s great to be alive in Colma!”
Two older guys fall asleep on BART one wakes up and nudges the other:
-“We missed our stop, we’re gonna end up in Colma”
-“Sooner or later we all end up in Colma” he replied
there is also some excellent wine country around Paso Robles… but again, nowhere close to Colma. I can’t imagine Gavotte getting anything wrong. Perhaps a “red” herring (or a white… or pink… in a box)?
Just because they happen to be dead, doesn’t mean they can’t grow a few grapes of their own. Fine spirits from beyond the grave (pun truly intended). Just don’t complain about the taste. (It’s just a bit . . . earthy.)
There is an absolute monarch buried there: Norton I, Emperor of These United States and Protector of Mexico. Whether he’s a vampire, I don’t know. He didn’t say anything about it when I was there. He didn’t say anything at all.
Shaenon sez Colma (south of SF) is mostly cemeteries because SF outlawed them (in 1900 according to Wikipedia), so if you die in SF, you end up in Colma.
tune: “Istanbul (not Constantinople),” Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon, 1953, popularized by The Four Lads, Bette Midler or They Might Be Giants, depending on your age
Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
Yes, Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
Well Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
They plant ’em, you see,
In the cemet’ry
Every corpse in old San Fran headed south
To Colma’s graveyards. Don’t like it? Shut your mouth!
Cuz Colma’s home to acres of grass that’s
Full of dead San Franciscan ass
San Franciscans said “You can’t get buried here”
Why’d they do it? Warn’t no room
So folks down in Colma rode the graveyard boom
If I drown in dear San Francisco
Won’t you lay me down in dear San Francisco
No, the law would frown, but near San Francisco
There’s a town full of people who are dead
In Colma we’ll bury you instead
Wyatt’s ashes are buried in Colma in the Jewish cemetery with his 4th (?) wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus, who was probably unaware that he had run out on at least two common-law wives before her…
… I’m honestly kind of disappointed to learn that the real Prop 39 wasn’t any civil rights legislation.
Also, California voted on 39 last year, which means that Skin Horse is taking place a year in past.
Which means that we can get excited for them having to deal with a government shutdown this time next year! (Maybe?)
Which Prop 39? I’m sure we’ve had at least two, as it seems they start again at One whenever the numbers get too high. [checks Wikipedia] Ah, every ten years, so 2018 they’ll reset. And looks like we’ve had three. None civil rights 🙁
I’m guessing all the obvious jokes about zombies and politicians are probably offensive to zombies, so I’ll refrain from commenting on government shutdowns.
Well, given the amount of havoc that the Skin Horse clientele can potentially wreak if left unattended (or wreek in the case of a town full of undead), I’m thinking that Skin Horse is considered an essential service, and therefore should remain unaffected by a government shutdown.
Also, maybe one of the Prop 39’s did deal with undead rights and it was just hidden in the fine print.
If they maintain that they are an independently sovereign nation they’ll probably end up in the same position as Native American tribes, where they exist somewhere in the same level of autonomy as the states, but don’t have direct influence within the federal government.
Who’s joking?
…wait, Colma is in Wine Country? I thought that was all north of the Golden Gate?
Colma is south of San Francisco. It’s where the city moved a vast majority of the buried once the land within San Francisco city limits became too valuable for cemeteries. The dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1 or some ridiculous ratio like that.
My favorite Colma joke: “It’s great to be alive in Colma!”
Two older guys fall asleep on BART one wakes up and nudges the other:
-“We missed our stop, we’re gonna end up in Colma”
-“Sooner or later we all end up in Colma” he replied
there is also some excellent wine country around Paso Robles… but again, nowhere close to Colma. I can’t imagine Gavotte getting anything wrong. Perhaps a “red” herring (or a white… or pink… in a box)?
Just because they happen to be dead, doesn’t mean they can’t grow a few grapes of their own. Fine spirits from beyond the grave (pun truly intended). Just don’t complain about the taste. (It’s just a bit . . . earthy.)
Hmmm…. thinking outside the coffin… and reality.. . what about a mushroom muscat? or a fungal cabernet franc?
(polite clapping)
Bravo. I actually find myself wondering how that would taste.
Monarchy? My bet’s on vampires…
There is an absolute monarch buried there: Norton I, Emperor of These United States and Protector of Mexico. Whether he’s a vampire, I don’t know. He didn’t say anything about it when I was there. He didn’t say anything at all.
Oh dear… And I do seem to recall someone talking about “The Emperor of the Necropolis”…
I thought it was the Zombie Queen? Her and Unity swapped elbows that one time!
Zombie Queen Elena is in Florida. The Necropolis is in California. And here was the strip I was thinking about: http://skin-horse.com/comic/amplified-along/
Zombies do seem more collectivist.
Shaenon sez Colma (south of SF) is mostly cemeteries because SF outlawed them (in 1900 according to Wikipedia), so if you die in SF, you end up in Colma.
tune: “Istanbul (not Constantinople),” Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon, 1953, popularized by The Four Lads, Bette Midler or They Might Be Giants, depending on your age
Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
Yes, Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
Well Colma’s home to all San Francisco’s dead
They plant ’em, you see,
In the cemet’ry
Every corpse in old San Fran headed south
To Colma’s graveyards. Don’t like it? Shut your mouth!
Cuz Colma’s home to acres of grass that’s
Full of dead San Franciscan ass
San Franciscans said “You can’t get buried here”
Why’d they do it? Warn’t no room
So folks down in Colma rode the graveyard boom
If I drown in dear San Francisco
Won’t you lay me down in dear San Francisco
No, the law would frown, but near San Francisco
There’s a town full of people who are dead
In Colma we’ll bury you instead
Oh, and Wyatt Earp’s buried there, which is way cool.
Wyatt’s ashes are buried in Colma in the Jewish cemetery with his 4th (?) wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus, who was probably unaware that he had run out on at least two common-law wives before her…
I read a collection of letters by Wyatt. Quite an interesting guy.
Singing this at “They Might Be Giants”s speed is pretty damn hard, but worth it.
… I’m honestly kind of disappointed to learn that the real Prop 39 wasn’t any civil rights legislation.
Also, California voted on 39 last year, which means that Skin Horse is taking place a year in past.
Which means that we can get excited for them having to deal with a government shutdown this time next year! (Maybe?)
Which Prop 39? I’m sure we’ve had at least two, as it seems they start again at One whenever the numbers get too high. [checks Wikipedia] Ah, every ten years, so 2018 they’ll reset. And looks like we’ve had three. None civil rights 🙁
I’m guessing all the obvious jokes about zombies and politicians are probably offensive to zombies, so I’ll refrain from commenting on government shutdowns.
Well, given the amount of havoc that the Skin Horse clientele can potentially wreak if left unattended (or wreek in the case of a town full of undead), I’m thinking that Skin Horse is considered an essential service, and therefore should remain unaffected by a government shutdown.
Also, maybe one of the Prop 39’s did deal with undead rights and it was just hidden in the fine print.
(TUNE: “Downtown”, Tony Hatch)
At the Necropolis,
If you want to stop with us
Then you must stay …
Downwind!
After Prop 39
Is passed, then that sort of line
Gets blown away!
Downwind!
Just south of San Francisco is the city of the undead!
Only get admitted if our team at least has one dead
Member along …
So don’t be afraid of death,
You’ve got to throw back your shoulders,
And take a deep breath,
And stay …
Downwind
Of the Necropolis!
Downwind!
Nothing smells worse than this!
Downwind!
Sinuses, you can kiss
‘Bye!
I’m not sure which I like better, this comic or the filks it spawns.
*plip*
As much as I want to believe that Skin Horse would be considered an essential service, given than WIC wasn’t (source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57605501/wic-support-for-moms-babies-threatened-during-shutdown/ ), I wouldn’t be too sure…
Figured they meant Colma. Say hi to my Mom’s family’s bar, Skin Horse!
If they maintain that they are an independently sovereign nation they’ll probably end up in the same position as Native American tribes, where they exist somewhere in the same level of autonomy as the states, but don’t have direct influence within the federal government.