by Court | Jan 20, 2021
My dearest goblin children:HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY! I don’t have Cemetery Part III ready because I’ve been spending all of my time completing my mandatory continuing legal education hours. If you don’t know, lawyers in California have to do 25 hours every two years....
by Court | Jan 12, 2021
Before Madame Tussaud’s there were…traveling pickled heads. And in late 19th Century San Francisco, it made A MINT. For $1 (THAT’S $30 NOW), you could see the severed head of notorious Californio Joaquin Murrieta, preserved in a jar of alcohol, at King John’s...
by Court | Jan 6, 2021
Dear Friends:Welcome to 2021! Isn’t it amazing how everything changed overnight from a smoldering apocalyptic doomscape to a brand new hell free world???? Ughhhh, right. What the fuck were we thinking.It’s time to combine post-holiday, seasonal, AND pandemic related...
by Court | Jan 6, 2021
On this day in 1914, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared San Francisco’s cemeteries a public nuisance, and voted to have all remains moved. At the time, there were an estimated 100,000 people buried here, and cemetery owners, politicians, and local...
by Court | Jan 4, 2021
Did you know that Alma Spreckles and her husband, Adolph, had a special crypt designed and built directly under Rodin’s The Thinker, at the Legion of Honor? Apparently they couldn’t use it because San Francisco law prohibited further burials, but let’s think about it...
