Hollywood Forever’s new mausoleum is a five-story “hyper heavy” structure to designed to "enthusiastically invite visitors inside"

Inside Hollywood Forever cemetery's new high-rise mausoleum - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/FnpxyM6RKv

— Hector Becerra (@hbecerraLATimes) December 19, 2024

"This is a hyper hyper, hyper heavy building." (Architect's site.)

Today's funny posts

Received this at my grandmas funeral. What an icon. pic.twitter.com/EhxhzHJfoZ

— gracie perryman (@qrracie) October 18, 2022

This Thor 3 illustration would be a good print for a workout area; Japan's high-tech cemeteries; The gruesome Star Trek transporter accident

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Ten funny tweets

me: i need to keep the cat off the counter

gran: tinfoil

me: that's craz-

gran: tinfoil pic.twitter.com/EVykKAh40E

— elle "thank god it's spring" the killer (@notfunnyelle) March 8, 2020

someday everyone will be able to immediately pick out all the millennial gravestones because everyone else's will be like "loving husband, wings of angels" and ours will be like
"thank fuck"
"a very good boi"
"1995-2064. nice."
"she died doing what she loved: being murdered"

— Brianna Shrum (@BriannaShrum) March 9, 2020

In honour of Oscar Isaac’s birthday, let’s revisit the best photo ever taken: pic.twitter.com/Plh6bnRaqQ

— Jason Carlos (@jaarlos) March 9, 2020

Also in tears at Kevin Owens pointing out Angelo Dawkins to Seth Rollins right before Seth got absolutely wrecked pic.twitter.com/rEmGssaadU

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) March 9, 2020

Tip for new authors:

Make sure your author signature is different from your legal signature.

— Rae Carson (@raecarson) March 9, 2020

This remains the most painfully accurate portrayal of a corporate job I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/g1pNRLjnHE

— Tauriq Moosa (@tauriqmoosa) March 7, 2020

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER pic.twitter.com/4UZXiws4VK

— Mae is gae (@theepictheymer) March 7, 2020

This has had me laughing all evening pic.twitter.com/a56uNUbLm6

— Carter (@Cartersvisions) March 7, 2020

Bro I was just checking the wall. 😁😁

pic.twitter.com/3VWIktubtI

— Figen.. (@TheFigen) March 8, 2020

When your pup doesn't like to get her face wet pic.twitter.com/lnEPY0tusI

— badly drawn bee 🐝 (@soapachu) March 8, 2020

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Fourth century skull with wreath of ceramic flowers

Skull of a young girl dating to the Hellenistic period (4th/3rd cent BC). The wreath is made of ceramic flowers and fruits, and is located at the Archaeological Museum at Patras, Greece. Thanks to u/Ergorath for posting this interesting find on Reddit.#history pic.twitter.com/9PAoGRJddZ

— Derek | The Hellenistic Age Podcast (@HellenisticPod) December 29, 2019

(From this Reddit discussion.)

Related:

Dracula Parrots are a thing. DRACULA PARROTS. pic.twitter.com/xHMUIwb5mk

— Daniel Benneworth-Gray (@gray) February 26, 2020

Hired to be a Grave Gardener

Good news team. I've been selected to be a Grave Gardener at the Woodlands Cemetery. We carry on the 19c practice of honoring the dead by growing little gardens in these cradle graves 'of the French style.' I will do my best by little Mary Gebhard, interred June 11, 1857 at age 9 pic.twitter.com/VmEW0VoWo4

— Steph Dick (@mysdick) February 22, 2020

We are meant to grow period appropriate beauties so if you need me I'll be reading about the language of Victorian grave flowers and their occult properties at the library. Incidentally does anyone know what this fern thing is?? pic.twitter.com/h99V99QX4D

— Steph Dick (@mysdick) February 22, 2020

If, like me, you run in the Woodlands, Mary is in section L - 140 just off the outer dirt path behind the mansion in the back. Come say hi and see what we are growing. pic.twitter.com/kMuyr8AbFQ

— Steph Dick (@mysdick) February 22, 2020

Victim of the Beast tombstone

So this is an actual grave in a Salt Lake City cemetery and I'm officially obsessed. pic.twitter.com/vbp5GVbqDD

— Meagan Navarro (@HauntedMeg) January 23, 2020

*Previously: Russia's Gangster Graveyards

Ten more funny tweets

Leo/Virgo cusp here, the combo is definitely Chaos Virgo.

— olivia conti (@olliegrace) September 1, 2019

The old woman I’m cat sitting for has her mugshot framed. What a boss bitch. pic.twitter.com/sja6sF6XpJ

— Neanderthot (@smashyouburn) August 31, 2019

Feels like I need to share this exceedingly fierce headstone I saw at Hollywood Forever yesterday pic.twitter.com/70d3PFVc1i

— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) September 1, 2019

Just had the pleasure of passing the big field in Fort Greene Park in a cab and watching fifty parents bloom their umbrellas simultaneously over their children as it started to rain

— Jia Tolentino (@jiatolentino) September 2, 2019

Upset that my friend waited until today to tell me the story of seeing Elton John and Billy Joel in concert, how the piano didn't work, and Billy Joel took off his sportsjacket to get under the piano to fix it, like a car

— The provost-man is always CC'd twice (@rajandelman) September 1, 2019

the trainer told me I needed to assert dominance over my dog so that he would respect and obey me so I had no choice... pic.twitter.com/NA1QbHsKjz

— jordan (@jcraigopro) August 31, 2019

waiter: would you like a soup or salad?

clark kent: [laughs nervously] a super salad? i'll just have a regular salad please

waiter: alri-

clark kent: [loudly] a regular salad for a regular man

— online moose 🦌 (@tiemoose) September 1, 2019

Please. Demogorgons are such a Department of Energy thing.

— DARPA (@DARPA) August 28, 2019

as i get older my desire for superpowers shifts away from “i wish i could fly” and more towards “i wish i could concentrate when i am hungry”

— joshua schachter (@joshu) September 1, 2019

Why every parent should own a nanny cam pic.twitter.com/c26PA90kfg

— Aussies Doing Things (@aussiesdointhgs) August 30, 2019

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"Ground-penetrating radar has detected what appear to be more than 120 coffins under an apartment complex in Tampa"

Tampa Bay Times:

The 2½-acre, segregation-era burial ground, believed to be the city’s first for African-Americans, was established in 1901 along the 3700 block of Florida Ave. and extended back around 400 feet.

It disappeared nearly a century ago when the land was parceled off for white developments.

No one tried to find it until now.

*Previously: Cemetery frequented by kangaroos.

Ten funny tweets

me on linkedin, instagram and twitter pic.twitter.com/FKN54w62XW

— ▀▀▀▀▀▀ (@immolations) April 8, 2019

literally impossible to work under these conditions. pic.twitter.com/i2ceqcpiY1

— Anthony Petrie (@zombiebacons) April 7, 2019

This guy went to my Instagram and liked every photo without me in it, which is maybe the meanest thing you can do to another person.

— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) April 7, 2019

This reminds me of how the guy from the Moka Pot company was cremated and put in an oversized Moka Pot, leading to the greatest Catholic image of all time: pic.twitter.com/ysB95uP1KI

— Andy G. B. (@andrewbloomberg) April 7, 2019

Fuck pic.twitter.com/7z1rm8MYCa

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 7, 2019

The original "pocket spaghetti" story is so, so much funnier than the 4chan meme it inspired. pic.twitter.com/Ko26Nj09m3

— Stone Cold Steve Autism (@SeanRMoorhead) April 7, 2019

look at this picture my mom drew of my cat pic.twitter.com/xwOTKys2nc

— kor 🐦 (@birdloaves) April 5, 2019

im thinking about the most chaotic person ive ever known, one of my former retail managers who would burn candles in her car while she drove because "air fresheners aren't as good of a value"

— SadeVEVO (@fillegrossiere) April 5, 2019

So the Secret Service stuck Zhang's thumbdrive into their computer. https://t.co/0T6LAfOtEl pic.twitter.com/RSfUgw4I4n

— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) April 8, 2019

Playing the shell game with a mountain lion pic.twitter.com/KF9uFDPR94

— Awwwww (@AwwwwCats) April 8, 2019

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Businessweek on cities running out of gravesites:

To tackle the shortage in burial grounds, London passed a 2007 law allowing authorities to dig up graves at least 75 years old to make way for new ones.

A House Awaiting Death

A House Awaiting Death - - designed by Eastern Design Office for a client in Japan who expected to die in fifteen years. You can read all about the symbolism of the design here.