Mesila
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Post by Mesila on Sept 24, 2007 14:25:41 GMT -5
Anyone get what the name of my location means? There's no such thing as "North Colma" - but anyone from the place I am living, or anywhere near it, would likely immediately get why I am using it as a location.
This is just a screwy way of finding out, do any of you live near where I do...
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Post by Mesila on Sept 25, 2007 11:03:53 GMT -5
No takers, eh? C'mon this is an easy one. Am I all alone up here in North Colma?
Someday I'll likely inevitably move to Colma proper. Most of us up here do...
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 25, 2007 11:07:24 GMT -5
Do you live in West Virginia?
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Post by Mesila on Sept 26, 2007 6:51:00 GMT -5
Do you live in West Virginia? Nope. Right country. Wrong state. Here's the deal with Colma. An interesting place and as far as I know the only town of its kind in the US: www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 26, 2007 10:14:38 GMT -5
Ah, San Fran. Awesome.
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Post by 4barrelhemi on Sept 26, 2007 15:37:37 GMT -5
I had no idea lol
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Post by Mesila on Sept 26, 2007 16:08:56 GMT -5
Totally. I adore this city so much. I've been to other places. I did not care for them. It's too bad I'm all alone out here - so far it seems I'm the only one from the phan scene who lives anywhere near the Bay Area. SF is undergoing a lot of unfortunate changes as corporatism has been killing it like it's slowly wiping out everything else with any beauty or depth or originality in it. We've fought it off for decades though and this is the only American metropolis which still has no Wal-Mart - the corp tried again last year to stick us with one and failed. Our streets are lined with 1890s style Victorian homes and small businesses and downtown is full of psychedelic murals on street corners. There are lots and lots of hippies, punks and the like, even though not nearly as many as in the last century, the counterculture's influence seems to be perceptibly rising once again over the last two or three years. But it's fighting a hard battle against the high rents. That's likely why I'm alone up here...it's getting insane. That I have a place to live - in Diamond Heights yet - is only sheer good luck and the goodwill of my ex-lifepartner who's moving to England to be with his new girl friend and in order to keep the place someone has to live in it, since it was an inheritance, and that someone is me. He wasn't even going to charge me rent but I don't like to freeload so I'm likely the only San Franciscan who pays affordable rent. Everyone else is going insane with a single studio apartment in the crackhead neighbourhood going for $900 a month...the artists, musicians, film students etc. have been leaving in an exodus that carried most of them to Portland and Seattle and the rest to Vancouver. Everyone should see SF at least once in their lifetimes if they get a chance, and when you come, avoid the tourist traps and see the "real" city. And don't miss Colma...especially now that we have our subway run to it. Here's a great picture of Colma. I'd like to go tromping around down there and shoot some shots of the mausoleums (especially the Pyramid monument that this rich eccentric had made that encased him in glass or something - I'm not clear on the details) as soon as I can get a hold of a camera that has a decent memory charge. Article: Colma, Calif., Is a Town of 2.2 Square Miles, Most of It 6 Feet Deepwww.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/us/09cemetery.html?ex=1323320400&en=0aa1719b7d513007&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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Post by Natalie on Sept 26, 2007 16:48:49 GMT -5
I would not have gotten it.
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Post by Mesila on Sept 26, 2007 20:47:01 GMT -5
I would not have gotten it. In Illinois, at least Chicago, I remember seeing graveyards in the city limits...Also in Portland and LA. San Fran is the only city in America which banned cemeteries, so a whole bunch of bodies that were buried here 100 years ago got exhumed and moved to the area south of us and it became a place called Lawndale, appropriate name for a cemetery town. Some other Lawndale complained and the name got changed to Colma. It's kind of funny, since it is pronounced coh-ma not coal-ma. "People down there are in a Coma" they say. Along with the old standard cracks about how "Colma's such a great town! For 100 years, people all over the City have been dying to go there." And suchlike...
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 26, 2007 21:10:00 GMT -5
Seems like the perfect place for a Phantasm movie if you ask me.
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Post by Mesila on Sept 27, 2007 11:14:08 GMT -5
Seems like the perfect place for a Phantasm movie if you ask me. Naturally I thought the same thing...although I do hear that since the place is an incorporated town designed specifically for that purpose the security is hard to deal with. I am wondering if I'll even be able to get mausoleum pictures. Only way to find out is to try...though I've heard some tell that goths get rounded up and sent home when they try wandering around the cemeteries. Maybe that's only on Sundays though. I will just have to find a camera and figure it out. BTW, what's wrong with your avatar? It seems everyone's avatars are hitting the skids. If you ever need a web server to store them on let me know. That goes for anyone on this board.
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Post by gopher in heat on Sept 27, 2007 11:26:38 GMT -5
My avatar? It seems to be fine to me.
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Post by 4barrelhemi on Sept 27, 2007 15:47:07 GMT -5
That graveyard looks creepy and I love it!
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Post by Mesila on Sept 27, 2007 23:15:40 GMT -5
My avatar? It seems to be fine to me. This is weird, for some reason my provider seems to have blacklisted photobucket. Maybe they were involved in spamming...In any case the offer still stands, I have a dedicated server and it will never overload or break down.
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