Interesting reader mail

[cupcake_goth]

This is one of the emails that turned up in the Gothic Charm School inbox this morning:

It was recently brought to my attention by way of a post on one of my forums that
you will be holding a tea party in a cemetery to celebrate your book release.

I just wanted to say that I think this is highly disrespectful and tacky. And before
you judge me to be some uptight soccer mom who came across your site, let me tell
you that I am in your target audience. I am into both romantic goth style and spent
a good number of years this way and also and into lolita street fashion. Your book
is something that I would have picked up in a store to keep on my bookshelf/coffee
table and encouraged my friends to buy as well. However I don't think I will be
doing anything of the sort. I am saddened to see that you show such little respect
for the people of the cemetery.

Hmmm. I need to double-check some of my sources, but from what I remember, the big public/non-churchyard cemeteries were, to some extent, intended as large public parks. Or at least, they were certainly treated that way for a very long time. I am planning on answering her, but like I said, I need to check my sources and do some more research.

Behind the cut-tag, my to-do list. Not terribly exciting, I realize, but good heavens, I need one.


- Laundry.
- Shorten one of the hoop skirts so it's the right length for under the stripy skirt mineke made me.
- Figure out what I'm wearing for the course of the NYC trip.
- Write an actual answering questions -type GCS post.
- Make sure all the ingredients are ready for tonight's dinner. (Cobb salad, which means oh right, I need to cook bacon.)
- DYE HAIR.
- Aspirin mask.
- EMAIL AGENT.
- Send Bluejay more fic links. (muah-ha-ha-ha!)
- Send thank you mail to Miss K. at Aromaleigh for mentioning the GCS book on her blog. DO NOT browse the Aromaleigh site, as I do not have spending money for makeup at the moment.
- Upper arm exercises. (Now if they'd just start showing some results soon, that would be lovely.)


::siiiiiiiiigh:: Don'wanna. Would rather nap, and watch movies with the Stroppy One.

Comments

[snobahr.livejournal.com]

1. The people in the cemetary are dead. If they want to complain about good-natured, non-destructive merriment going on overhead, they are welcome to speak up. I imagine that if they do this, their wishes will be respected, and with all due alacrity.
2. Many cemetaries accept donations. This helps with maintenance of (older) grave markers, as well as the general maintenance of the grounds and buildings, and equipment.
3. If I were dead and you happened to have your tea party on/near/within sight of my grave, I'd be pleased as punch. I know you wouldn't know me for my headstone or anything like that - I just like the idea of tea parties in cemetaries... provided they're good-natured and non-destructive. And that ya'll clean up after yourselves - you wouldn't want me rising from the dead to take you to task, after all.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I assumed the person was concerned about the living visitors of the dead being disturbed and appalled by the gaiety of a tea party getting in the way of their somber mourning.