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  • Wage the Uglydoll in Green-Wood Cemetery Is Missing

    tree with parting branches where Wage the Uglydoll used to sit in Green-Wood Cemetery

    While taking a walk in Green-Wood Cemetery this past weekend, Y and I discovered that our friend Wage the Uglydoll had gone missing! We first met him last year and visited him on occasion. He had been in his tree all through the winter and the beginning of spring this year. The last time that we saw him was in March 2025. Maybe he found a new home or went on a vacation. Wherever he is, we hope that he is safe.

    Below is a picture of Wage’s cousin, Country Wage, who lives with us and is a friend to our Mose.

    wage the uglydoll is an orange anthromorphic monster with orange skin and two tiny upturned teeth wearing a worker's apron and a straw hat with lanyard.

  • Green-Wood Cemetery’s Ghostface is Buried in Snow

    ghostface from the film scream is buried in snow with only his head poking through the snow drift

    Ghostface is buried in a snowdrift in Green-Wood Cemetery. He’s seen better days.

  • Wage Is Living the High Life

    uglydoll wage sitting between the branches of a tree

    Y and I found Wage the Uglydoll on the ground below the tree where we had found him earlier this year. It had been some months since we had last visited him, and he must have fallen down at some point. I dusted him off and put him in a more secure position in the meeting place of several branches. Hopefully, he will enjoy this high and dry place in the sun a little better.

    uglydoll wage sitting between the branches of a tree

  • Paying Respects to Townsend Harris, Founder of City College of New York and First US Consul General to Japan

    stone memorial with a japanese lantern and large tree with overarching limbs

    Yesterday, Y and I visited Townsend Harris‘ grave in Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday. The tree behind it stretched out its branches to shade it from the crisp mid-afternoon sunlight. Harris is known for being the first Consul General from the United States to the Empire of Japan and he founded the school that would become the City College of New York and the cornerstone of the City University of New York (CUNY). His gravesite was renovated in 1986 by Japan and it retains the evident care that went into its design and construction. It’s a short walk from the Prospect Park West entrance on the south/southeast-facing hillside between Atlantic Ave and Ocean Ave.

    stone grave marker for townsend harris
    stone memorial for townsend harris, founder of city college of new york
    stone dedication memorializing the renovation of townsend harris' gravesite by japan
    stone japanese lantern in graveyard

  • Wage the Uglydoll Keeping Watch in Green-Wood Cemetery

    Orange stuffed animal resting in the crook of a tree in a cemetery.

    Earlier this year, Y and I found this Wage Uglydoll lying on the ground and covered in mud where three paths converge by a tree in Green-Wood Cemetery. It was the day after a windy thunderstorm. We we weren’t sure if he had been blown off a headstone or dropped by a cemetery visitor, so we propped him up in this tree so he’s be easy to see by anyone passing by in case they had lost him. Or, if he had been left on a grave, at least he would be within eye-shot.

    It has been months since we last saw Wage in the cemetery, because the weather has been too oppressive to go for a walk there. Thankfully, it was in the 70s yesterday, so we ventured out to the cemetery for a long walk. Wage was right where we left him keeping watch over the comings and goings in his corner of the graveyard.

    Considering his namesake, he has escaped the trappings of wage-earning by leaving capitalism behind. His life is now living up a tree in the sun amongst a little bit of nature in the heart of the big city.

    Orange stuffed animal resting in the crook of a tree in a cemetery.