Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
Second attempt to get this through: Iron Circus is at CALA! Come on down, Los Angeles!
December 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Second attempt to get this through: Iron Circus is at CALA! Come on down, Los Angeles!
Some highlights from Hollywood Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Some highlights from Hollywood Forever.
But if you have one day in Los Angeles to see a cemetery, I’m gonna be real: hit Hollywood Forever instead.
It’s more compact, more visitor-friendly, has just as much to see, and: free-range peacocks.
It’s more compact, more visitor-friendly, has just as much to see, and: free-range peacocks.
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
But if you have one day in Los Angeles to see a cemetery, I’m gonna be real: hit Hollywood Forever instead.
It’s more compact, more visitor-friendly, has just as much to see, and: free-range peacocks.
It’s more compact, more visitor-friendly, has just as much to see, and: free-range peacocks.
Below is my step count JUST for my day at the cemetery.
If you’re curious about this place, put on your dorkiest, puffiest New Balances, cuz you are gonna be WALKING. And honestly, if you don’t have the fitness for this, rent a car.
I’m serious. A LOT of this was uphill.
If you’re curious about this place, put on your dorkiest, puffiest New Balances, cuz you are gonna be WALKING. And honestly, if you don’t have the fitness for this, rent a car.
I’m serious. A LOT of this was uphill.
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Below is my step count JUST for my day at the cemetery.
If you’re curious about this place, put on your dorkiest, puffiest New Balances, cuz you are gonna be WALKING. And honestly, if you don’t have the fitness for this, rent a car.
I’m serious. A LOT of this was uphill.
If you’re curious about this place, put on your dorkiest, puffiest New Balances, cuz you are gonna be WALKING. And honestly, if you don’t have the fitness for this, rent a car.
I’m serious. A LOT of this was uphill.
OK, to be fair, this is a great cemetery. It’s got a lot of charm. But the mixed messages are kind of insane.
I’ve never had a place simultaneously so clearly WANT visitors, while simultaneously bristling at them.
I’ve never had a place simultaneously so clearly WANT visitors, while simultaneously bristling at them.
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
OK, to be fair, this is a great cemetery. It’s got a lot of charm. But the mixed messages are kind of insane.
I’ve never had a place simultaneously so clearly WANT visitors, while simultaneously bristling at them.
I’ve never had a place simultaneously so clearly WANT visitors, while simultaneously bristling at them.
Mmkay, so.
Forest Lawn Cemetery Glendale.
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*Aretha Franklin voice* Great grounds, beautiful grounds.
Forest Lawn Cemetery Glendale.
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*Aretha Franklin voice* Great grounds, beautiful grounds.
December 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Mmkay, so.
Forest Lawn Cemetery Glendale.
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*Aretha Franklin voice* Great grounds, beautiful grounds.
Forest Lawn Cemetery Glendale.
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*Aretha Franklin voice* Great grounds, beautiful grounds.
And on the way out, I did try and see if there was a way to all go, Michael Jackson’s tomb, among others. Unsurprisingly, door locked, couldn’t get in.
Looks like I wasn’t the only person trying to see him, either.
Lots of messages drawn in the dust on the windows with fingers.
Looks like I wasn’t the only person trying to see him, either.
Lots of messages drawn in the dust on the windows with fingers.
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And on the way out, I did try and see if there was a way to all go, Michael Jackson’s tomb, among others. Unsurprisingly, door locked, couldn’t get in.
Looks like I wasn’t the only person trying to see him, either.
Lots of messages drawn in the dust on the windows with fingers.
Looks like I wasn’t the only person trying to see him, either.
Lots of messages drawn in the dust on the windows with fingers.
Another, perfect example of “I don’t know who you are, but I approve of your tomb.” and another case of the kind of architecture you can date to a specific period, namely, when American (and British) mortuary architecture became obsessed with an ancient Egypt.
December 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Another, perfect example of “I don’t know who you are, but I approve of your tomb.” and another case of the kind of architecture you can date to a specific period, namely, when American (and British) mortuary architecture became obsessed with an ancient Egypt.
Like every big cemetery of note, Forest Lawn is filled with massive sculptural masterpieces, but I always find graves like this the most heartrending. No marble fairies & bronze archers, just fun, happy party decor. To me, it’s stuff like this that really, truly says “Holy FUCK, I miss you so much.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Like every big cemetery of note, Forest Lawn is filled with massive sculptural masterpieces, but I always find graves like this the most heartrending. No marble fairies & bronze archers, just fun, happy party decor. To me, it’s stuff like this that really, truly says “Holy FUCK, I miss you so much.”
Some more copies. This time, Raphael paintings.
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Some more copies. This time, Raphael paintings.
And at the center: a mosaic recreation of the signing of the Declaration of independence.
A video instead of a photo, because you MUST experience the piped-in music, here. There’s a lot of that at Forest Lawn.
A video instead of a photo, because you MUST experience the piped-in music, here. There’s a lot of that at Forest Lawn.
December 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
And at the center: a mosaic recreation of the signing of the Declaration of independence.
A video instead of a photo, because you MUST experience the piped-in music, here. There’s a lot of that at Forest Lawn.
A video instead of a photo, because you MUST experience the piped-in music, here. There’s a lot of that at Forest Lawn.
At the other end of the Court of Freedom: George Washington.
December 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
At the other end of the Court of Freedom: George Washington.
Court of Freedom, by the way. At one end: “The Republic.”
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Court of Freedom, by the way. At one end: “The Republic.”
There are religious aesthetics, passionate lovers, a maiden, a mother, and. crone, a nature-loving bohemian and an analyzing scientist, and numerous wondering, children.
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
There are religious aesthetics, passionate lovers, a maiden, a mother, and. crone, a nature-loving bohemian and an analyzing scientist, and numerous wondering, children.
This sculpture is by Ernesto Gazzeri. “The Mystery of Life” has 18 individual figures, making it the largest group sculpture in Forest Lawn.
It features a little fountain, with an unknown source and an unknown destination, a metaphor for the journey of life.
It features a little fountain, with an unknown source and an unknown destination, a metaphor for the journey of life.
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This sculpture is by Ernesto Gazzeri. “The Mystery of Life” has 18 individual figures, making it the largest group sculpture in Forest Lawn.
It features a little fountain, with an unknown source and an unknown destination, a metaphor for the journey of life.
It features a little fountain, with an unknown source and an unknown destination, a metaphor for the journey of life.
Mmkay, well, I love this. A lot.
December 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Mmkay, well, I love this. A lot.
Another one of those copies. Maybe the closest I’ll ever get to it, who knows.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Another one of those copies. Maybe the closest I’ll ever get to it, who knows.
I love these kind of memorials. The little inside jokes are great.
December 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I love these kind of memorials. The little inside jokes are great.
The stained glass windows in here are… Something. They are definitely something.
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The stained glass windows in here are… Something. They are definitely something.
THERE you are, JEEZ.
Ma’am, I walked by you like A THOUSAND TIMES.
Ma’am, I walked by you like A THOUSAND TIMES.
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
THERE you are, JEEZ.
Ma’am, I walked by you like A THOUSAND TIMES.
Ma’am, I walked by you like A THOUSAND TIMES.
Gotta catch em all.
Or as many as I could find, anyway.
Or as many as I could find, anyway.
December 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Gotta catch em all.
Or as many as I could find, anyway.
Or as many as I could find, anyway.
You can hear the bald eagle scream from here.
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
You can hear the bald eagle scream from here.
The door to this place was locked, ironically enough.
Which I guess makes it incredible kind of sense, seeing is how the quote on that column is from Thomas Jefferson, American history’s most notable child rapist.
Anyway, quick photo from the gate.
Which I guess makes it incredible kind of sense, seeing is how the quote on that column is from Thomas Jefferson, American history’s most notable child rapist.
Anyway, quick photo from the gate.
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The door to this place was locked, ironically enough.
Which I guess makes it incredible kind of sense, seeing is how the quote on that column is from Thomas Jefferson, American history’s most notable child rapist.
Anyway, quick photo from the gate.
Which I guess makes it incredible kind of sense, seeing is how the quote on that column is from Thomas Jefferson, American history’s most notable child rapist.
Anyway, quick photo from the gate.
“Nazis are stupid assholes, actually“
- your fucking ancestors who are actually there
- your fucking ancestors who are actually there
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Nazis are stupid assholes, actually“
- your fucking ancestors who are actually there
- your fucking ancestors who are actually there