90+ Degrees All September!

Damn, YES! I love hot weather. Walking out of an air-conditioned building and the air hits you with an almost audible "FUMP!" ... that sound a gas burner makes when it comes on, the sound of hot air rushing in. Or you're driving and you see the heat coming off the pavement in little waves. Or you sit in the mid-afternoon stillness and realizes not even the bugs are moving, everything is staying still and trying to remain cool ... hell, I just drink it in. To be fair, I also like walking into an air-conditioned building from the heat and feeling everything become cool and clear, like glass almost. It's all good!

And while I am sure I would not like the heat nearly so much without air-conditioning ... I'd still like it! Dayum! 90+ degrees all September. I hear this coming Sunday fall will come in and probably put an end to the heat ... have to put up with temps in the 80s. Still ... nice while it lasted, and this year ... it REALLY lasted.

Let the Weirdness Continue!

Turtleman removes his head and takes a break as a Princess shops in the background.
Just some of the sights to be seen at AWA.

 A couple of weeks after the Labor Day bash at Dragoncon, anime (Japanese cartoon) fans throughout the Southeast get their freak on at Anime Weekend Atlanta, aka AWA. Held at the Cobb Gallerie in Atlanta, a city near Roswell, AWA boasts 15,000 or so attendees who dress as their favorite anime characters (see above) and watch anime videos, meet anime voice over stars, attend anime related events and generally have a great deal of fun. More pics and so forth at my website, real soon now.

Roswell, Georgia: Area 51-enabled!

It is a little known fact that Roswell Georgia, has its own Area 51. And unlike that OTHER Area 51 in New Mexico, ours really exists! I mean, they may have an actual area in Roswell, New Mexico that they CALL Area 51, but let's face it, the things reputed to have gone on there, never really went on there. Perhaps there IS something going on at their Area 51, but just try buying a ticket to see it, and then actually getting to see it!

Whereas in our Area 51, you pays your money, you gets your money's worth. Case closed, baby!

Atlanta Becomes The Capital of Strange

A crowd of partiers at DragonCon 2010.
Note Alien at bottom center greeting superheroine. My kinda people!

Once a year, over the Labor Day Weekend, Atlanta, a city near Roswell, is the Capital of Strange in the Southeast, perhaps the United States in its entirety. Almost 30,000 comic book fans, science fiction fans, anime fans, Goths and just plain partiers converge on several hotels in Atlanta's downtown for Dragoncon. They dress up as their favorite media characters, or in the case of Goths and partiers, wear their very best club clothes. Strangely enough, they all go very well together. It's always a fun, friendly event where you can have fun just sitting in the lobby and watching the parade pass by.

I'll post an article with a lot more photos when I have that website up, Real Soon Now.

Welcome To Planet Roswell

A seemingly innocent tree-lined street in Roswell's Historic District.Note lack of UFOs. Ghosts not shown.

Roswell, Georgia, is a city that sits under a cloud ... a cloud of UFOs! The UFOs are not in Roswell, Georgia, they are located ...in people's minds, at least ... in that OTHER Roswell: Roswell, New Mexico.

This is not to say that Roswell is not a perfectly fine city, in fact, it is a bustling suburban Atlanta city with a tremendously successful ghost industry, by the standard of ghost industries.(It's always great when the dead can support the living, ask any trust fund baby.) This blog and its associated website will examine the city of Roswell and its environs, and by environs of course we mean anywhere we please.

But still, when people think "Roswell" they think of "Roswell, New Mexico" not "Roswell, Georgia," and this must change! Roswell Georgia may not have UFOs, but it's got a lot of stuff that Roswell, New Mexico has ... like vegetation!