The Best Little Business Name in Alpharetta

Best sign in Alpharetta!

While doing Santa's work in Alpharetta, Georgia, a town just to the north of Roswell (so close that you could pass in and out of both cities several times on a less-than-one-mile stretch of some roads at one time) I came across this sign outside a hair salon. Could not resist taking a photo. It's great when a business shows a sense of fun about itself!

Helen, Georgia: Bavaria, Southern Style!

A Bavarian mountain village -- southern style!

We traveled to Helen, Georgia, to see the sights, eat the food and smell the boiled peanuts cooking! And if we saw some fall leaf color on the way and witnessed bucolic splendor (including the Loch Ness Kudzu Monster) then so be it! Check out our copiously photographed report here!

Great Sunset Over Roswell

Caught a great inspirational-postcard sunset over Roswell!

I took the photo myself, as is the case with all photos on this blog to date, including the ones I have Photoshopped, so I got copyright. Now if I can get copyright on the CLOUDS I photographed, I figure I can score big. Considering the way the courts have been leaning on copyright issues lately, it shouldn't be much of a problem. I wonder if I can get "eminent domain" on the sky? Some would call that "reaching." But I say a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially if he's grasping for money!

Happy Halloween From Planet Roswell

Oh, noes!!!!!

Becky made up a topnotch cannibal pumpkin this Halloween, using a pumpkin cutting tool and a linoleum cutter. Of course, pumpkins are not cannibals.

Pumpkins are vampires!

BWaHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Dragoncon 2010 Brings the Fun To Roswell: Also, Atlanta!

Mister Freeze gives visitors to DragonCon 2010 a chilly reception.
Fortunately, most con members were much warmer!

Our coverage of Dragoncon 2010 finally makes it to the Web, just in time for ... Halloween ... but still, quality writing like this does not grow on trees! Read all about it in our picture-laden article on the Planet Roswell website, then follow the link back here and comment on it. Flowery praise of all kinds accepted!

Ghost Face Appears in Roswell Georgia Bushes

In the lower right of this photo a ghostly face looms out of the bushes in a
photo of  Roswell, Georgia, vegetation.

Who is the ghostly faces peering out of these bushes? How did it get there? Is Roswell really as haunted as it seems?

The Persistence of Vegetation

The site of Roswell Municipal Airport after the Lawn Service Strike of 2004.

Roswell, New Mexico, may be a waterless, virtually uninhabitable desert town (cue sagebrush blowing down empty street) but Roswell Georgia enjoys plenty of water, sunlight, and all the lush vegetation you can stand ... in fact, the vegetation is a little TOO lush here. It takes the word "encroaching" seriously! Read our story about the perils of living in a place where you can't stand still without SOMETHING trying to grow on you.

Lunch at Bai Wei with the Ghost of Nirvana

The ghostly image of the word "Nirvana" appears superimposed on the
door to the Bai Wei restaurant in this semi-unretouched photograph. Scary!

Roswell, Georgia, is considered by some to be the second most haunted city in America. I am a natural skeptic in this area, but when I went to the Bai Wei restaurant for some tasty cucumber maki rolls and some egg drop soup, I discovered the ghost of Nirvana. Really! Read the article and know the thrill of the supernatural and the zing of well made mango chicken!

The Planet Roswell Website is Up and Running!

Spaceship not being seen over Roswell City Hall in Planet Roswell website.

The Planet Roswell website is up and running, with three articles already online and more coming down the pike.Visit the place and check out our article welcoming folks to the site!

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!