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!

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!

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.

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.