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Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios VIP Experience Disappoints
A performance by the Cirque du Soleil is almost always a life-altering experience for someone in the audience, and it’s little wonder that fans tend to nominate their very first show as their...
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The Time We Saved Georgia’s Film Industry
This is my 20th year as a member of an international film union best known as IATSE, which is an acronym for a 4-mile long run-on sentence describing what its members do and the incredibly specific...
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Skidmark
I remember when the Marriott Marquis was still shiny and new, back in the 1980s. Somewhere in my stack of sketchbooks I have a little student study I made of the hotel while I was in the architecture...
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Basil Eleby’s Fabulous Weaponized Love Seat (That Destroyed Atlanta)
Like most Atlantans I am fascinated by the story of Basil Eleby, a man whose life might have come and gone without leaving a mark in Atlanta’s history books if it were not for his (alleged) creation...
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Remembering the Great Atlanta Fire of 2017
While the collapse of the elevated portion of Interstate 85 has been a major inconvenience for people traveling through the region around Atlanta, it can hardly compare to the devastation that...
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The Palmour House in College Park
A few days ago I was headed to lunch in College Park but overshot my destination so I hung a right at the very next street, Hemphill, in order to loop the block and make another pass. As I drew near...
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Protecting Your Cat from a Solar Eclipse
I don’t know about your part of the country, but in Atlanta everyone has eclipse fever and people (like me) have been racing all over the city in last minute bids to score a pair of highly sought...
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Dragon Con Turns 31 – Is It Too Big Now?
This aging dragon has certainly grown! Just look at that graph! It’s based on data I found on a Dragon Con wiki, which explains that its data was collected from snapshots of the Dragon Con website as...
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BeltLine Creator Launching Post-Apocalyptic Pub “Aftercar” in Atlanta
A few weeks ago my photographer friend Thomas Kerns returned from the end of the world with his camera bursting with images from Wasteland Weekend, the world’s largest full-immersion post-apocalyptic...
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What Happened to Klingon Cosplay?
A dispute about the new Star Trek show Discovery has recently bubbled up online, with several of my younger adult friends stomping their feet, gnashing their teeth, and waggling their tiny fists in...
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20 Years of Cosplay Trends at Dragon Con
While writing my post What Happened to Klingon Cosplay? I went off on a bit of a tangent on the rise and fall of various cosplay groups as seen at Dragon Con. I decided that this attempt at recording...
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Lesson of Joe: Leaping Before You Look
Tonight I was reminded of a lesson my friend Joe Connolly taught me back when he was Propmaster of the long-forgotten Aaron Spelling series “Savannah”. That fabulous, opulent saga of murder and...
View ArticleHow I Stopped Freaking Out About the Atlanta Comic Con
This past Saturday I was lured downtown by my friend Shawn, who insisted that we needed to check out the new Atlanta Comic Con. I first heard about the event on Facebook a week or so ahead of time,...
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Stone Mountain’s Secret Twin
I was driving home last week talking (hands free, mind you) to a friend over in Charleston who informed me that he was considering a getaway to Stone Mountain… in North Carolina. To a native Atlantan...
View ArticleFilk Banner Taken at Dragon Con
Update: the banner from the 2018 Dragon Con Filk track has been recovered. This year the folks who run the Dragon Con Filk track suffered a most grievous loss. Some unknown person removed a handmade...
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Saying Goodbye to The Bandit
My friend Katie Willard Troebs called me today and told me that Burt Reynolds was in heaven with JL, a legendary transportation captain we all knew and loved. We lost JL nearly a year ago. JL and his...
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The Atlanta Soccer Village
Back in the 1990s I stayed employed by moving between Atlanta’s tiny movie industry and a small design practice headed by Laura Heery, daughter of famous Atlanta architect George Heery. Laura has...
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Review of AnachroCon 2019
On Friday I drove over to the airport Hilton near Hartsfield-Jackson to purchase a weekend pass to AnachroCon (www.anachrocon.org), a small historical fiction convention held in the Atlanta metro area...
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Rare 1980s Sci-Fi Con Footage
Note: this resided in my VHS collection for 33 years before I finally transferred it into a digital format in December of 2019. I am tremendously happy to share it with the world today and am hoping...
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Rare 1980s Sci-Fi Con Documentary
Note: I never imagined I would be posting TWO “rare sci-fi convention” videos within weeks of each other, but here we are! So here’s the story… In the fall of 2019 I mentioned to my friend Whit Norris...
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