Sure, we’ve all seen t-shirt and bumper stickers with slogans like “Keep Asheville Weird” (totally lifted from Austin’s similar campaign) and “Asheville, where weird is normal.” But, after a couple of years, these seem kind of ... dull. Not to mention dated, as Asheville doesn’t seem as weird as it used to be.

So let’s have some suggestions for new, more accurate slogans. Just don’t libel anyone.

Here’s a few to start ...

“Keep Asheville moderately unusual for the South”

“I (heart) Asheville ... Why, yes, I am new here”

“Reasonably local”

“Gentrified, and proud of it!”

How about “Welcome to Asheville- now leave.” Or “Local-Please ridicule me behind my back.”

“Jason Bugg for Mayor”

“Steve Shanafelt Rocks”

“Do It In Asheville”

“If You Can Read This,
You’re in Asheville”

“Asheville is Not Weird,
You’ve Been Drinking”

“Asheville, Our Outhouses
are above YOUR water supplies!”

“If you’re from Asheville
you already know this”

“Asheville, all else falls flat”

“Ashevile, more culture than buttermilk”

Asheville is For Lovers Who Got Kicked Out of Virginia

Asheville, Hendersonville’s Mount Pilot.

No, Not Nashville, that’s in Tennessee.

Asheville. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Already. And Broke.

brebro - 16 January 2008 02:17 PM

Asheville, Hendersonville’s Mount Pilot.

You just made my day.

not original, but my favorite is still,

“if they call it tourist season, how come i can’t shoot ‘em?”

From a John Boyle column on few years ago on mottos for Asheville:

“Asheville: Ten thousand lesbians can’t be wrong”

“We are all rock stars here, didn’t you know?”

sarcasm implied

February 31st: Asheville Awareness Day

“Um, you’re sitting on my node, dude”

Asheville: Probably less than you expect

Asheville: Couldn’t agree on a slogan

Asheville: Global warming’s oceanfront property

Asheville: Gateway to other universes

Land of faeries and fairies

Just don’t harsh my mellow, man.

Asheville Suburbs: Home of the Garage Mahal.

Asheville: Get out, and come back soon!

Asheville: From Buskers to Cokeheads in five years.

Lifted from the virgin is.
“Were all here cuz were not all there”

Asheville- the worlds largest open air asylum

Asheville: “who wants a JOB, anyway?”

Asheville, Wolfe said you can’t go home grasshopper

Dis toun gotten werd,ever time I come back dere a dif inbreed o crystal worshipers from Swarovski to Hidenite lithium addicted Sapphire Valley gorls!

Tess Trueheart works Lexington Avenue

clutch - 30 October 2008 10:57 PM

Asheville, Wolfe said you can’t go home grasshopper

Dis toun gotten werd,ever time I come back dere a dif inbreed o crystal worshipers from Swarovski to Hidenite lithium addicted Sapphire Valley gorls!

Tess Trueheart works Lexington Avenue

Ummm.....was your clutch in or out when you wrote this, disambiguate if possible?

Maybe y’all would like to make suggestions to my son and his girl.  Both are illustrators and are playing with the idea of starting up a DOT COM BUSINESS.  My son hates ties.

I don’t have to wear a necktie
I don’t have to punch a clock
I started up a dot com company
And man it rocks
Won’t you come with me down to Mexico
In the winter with some friends?
My divorce will be final
Along about then
Meanwhile I got a gram and a real good ride
And don’t you know I hurt way down inside?

James McMurtry - “Just Us Kids”

Seeker - 31 October 2008 04:07 AM

clutch - 30 October 2008 10:57 PM

Asheville, Wolfe said you can’t go home grasshopper

Dis toun gotten werd,ever time I come back dere a dif inbreed o crystal worshipers from Swarovski to Hidenite lithium addicted Sapphire Valley gorls!

Tess Trueheart works Lexington Avenue

Ummm.....was your clutch in or out when you wrote this, disambiguate if possible?

Now there is a Tee shirt “Asheville NC, birthpalce of literary disambigulation and Tom Wolfe.”