More about names of cities (+ 2 bonus topics!)

I am still having a hard time making all the verb tenses agree in my sentences, but that hasn´t stopped me from making Spanish puns since the first day we arrived in Granada.
The most obvious, of course, is in the name of the city itself:
Gran Nada, "the big nothing."
Now, the joke doesn´t work entirely, because Granada is a vibrant, and quite baroque city. But it´s also more than a pomegranite (see previous entry) so what is in a name after all? Well, in this particular joke I´ve found a connection to my home town to go along with the fruit-based connection to my previous residence in Californa. As far as I know, Dallas, Oregon has never grown on a tree (although the high school mascot used to be the Prune Pickers about 100 years ago), but it truly was a big bunch of nothing.
Wow, that sounds mean. I love Dallas, really. There just isn´t much there

Bonus topic: Facial hair
I have been growing a beard. It´s coming along quite nicely. However, I may cut it tonight before we go salsa dancing. I haven´t decided yet.

Bonus topic 2: Tee-shirts
A few days ago I was talking to a few people I had just met at a café. Like most of the people here, they were both smoking, even though they´re Americans. The loudest of the two was from Texas and was wearing what looked like it could be a Sesame Street tee-shirt, except that it said 666 Hell Street (or something similar) instead.
I was wearing a orange and yellow tee-shirt that Erin had made me for Valentine´s Day that says "Agapé" on it. He was all, "dude, what´s your shirt say?" and I said, "oh. um, Agapé. It´s a Greek word for unconditional love."
"Oh," he said, "ok."