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Take a look Fresno, it is the best clips - well maybe not the best, maybe just some interesting clips - related to Fresno, that can be found on Youtube:

GENERAL FRESNO:
This one is very cool. Remember "Air Guitar" competition at Fresno State's Vintage Days? Yes. Okay, well, do you remember the first one in 1981? I wasn't old enough to check this out, but maybe you were - a real blast to Fresno past: First Air Guitar

River Park movie goers discuss why they're seeing Snakes On A Plane.

Ever wanted to tour a freshly moved-into North Fresno home? Wish granted

The B95 stage at the Fresno Fair holds dance-offs with kids I guess Go get it kid.

Test your strength at Blackbeards: Strength Game

The Fresno Grizzlies breakdown Kevin Federline's career: True K-Fed Stories

LOCAL SPORTS:
Want to relive the Fresno State vs USC game from last year? Check it: Game Clips

Soccer studs reenact the famous World Cup Head But at Bulldog Stadium.

Oregon at Fresno State, edited down for your enjoyment: Fresno vs. Oregon '06

Fresno has some cool skaters like Charlie Brumbaugh

I go to Fresno Falcons games to see a hockey game, some go to see a fight: Punch Drunk Condor

FRESNO CONCERTS:
Check Nickleback singing "Goodbye" to Selland Arena.

Chevelle sends the "Pain Below" Selland Arena.

Tool gets Schism all over Selland.

The Save Mart Center is entered by Kelly Clarkson (trying to keep it diverse).

Deftones give Fresno a taste of their Chaos.

Hoobastank tears the roof off...Borders? Inside Of You.

LOCAL BANDS:
You've heard about them, now see them; Fresno's Super Lucky Catz at Full Circle.

This is very nice, pro-shot video of The Same Shape playing somewhere not Fresno I guess.

Speakers For The Dead make a video at Kuppajoe's: Fresno Metal Rocks.

This is as local as a band gets, Fresno State Marching Band plays as fans file out of Bulldog Stadium.

CAREFUL FRESNO:
If you post your crappy videos on YouTube, Dorktown just might be watching.

Tickle Me Fresno

If you're a Fresnan with a few years behind you, you've got to remember the Toys"R"Us on Blackstone. When that mother-of-all-things-good-in-kiddom-retail came to town, I thought I died and gone to Mattel heaven.

Around that wondrous time, It was the Cabbage Patch Kid craze - Toys"R"Us couldn't keep them on the shelves. Well, here's one thing that the West Shaw "R"Us won't be able to keep on the shelves:

Dorktown Moves On Up

Move On Up is a rare Fresno radio program. It is rare because it is progressive, smart, uses Fresno's culture as its theme and (get this)...it's entertaining.

Show host Devoya Mayo took a few minutes to talk about how Move on Up (KFCF 88.1, Friday's at 7:00 PM)
came to be and where it's heading.

You're hitting your three year anniversary, have you always had engineer Mykal Powell with you?

No, actually I started with Dave Bryant. We both came from KFSR, he's actually the one that said "Don't be lazy, they want you to do a show, you should do it." If it hadn't been for Dave, I would not have even thought about it. But Dave also suggested we have a second engineer because Dave knew he was...not as reliable as he could be. And he was correct, because shortly after starting, he stopped.

And that's when Mykal came in?

Mykal came full time. He was the back-up guy, then he became THE guy.

Did you have the same show at Fresno State, just kinda moved it over?

No, not at all, completely different. When we were at Fresno State, Mykal had a show where he only played music, for three hours, every Wednesday night. And then he let me have forty-five minutes of that show, to play the kinda music that I liked, but he got tired of me just playing music and not talking, 'cause I was really nervous. So I came up with 'five questions' and I would bring people in and ask them those five questions. I would add stuff to it, but I really didn't like talking so much.

Then the KFCF station manager said "I like what you do with poetry, diverse people listen to it." so I said yes [to doing a show on KFCF]. So that's where we are now, and we made it a full hour.

Is the show the same now as it was the first year?

No. The first year I had a co-host and I had specific ideas that I thought we could implement. Get To Know Your City, was a program, like the last five minutes of the show we would highlight somewhere we liked in Fresno that we thought people didn't know about. That's really the only things that have changed.

Every show you open with a poem and usually it's your 'Move' poem, did you write that?

Yes and that was actually just because when I did a proposal for the station manager, he asked what the concept was, why did I choose the term Move On Up. And I needed to come up with a way to explain it and I couldn't do it very well, but I had always written poetry and I thought, well maybe if I write this poem he'll get it and wouldn't have to talk so much. Because at that point, I still didn't like conversating so much on air. So I gave that to him and he was like "Alright, lets do it."

Are you able to pick out your favorite show over the past three years?

I really enjoyed my grandmother, just because it's hard to get my grandmother to do a lot of things, and it's hard to get her to chat. For her to come in on her birthday and talk about growing up in the south, and racism, and California and all this stuff was just cool. And people came up to me afterwards, saying that, you know what, I listened to that show and now I ask my grandparents more questions. That's what I wanted to happen, I didn't think it would happen, but it did.

I really liked the show with Igniongo Reggay. She works on international debt relief and this girl lives in DC, she's from Kenya and she came to FRESNO. Half of it was for a project she was working on, but she didn't have come to Fresno, she could have went to San Francisco or LA. But I wanted her to be on the show and she said okay. And it always amazes me, there's people that have come out of town, just to be on this little radio show and talk about whatever I ask them to talk about. I don't know why, I just think that's the coolest shit right there.

Does KFCF have any control over your show?

It's 100% myself and Mykal. Every now and then the station manager will call and say "Someone called and said they want to be on your show," which I find amazing. And I love that Vic is so damn cool, he'll tell them "I don't know if Devoya likes Bluegrass, I don't think she does, I will forward this information to her." And he'll call me and say "You can do what you want with this information, I didn't promise them anything. I told them you're in control of whatever you do."

Are you the answer to creative stagnation in Fresno?

(Devoya laughs) I say that we're the answer to creative stagnation because people don't listen to you unless you're sassy. In my personal opinion, unless you have a little cockiness to you, people will just not take what you say face value. I think that we know a little somethin', I think we have so many friends in this city that do somethin' that, if you are stagnant, we can offer you some options if you listen. If you don't that's cool too, but we kinda know some people. If you wanna be down you can be down. We're not the only ones that have that answer, but we're the easy ones you can access at Friday at 7:00 PM.

Is there a Fresnan that you've wanted on the show for a long time, that you haven't been able to get?

I would love for Cynthia Sterling to roll up in there, because I live in downtown. I've written her so many times and I haven't gotten any responses. I would love to dialog with her on a myriad of things. She's my councilwoman, I'm in district four so come on.

How long do you think you can keep the show going?

I've had other projects in the past, when they get so cold that you feel like this is gonna die out in a minute...I'm always of the nature of you have to kill yourself, don't let it die out on its own. So I realistically think, this is three years, I know I could do another year, but I also know that there are younger people that are interested in that come the station and kind of kick-it a little bit and lay in the cut and would be really good at it also. So I know that probably in another year I would probably say "Okay Joseph, why don't you do this and why don't you have this person do this.

And I'm okay with that because you always have to continually change and recognize that there's other things you need to be doing and let someone else try it. Because Fresno is famous for beatin' somethin' till it's done and I don't wanna be that chick. So if there's someone else that feels they can step-up and I've done everything I can do come-on I can train you.

A Fresno Challenge

For the nationally televised game against Oregon, Pat Hill's Fu Manchu challenged Fresno State fans:

"It's going to be a big-time game, big-time football right here in our stadium. Oregon's [Autzen Stadium] is considered in the Pac-10 the most hostile environment. Hopefully that's a challenge to fans to show that [Bulldog Stadium] is just as hostile. We're going to need our crowd in this game and at their seats."

I definitely agree with coach on that. But Dorktown would like to issue a challenge to the Fresno fans as well: Be an ambassador of Fresno when encountering Oregon Duck fans or any fans that come to town, don't be an asshole. Yes, it's cool to give opposing fans some crap during the game, but when the game is done, shake their hand and say, "Good game, thanks for coming down to Fresnut."

I did this after the Nevada game when I ran across a bunch of Nevada fans waiting to get on their bus for the ride home to Reno. All of them we're very cool, even though they just lost. Some even were already rooting Fresno State on to beat Oregon.

I love that about being in the WAC, everybody roots for one another when a fellow WAC team is playing outside the conference.

Did the Nevada fans think I was a dork for shaking their hand? Maybe some of them, but it's better for out-of-towners saying to themselves "Remember those dorks in Fresno?" instead of "Remember those assholes in Fresno?"

Bulldog fans pay the price for ESPN

HEY! FRESNO STATE! NO MORE GAMES AT 5:00 IN THE FRESNO SUMMER!

This message is from us unfortunate souls whom had tickets to the Nevada game and were seated on the east side of Bulldog Stadium. Aluminum, cement, football and a 100 degree sun doesn't mix. It was like watching football with the Heat Miser sitting next to you.

Just ask the poor woman getting medical attention in the picture above. She passed out in her seat and had to be taken away. I don't show her in the picture out of respect to her (she looked like she was going to die...she didn't though...)

We all know it's great to have Fresno State showcased on ESPN but at what price? There needs to be a point ,FSU, where ya just say "No!"