Late night Beyonce action

I'd always wanted to have a blog that just posted crap late at night, with a running timeline. But I immediately realized: Nobody would be there to read it dumbass!

Mike Oz proved Tuesday that a late night nerdy bloggy idea can be done, all with somebody actually reading it. In fact, Mike's running timeline from the Beyonce concert in Fresno was so popular, I'd say its the most commented on, uncontroversial type blog, outside of Lost Fresno, in Fresno blogsphere history.

Maybe I'll try MY late nite blog idea. Guess all I need is some Bee reporter clout, Beyonce aaand talent.

New FresCast to check

Fresno band The Overdubs has started podcasting. This one is all for Overdub fans, and it's a nice and simple idea.

Singer, Ryan Townsend, plays a new Overdubs song, talks about the song and there you go: Overdubs Blogcast.

Fresno bands take note! This is easier to do than you think. Hell, even Dorktown has figured out how, and it's mildly wildly successful.

Train holds Fresno hostage

Don't ya just hate it when ya come up to a train-crossing and the train is stopped. Just stopped, right there, in your path and you don't know what the hell is going on.

Maybe it's waiting for another train, or it's derailed (it happens), maybe a baby has wandered on to the tracks, or Butch and Sundance are robbing it.

Doesn't matter. Now, you've got to ask yourself "Do I just sit and wait? That guy is leaving. Does he know something I don't? But you know if I leave now the train will start moving. Who knows how long this train will be sitting here. AHHHHH ASS!"

Video proof of the train holding Fruit to Sheilds hostage today:

Block that bastard August sun

Fresno has cloud cover in late August? What the fuaaaack? No, it's not just smoke from the Zaca Fire this time. And, there are some crazy rumors going around town that it sprinkled today.

Wish it was going be like this for the Fresno State football opener Saturday. Won't be though. We might be looking at a 104 or so for our tailgating enjoyment. Dorktown will be tailgating for the game Saturday and if we can manage pick up some FS WiFi (doubtful), I'll be bloggin' from the game, live. More to come this week as we build to kickoff of the 2007 season.

Last days of the Grizzlies

The Fresno Grizzlies are done for the year - at "The Chuck" anyway. Below is a slide show of some shots Dorktown got from Saturday night's game.

I've noticed at the ballgame, over the past few years, true baseball fans are ignored at the stadium (that's reflected in the pictures). It's all about between inning shtick and pleasing people that don't give a shit who the starting pitchers are.

Many times the players and umps are ready to start an inning but the shtick is still going. Players are forgotten to be announced when they're substituted in. Out of town scores only occasionally get shown. The park runs out of hotdogs in the fifth inning...it goes on and on.

And these kind of things happen every game, no matter what goofhead thing the Grizzlies promotions department has going on.

How about THIS for a promotion next year guys: BASEBALL FAN NIGHT!

slide show

Fresno, check out Portland today

Fresno is Portland Oregon's leading importer of hipsters. There seems to be some sort of link going on with these two cities, hipsters or not. Maybe it's just like that with all Westcost cities and Portland lately and Fresno is no different.

Someday soon, Fresno will be the one importing, but not today.

Speaking of today, check out this webcast (live all day and night Saturday) of the Tour de Fat hitting Downtown Portland. What the hell's the Tour de Fat? Check it:

New Belgium Brewing's annual Tour de Fat, a ballyhoo of bikes and beer, with environmental sustainability at the very heart of it all, is headed to Missoula, Montana once again. The cycling circus spins into town on September 1, 2007. The tour will hit 12 cities throughout the summer, while traveling on B100 biodiesel fuel.

Maybe Fresno will be hip and...bicycliee...enough to host this. For now though, you can watch.


*Check the Portland webcast [click the menu in the box on the right of the profile page for choices of watching the webcast.]

Punk Rock Fire

Found some raw footage on YouTube of Wednesday's apartment fire in Fresno, video provided by Punk Rock Taco. Is it me or is "Punk Rock" a little too giddy about somebody's place burning-up?

Simple steps to pack your Fresno show

Waaa waaa waaa, Fresno bands are always bitchin' that it's so tough to get Fresnans to come out and see them play. Those bands don't know Fresno's secrets for geting people to come out:

Be good.
Get your way into a sweet venue.
Always give a good hand job be nice to the club owner.
PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE!
Play for free.

See, soooo easy. The Same Shape did all those things for a recent show at Vini Vidi Vici's. Check out this Dorktown video of what it was like to be at the show...and be too short to see over people:

Blantant misuse of hotness

Bloggers are not the most attractive people in the world. They are pudgy-fugly nerds that sit at their computers all day watching their gut grow and their chances for a real woman fade as they blog about things as inane as Red Robin openings.

Well, the Fresno Bee has an exception: Heather Mclane. Even more impressive is, the lady can write too. She's the funniest blogger in Fresno and the Bee is under-utilizing her.

She should be doing something in the printed version of the Bee - other than appearing in full blown adds for her Beehive Blog.

Hey! Bee Overlords. How about a column for the girl? I would love to hear her rip on Fresno celebs...other than K-Fed. Or, what about a weekly video of Heather musing about something Fresnerdy?

It could be like this popular weekly vidblog from (also nice tah look at) Jessie Cantrell:

Any place but Portland

So, this whole downtown streetcar idea is getting some momentum. I like the idea of streetcars, once again, running from Downtown to the Tower District. I'm a little worried that there won't be enough people living downtown by '09 to put it to proper use, buuut...we'll get there, and this will help.

Here's the problem, we're sending people to check out Portland's light rail. Portland huh? Damn, Fresnans have a big hard-on for Portland. Couldn't we have gone to some other rail city? I mean, after the titanic nerd-blog-battle, it just doesn't seem right.

Sure, lets get some streetcar action happening. But, why do we have to look like Portland's nerdy little bitch to do it?

Dorks over Fresno's airwaves

This may be the biggest mistake of Devoya's Career; Friday night from 7:00 to 8:00 the Dorktown crew [Myself, Bells and Producer Becky] will be on the Move on Up raido show on 88.1 KFCF.

We'll be talkin' fresno, podcasting and what-not/so-forth. Promises to be interesting, please check it out.

-Mikey