Mustache giving Bee critic bad advice

The Bee's Rick Bentley is showing his age. It's time for Heather or somebody with some young critic blood to help Old Grey Mustache out.

Rick disagreed with "30 Rock" winning an Emmy for best comedy:

Maybe it was a dream. Please someone wake me up. "30 Rock" could not have been named best comedy. Alec Baldwin is the only funny part of the show and he did not win. The win by NBC's "30 Rock" makes the dream about being in front of a class, naked and without your homework seem rather tame.

Sorry Greystache, but "30 Rock" is funny as hell and it's been a long time since a woman as smart and funny as Tina Fey has hit comedy. Even longer then it takes to trim that stache.

Shields 97 Cent Store fire

Video and pictures of the 97 cent store fire that happened Labor Day:

Video of the fire



Picture stream of the: 97 Cent Store Fire

Shooting tests Fresno media's focus

You can already see what’s going to happen after this DUI stop in Fresno that turned into a shooting. The local media is going to be lazy and just link it with the Tower District and the Mardi Gras celebration, when it actually had little or nothing to do with it.

People are going to get scared and say “Well, if that’s what happens in the Tower District then I’m not going.” That kind of thinking would be wrong. This can happen anywhere in town and probably WILL, eventually.

At least Donald Munro and Mike Oz' ,columnists at the Bee, are thinking clearly. Let’s hope that the rest of Fresno’s media and people will too.

Fresno Famous Dorks

Not only can Fresno State students now download podcasts of class lectures and Fresno State news, they - and everybody else in the world - will soon be able to download Jarah Euston and Joshua Tehee's appearance on the Dorktown Podcast.

Jarah and Josh are scheduled to be on Dorktown - Episode 38 - Saturday night. The podcast should be ready for download very late Saturday night. I think all Famous Folks know what will be major a topic.

Bee 'Edits' Dorktown

Famous being purchased by the Fresno Bee has been blogged about as far away as Massachusetts and as close as Bakersfield. But not one editorial letter in the Opinion section of the Bee.

I decided to change that by sending a letter to the Bee myself. Bee Editors apparently didn't find it worthy because they aren't publishing it. I've even sent in a couple different versions, still nothing. Maybe the writing just sucks - I admit it isn't great. Or, maybe they don't like the content of it.

Either way, since they aren't publishing it, I will:

So, McClatchy’s Fresno Bee has bought FresnoFamous.com. To borrow from the Bee, I would like to say ‘Thumbs Up’ to the Bee for putting their ego aside and saying “If you can’t beat ‘em, assimilate ‘em.”

It will be interesting to see if the Bee can keep to their promise of not meddling with the site and letting the Fresno Famous users dictate the bulk of the content and style. I know the Famous users will keep a watchful eye.

Yes, not all letters make it into the Bee, but I always find the ones about local issues more interesting , rather than what somebody from Clovis thinks of Iraq.