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.]

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?

Native Fresno Assholes

Apparently, Fresno's major export to Portland isn't grape related products, it's assholes.

Fresno native and current Portland, Oregon...er...ite...ass, Scott Moore, wrote a weak little article about Fresno's current "Strong Mayor" format being adopted by Portland. He used it as an excuse to flame Fresno, calling Fresno "a royal craphole."

Bill Mcewen, Fresno's top columnist, got wind of it and blogged about it. That prompted a Portland Mercury blog about Bill's blog.

A blog brawl ensues.

Don't move away from Fresno then call it a "craphole" because the Fresno blogsphere will find your ass!