Comments on: SWAG!: Win an autographed copy of Tony Stamolis’ Frezno

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:25:02 +0000

I couldn’t make it to the book signing, so: Did I win? :-)

By: PartyMarty

PartyMarty — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:48:32 +0000

I'm gonna say Fresno PS3 Riot Guy FTW.

By: Diablo

Diablo — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:16:57 +0000

Show me the book baby!!!!!!!

Favorite thing about Fresno,,,,,

FRESH FOOD!!! (produce, if you have been to places like Idaho or the like you know what passes for oranges and other types of produce, we’re the shit here as the center of the agricultural nation, cause we are number freaking one in the nation as top agricultural county, we beat entire freaking STATES! as a county! )

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:53:36 +0000

This is pretty sad, really. We have one kid there now, and another that got promoted last year. This whole blue and red clothing thing is ridiculous. Our kids are as milquetoast as you can get. They are like a pale Naked Bros. What color really isn’t a gang color these days?

By: teresa

teresa — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:39:57 +0000

I have to give it to Alex. Girls dancing at Aldo’s has to be a top Fresno favorite. Ding ding ding- we have a winner.

By: alex

alex — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:27:32 +0000

Girls dancing at Aldo’s!!!!

However, reading Saroyan in Courthouse Park was a close second.

By: teresa

teresa — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:56:45 +0000

This is my last post on this topic, I swear.

Now that I’m in LA, I have realized another favorite thing about Fresno. It has prepared me to be lost in East LA at odd hours of the night and not be phased because it just looks like I perpetually got lost on Belmont.

By: The Fresnan

The Fresnan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:42:10 +0000

This blog post has gotten too popular – just like Fresno.

By: The Fresnan

The Fresnan — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:40:21 +0000

Now THAT would be a good blog post!

By: Alex Rollin

Alex Rollin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:35:40 +0000

I love the farming! I love that we can have food security here if we can juust do a little work to empower our immigrant population and wrest ill-placed subsidies away from monocrop farmers who are actively part of the problem of food insecurity.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:11:44 +0000

It’s a dry heat!

By: teresa

teresa — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:28:33 +0000

South of Shaw is definitely an economic bracket of its own. Just ask my fellow residents and the Brookings Institution.

By: teresa

teresa — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:23:55 +0000

What? 17 comments later, you tell me it only counts as one entry? I’m devastated. Must. Have. Book. Signed. Free. (gasp)

Anywho…things I love about Fresno:

*How people slow down on the freeway for absolutely NOTHING. Cuz it might be their cousin on the side of the road.
*Pig Explosion pizza at Me-n-Eds.
*Huntington Blvd. yard sale
*Jesus all fenced up and missing a hand at Sacred Heart

And a favorite that no longer exists…the mural of the bike cop down the street from Castillo’s on Ventura. (Note to Creative Fresno: Please let me repaint him somewhere.)

Well, off to LA.

By: blake

blake — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:37:08 +0000

I’m laughing at Teresa’s last comment.
First the South of Shaw economic bracket. I wonder if there’s a little box you can check on your tax form about that!

Second the bit about Tioga and not wearing anything that’s more than 50% red. (note: I went to that school, so it’s always dear to my heart [no, not really, yech. jr.high] I imagine all these hordes of 13 year olds having a massive fight: one side wearing red santa hats, the other blue ones.(Do they *sell* beige Santa hats?)

ok, supposed to be about stuff we love about Fresno:
*Spinners Records!
*KFSR!
*Bike rides through Old Fig, Tower, Fresno High.
*Hungry Bear Cookies! (first seen across the street from the Oly in that little Van Ness court thing where the bike shops were.)
*KFCF (I lived for a goodly while in LA, and their Pacifica channel was booooring in comparison.)

By: estella d

estella d — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:50 +0000

I love Fresno because it’s not sooo big and yet we have everything here that we need……also I like to hear the saying ” we are on our way to Fresno in movies …..