Since we were lame and didn't post a Fresgeek Weekend this time, we'll preview next week:
Beer. Food. Downtown. Beer. Cleavage. Music. Beer. Riot Police.
A Fresno favorite for shitfaced assholes, Sudz in the City, is Saturday May 24th at The Chuck. Every drunk idiot in town will be in attendance...we'll see ya there.
The Taste & Toast of the Tower sucks for non-winos. Yeah I said it, big whoop, wanna fight about it? 
But I guess it's not meant for the beer folk. That's in a couple Saturdays. Yes, there was food and tea too, but when you've already tasted the tower (many times), you just want to sit and have a real meal.
It was still fun though, seeing new and familiar faces roaming the district and enjoying themselves. Plenty of pics and a small vid' from Thursday, after the break:
We'd like to begin a new segment for The Fresnan called "Bootlegged In Fresno". We'll get some random, legally questionable, Fresno audio and post it.
Our first victims? Fresno Indie Rock kings Rademacher. Victims because it's not straight-from-the-board quality, it's kind-of-little-bit-sorta-illegal-bootleg quality. And it comes from Saturday night's Undercurrent party.
Click it:Rademacher live "Playing For Fun"
Hey, what the hell, let's throw in some bootleg video too. Rademacher's "If U Got Some Magic":Have you heard the new podcast from Ed and Adam? Have you heard ours?
Well, really, you haven't heard Dorktown lately. We are on a little break until next week. But that doesn't mean there isn't something new to listen too.
The latest Flowing With Famous is out. "Flowing" is a podcast we do with Joshua Tehee of FresnoFamous.com. Plenty of good Fresno talk without all the Dorktown raunch (yeah, boring I know):
*Bonus audio that didn't make it into the podcast:
Coming to the Tower D's Starline club tonight is Alexander T Kent and their funnyass "Your Art Sucks" song. ATK is a side project of Say Anything's bassist, Alex Kent. Also showing is Portland's BoomSnake with Goodnight Sunrise and The Lauderdale.
Fresno's own Flight 409 may or may not be playing. In any case, I bet you could buy them a drink at the show. I wouldn't mind one either. I'll take a Stella or even a Rolling Rock, thanks.
So we told ya about the Central Valley brain drain site. Then the FresnoBeehive told us about this. Fresno native Dara Purvis wrote a column [some time ago] about her
drained Fresno brain.
The only way it could have been better? If Portland was involved. I couldn't help join in on the revived comment war (hopefully, soon to be blog war). Here was my take on all of the Fresno bashing:
Gotta love the Fresno haters as they chuck rocks at Fresno from 1992.
Thank you for leaving Fresno and please stay away. It has become a better place because of your absence. The worst thing about Fresno was all the FresNoers that used to be here.
Every weekend in Fresno is filled with endless cool things to do and great people to do them with. All this with amazing homes (with pools) for 250,000, Yosemite in our backyard and the beach a brief morning drive away.
I love it here, especially since you lameasses have left.
I still don't know how The Undercurrent pulled off such a great show with the amount of bands involved. Very impressed with them and EdLuv's rundown of the night. Much better than this one.
At least we got some video before getting lazy:
Do you remember Rock the Tower? Do ya now? Well, memories are all ya got pal because it's gone, GONES I TELLS YA! 
Well, Saturday, courtesy of the Undercurrent's second birthday, you can rock the tower again. This time at Babylon's. It starts at two and ends at two. That's right, two to two. Here are the bands, in order of scheduled appearance, with links to their myspace (where available). All with host Devoya Mayo from Move on UP!
Abigail Nolte
Carlos DB Montano
Tommy Delgado, Sam Rocha, and Ian Blesse
Three Bags Full (Kevin Hill Trio)
Rightview
Shon J
Ibid
Chuck Dimes
Aesop Fables
El Olio Wolof
Rademacher
The Sleepover Disaster
Julia Dawn
Patrick Contreras
DJ Aziomatic
As predicted, Fresno Famous has been redesigned. The new look is very industrial. Gone is the old soft, white, fem' look, along with Marilyn. Apparently, legally, the Monroe logo no longer could be used.
Functionality is about the same, outside of figuring out where the hell stuff is at. New things, like a restaurant review section, will be up in time and there are some more kinks to be worked.
If this was my first time on Famous, I would like the look. But, right now, being used to seeing the old Famous on a daily basis, the newness is a shock to the system. But, that will fade in time.
New logo:
Old lady:
This past Sunday, FresnoFamous.com was gracious enough to kick out some Grizzlies tixs to TheFresnan.com. We gave Famous nothing in return. Well, we do help with this thing.
Check some video of Sunday's Chucker experience:
And peep some pics after the break...
I love when Fresno brain drainers are honest with themselves and admit they still think about and even miss Fresno. Sometimes it takes a strong individual, or even couple.
One particular drain couple thinks about Fresno so much, they decided to blog about it. Valley Notebook is:
"Tracking down former Valley residents [brain drainers] and finding out what they’re doing, why they don’t live in the Valley, and what it would take for them to move back."
So if you're a valley native living the non-valley lifestyle, hit them up. I know they want to hear from you.
Even if you are one of those dump-on-your-hometown-assholes.
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