THE FRESNAN

Fresno Fair 2010: Easier To Park Than In 1940

Since the biggin' Fresno Fair opens today, it's a good time to steal another pic from the Pop Laval Facebook page. As you can tell, it's the racetrack at the Fresno Fairgrounds, October 5, 1940. Fun to notice the dominance of fields instead of homes. And, the full-ass parking lot.

There will be a Pop Laval booth in the Home Arts Building, so keep your head up for it - after filling your gullet with corndogs, cinnamon buns and fried oreos, of course.

Fresno: We Eat Corndogs And Jump Off Shit

Yep. That's our new brand. Found it. "Fresno: We eat corndogs and jump off shit!" Take that, Portland! Hell of a lot better than "The Rose City", we say.

We didn't come up with it though. Greg Wayne, frontman for Something To Burn, a band that just opened for Stone Temple Pilots at the Fresno Fair, thought up that gem. We think he was having a little fun on us, but that's alright since he gave us such a kickass slogan.

Check the 3:15 mark of the video for that, and check 1:05 to see what a crappy greenroom the Paul Paul has:

Bloggiest Moment Of The Week: The Biggish Fresno Fair

 

It was a full week of local blog postings about the Fresno Fair so rather than picking one, lets look at them all:

• Edward Stewart got a hetero-woody over Corin Hoggard day at the fair.
• Famous Whitewater likes his bacon with his chocolate.
• Marcel Nunis says his neighbor's Halloween display is more of a Fall marker than the fair.
• Nick Gennock has some pretty awesome pics of Stone Temple Pilot's appearance at the Paul Paul.
• We thought STP could have given Fresno a little more.
• Mike Oz stops for Hammer Time at the Paul Paul.

HONORABLE FRESNO BLOGGY MENTIONS
While not Fresno Fair related, they're still Fresno noteable: 

• Travis Sheridan proposes Fresno begins a graphic design association in Fresno - everybody seems to be down with that.
• Gustav's Groupie gets involved with a large discussion about the Fresno version of the 40 Days For Life campaign.
• Mike Oz (and a hot artist) try to convince the Contra Costa Times that we're not dumb.
• ArcHop Park is coming along nicely and it now has trees.
• Bryan Harley has an update on his Bring the Google Trike to Fresno campaign.

[Picture taken in the Ag Building at the Fresno Fair, which we think is always cool and underrated.]

What You Missed Last Night: STP Mailing It In

Yeah, this may not be the most popular opinion, because a lot of people out there felt differently, but... we think Stone Temple Pilots went through the motions at the Paul Paul. Yeah we said it.

Set list was awesome. The band sounded great. But, there wasn't much feeling, at least not till the end. It took a jackass running across the stage for the band to wake up a bit. Maybe we're being too critical because we still remember a Selland Arena show STP played where they blew the Red Hot Chili Peppers off the damn stage.

So, a good show that could have used less through-the-motions.

[Photo stolen from DencaLR's feed]

Big Fried Fresnan Fair Starts Bringin It Today

The Bigass Fresno Fair begins with perfect weather and the prospect of new fried foods to try. The rock star of fried food at the fair is Chicken Charlie and he was on the Tonight Show With Conan Obrien recently, showing Conan how to fry and giving us a preview of what expect from him this year: Zucchini Wienies. 

Bloggiest Moment of the Week: Blog Fair Comes To Town

Fresno loves its fair, no matter what neighborhood it's in, so of course it's going to get blogged about. The Fresno Beehive posted several times about it - with video. Hey, we posted too. Even a podcast talked about it and Lecram saw Chicago VIP style.

All this equals out to this week's bloggiest item: the considerably large Fresno Fair.

[Photo taken in home arts building at the fair]

*The bloggiest moment in Fresno's Internets is posted every Saturday night at 1:01 am.

A 'Fairly' Decent Picture Report

The Fresnan braved the heat - and old folks day - at the Fresno Fair today, so you can wet your appetite for the horses, rides, exhibits, newscast booths and, of course fried goodness.

Jump on over for some pics...

Fry Fresno, Fry

Yes, the above-average-sized Fresno Fair is here, and that means fried food (That's it. That's all it means.) All kinds of fried stuff too. You know that one dude's booth will be there and he'll have some new fried concoction to try. No matter how weird, it's usually good.

This all got me thinking, what Fresno foods would I like to see fried? Battering them up and frying them would only make them better, right? Of course it would...

• Gnocci dish from Mike's Pizzeria.

• Motto Brew from Sequoia (wait, that would take out the alcohol - nevermind).
• Dollar skins from the Silver Dollar.
• California roll from Edo-ya, Zipangu, Sushi-n-Pop or Maroo.
• Anything from the Beerock Shop.
• Tri-tip sandwich from the Dog House Grill.
• Stockholm Royal from Veni's (might still be good without alcohol).
• Mushroom and pepperoni from Me-&-Ed's.

What else ya got?

[Photo stolen from Will-A]

A Fresgeek Weekend

It's the first ever Fresgeek Weekend post.  Every Friday, expect The Fresnan to reveal what a Fresgeek should do over that particular weekend.  This particular weekend, a Fresgeek should...

On Friday night: Go see All Good Things release something and The Nancies kick some ass, at Last Call.

On Saturday: Check out the Fresno Fair's last gasp of 2007.  If that doesn't happen, watch the Fresno State Bulldogs and Pat Hill play Idaho way to closely.

Saturday night: Is this Pangea place any good to eat at?  A Fresnan will investigate.  Finish the night off watching SLC and other Fresno bands battle it out at pool hall/bar/club/bomb-shelter Babylon.