You know you've been in Fresno too long when you step outside into a hundred-degree blast furnace and your first thought is, "Thank God the heat finally broke."

If Fresno keeps having elections at this rate, eventually we'll all just be in the habit of going to the polling place every Tuesday.

Fresnans would have more pride if the festival weren't held in the summer heat.

OK, Fresno. We all understand. A contractor accidentally pierced a gas main under one of the city's main arteries at 4am this morning. That street is closed. We get it.

But when every street that cars are being routed onto to get around the gas leak also have lanes closed for such reschedulable activities as running leaf blowers on the center ( Read more... )

Please turn on the microphones before the cast starts singing. Otherwise, I can't hear them over the teenagers chatting in the row behind me.

crboltz is still a little freaked out by this, but someone tried to steal his car from the driveway in Fresno last nightNow, I wasn't there, so I'm basing this on both the snippets I got on the phone last night and his (admittedly somewhat jumbled) recounting on LJ this morning, but I think that even though it's scary to (nearly) be the victim of a crime ( Read more... )