Audrey Paris Johnson. She is a local drummer from many Fresno bands, and she has wound up playing drums for an Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta) project. It’s pretty damn cool:
Sahab. I’m not sure if it’s new, I think it is. Either way, I like to watch and listen:
Why does the 559 get the spam and telemarking calls from such weird-ass places?
Here are the top 5 I have gotten calls from:
Badger, California.
Is this a real place? Do they mean Badger Pass? Is it Badger from Breaking Bad? It’s actually a spot in the woods that is East of Fresno but technically in Tulare County. The only thing there is a place called Seven Circles Retreat. I feel like I don’t want to REALLY know what goes on there so I’m going to leave this one alone. Still like to think it’s Badger though.
2. Loomis, California.
It sounds like a condition, not a place. It’s Northeast of Sacramento by Folsom Prison. Hey, that’s the place Johnny Cash shot a man just to watch him bleed, right? Wait … … no that’s right.
3. Moorpark, California.
Moorpark? More like ummmmm, MOORAFILL park!
4. Parlier, California.
Alright, well, this is not weird. We all know Parlier as the place on the way to Bakersfield where 99 curves a bit, wait no, that’s PIXLEY. I don’t know what goes on there. But I get a lot of random Parlier calls, okay.
5. Miramonte, California.
Isn’t that, like, an Air Force base or some shit? Where they blast rockets off into space and junk? No, that’s Miramar. Oh no, Miramar is the base in San Diego. Vandenberg is the Air Force base where they occasionally scare people with their launches:
No, those were not UFOs over Fresno’s evening sky. We now know (thanks to this ABC 30 post) they were Internet Balloons or whatever.
I noticed them last evening (the two bright dots in the top right of my picture above) while staring at stuff. I first thought “Am I seeing something cool finally?”
Then thought “Nope. There is no way YOU, Mikey, are seeing something cool. There must be an explanation.” Last night I figured I was seeing a couple of stars shining through the atmosphere brighter than normal because of …. space reasons.
But now we know they were something called Project Loon (click it to find out more). This was the flight path of one of the balloons:
I’ll keep looking up. Maybe one day it will be something cooler than a balloon. Here is a video about Loon:
Well done City Of Fresno for declaring June 18th, Black Lives Matter Day in the City Of Fresno!
Well done Fresnans for showing up last Thursday, on a workday, to make such a wonderful piece of art.
The Fresno Council has just announced that June 18th will be declared as the annual Black Lives Matter Day for the city of Fresno, CA in recognition of times of Liberation from the past & a hope for Freedom in the future!
Sorry to get into ‘dad mode’ but not enough of you are wearing masks out there at the food trucks. At least not Saturday, Downtown, in the lot across from Tioga.
I would say 55% masked, 45% not. #Math
Sure that’s a good number if you’re in NE Fresno. But Downtown, youz guys are supposed to be paying attention to shit.
I’m not talking about people eating, distanced away from things. Obviously you can’t wear one then. Just talking about people, walking around, waiting in line, ORDERING FOOD WITHOUT A MASK.
Here is a handy checklist for ya non-mask wearing folks:
Screw the person taking your order.
Screw the person in front of you.
Screw the people behind you.
This is why we’ll all have to stay home again come October, No Mask Guy.
Anyway. I still managed to enjoy my first truck tacos in three months, thanks for asking.
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