Fresno Famous

Good PR? Try Something Unique

Why doesn't Fresno try something truly unique?

For instance.... cleaning up the trash, really getting help for the homeless and mentally challenged other than chasing them around or ignoring them, doing something about the crime and gang banging, and painting (especially over the graffiti and cracking down on it harder). Empty old buildings downtown and around town, especially if they are in disrepair, no matter their history, are not appealing to anyone except transients and bangers.

Cleaning up the city and making it safier, cleaner and friendlier would do more for Fresno than any PR agency.

Mr. Void is still listening

Mr. Void is still listening to the voices in his head, instead of reading what is written. By the way, if you think 85 is warm or that every city in the world has air cooling in the average home get yourself a passport and get out in the world. But first turn off your little voices.

Hey Out of the Void

Do you have carpal tunnel syndrome yet?!

close, but...

Hmmm, the bee stops publishing articles about the great things elsewhere, (so now we don't celebrate other great areas, we don't talk about what exists outside of Pleasantville,)
That's scarey... instead of facing and enjoying the reality of here and everywhere, ---everywhere now just doesn't exist anymore...

-they stop 'ignoring the local things,' (okay, this is good, but now, instead of discussing all areas (Fresno equally represented,)
-We focus purely on what happens in Pleasantville. (made even further creepy by the fact that we no longer acknowledge anywhere else...)

-'Great Disaster free Place, lots to do.' (okay, I guess that's a point, there are things to do, and we don't have disasters, (sort of like dating someone who is a great catch, 'because they havn't murdered anyone,')
--seeing the isolating of Fresno (away from,) the outside world NOT as a Disaster??? open to interpretation.

-wrapped up with the stellar: 'If you think summers are hot, try spending some summer time in an area that has winter snow. Hot and humid.'
-whups... So much for Rule Number one...
Is Fresno great because Fresno is great on it's own merits?
NO... Fresno is great because 'somewhere else sucks worse' (Hot and Humid after snow.)
-Sorry, a little humidity on an 85 degree day isn't so bad, they have air conditioners over there too, if you'd like, --and the air happens to be clean and not cause the respiratory concerns such as here. Oh yes, when that snow's melting? It's called SpringTime, the ground is a bit mushy, (and there is flooding sometimes,) --but the air is pungent with the scent of grass, leaves, flowers, (some use the word magnificent to describe this.)

Besides, I thought we weren't going to talk about what happens outside of Pleasantville??? Oh wait, --it's just talking about those places comparing them as BETTER -that we can't do,
--But we can use other places to make US look better.

Totally shoots premise in the foot.
Isolates the town (no longer us and them, now it's just 'us,')
---bring in the 'them,' as a negative comparrison.

Does anyone else see this treadmill?
-'The world bashes us in their television, their film, and their music, we're sick of it, ----but we'll talk about others the way they talk about us, because we'll stand on others to stand taller, ---and gripe about how others stood on us all this time.' Why do people complain about here being called a 'barnyard,' ---and piss and moan about the pecking order, --when they insist on pecking others aside (beneath) them????

---Maybe it's the HYPOCRACY of the mindset that warrants the attack of others.

Putting down the weapons, and removing onesself from the arena of being a pissing post means doing that completely... hellloooooo.

If Fresno wants to improve itself, great, (we all need improvement,) but that means really dealing with it's own issues, (starting with the double standard.)

Second, seeing other places as a threat, and not wanting any mention of other areas as being beautiful (in the paper,)
-is the geographical equivallent of a marriage where one spouse keeps the other close by assuring them 'that there is no one else out there, that all others are worse, and (PS.) everybody else will only tease you and call you ugly...' (Rather than simply improving their own selves, and loving their spouse more... (please, Don't even bother Dr. Phil with this, Not even Oprah, we're wandering into Jerry Springer.)

Any healthy minded individual, looking at the above mindset, having wandered off, gone to college, taken another job, gotten married and moved away,
--is quite likely to see the entrapment and deside NOT to return, (hopefully, having found that such a view is REALLY damning and the stuff that keeps people in attics for decades by their captors.)
'Nothing bad happens here, outside is worse, -WHO SHOWED YOU PICTURES OF OUTSIDE!!!, -BACK IN YOUR BOX, (ps, I love you...)'
Wasn't there a series of horror novels written about kids stuck in an old house somewhere who grew up thinking this way? (V.C. Andrews? Flowers in the Attic?) not sure, I had a choice of either that or a decent Road Atlas, guess which one I picked...

My advice: Seek counselling, and do so quickly,
-then go to such wretched places as Washington State, Minnesota, Montana, Iowa, Phoenix, New England, or even (Gasp,) New York, Pennsylvaina, or (horrors,) Paris, London, Munich, (They do this thing called 'different weather there,' (Not just Hot and Fog as benchmarks,)
---the locals will help you to survive, and you may just like it...'

Then, if you enjoy a challange, return here, and start a very loud foundation to (hopefully,) emancipate, help, and heal others who think exactly as you do now...

(Thank God the Bee is no longer showing photos of the Caribbean, and Vermont... and will instead cover every last square inch of Woodward Park, (I was so worried.)

In all seriousness? The answer is quite easy, (and money well spent.)

Think...
How does a decent person become known around town as being decent?
They simply are... They care for others, they do good work, they're there to help, they don't trash folks, ---and they're more interested in doing better things, helping others, and doing a good job, ---Than their OWN Image...

Fresno is falling to it's own baited trap.
It's all worried about it's image, ---rather than worrying about it's people... ('...People say bad things about us,' (well, don't do things that they can point out... The racism, the classism, the treatment of the poor that happens??? are you joking?)

Word has gotten out, the bad is known as well as the good, and we're throwing more money after hyping the good,
-not addressing and healing the bad,
-and comparing ourselves to everybody else, (or removing them from the room altogether,)

-You can powder it up all you want, and give it a french bath, but stink is stink... -deal with the stink, deal with the infection, get healthy... and folks may just start calling us that...

What folks don't get is, merely by facing their own issues, and working with them, the town will look like heaven,(others will see a place where things are being addressed and attribute great loads of 'humanitarian,' attribute,(where it's really only doing what any responsible entity would do.)
It's cheaper, it actually helps folks, is a positive draw, ---and we all look like heros...

-better than a new coat of paint, and new spotlight to glitter in, huh?

In a city the size of

In a city the size of Fresno, that is not a lot of money to clean up our image. Finally the Fresno Bee has stoped or at least cut down on out of town stories about the great things elsewhere, while ignoring local great things. Now if the local discontents could stop bashing themselves. And maybe a new clasical music critic who would apreciate the talent of locals. Fresno is really a great disaster free place with lots to do. If you think that the summers are hot, try spending some summer time in an area that has winter snow. Hot and humid.

I think . . .

I would like to see them use the money to clean up the city/make improvements. Off the top of my head, off of the laundry list of needs, the City didn't have enough ($100k) to allow them to reduce the tree trimming cycle to once every 12 years, instead of the current 25 year cycle.

two and 2/3 word, yo

Hire K-FED

give this young man a job, peoples of Fresno.
He has 4 children and more coming.
He has such good references and was a native son like Al Radka.

in your face!, Modesto

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary"

So what do people think???

What do Fresno Famous readers think about the City's decision to hire ASTONE? It was not a 7-0 vote, it was 5-2. I think it's good that there is some hesitation. What kinds of things should be publicized? Do you think the $120,000 is well spent? Too much or too little ($$$)?

heheh

close enough :)

come on now

wasn't that ring based in clovis?

you forgot about the global

you forgot about the global child pornography ring was here too :)

huh....

'....laptop lugging hippos downtown...'

(...cool, must mean that they put more water in the fountains or something...)

like it, like it a lot.

Send them our way boss...

When they polish up Fresno please send them our way. We are number one in meth production, car theft, politicians who make their lovers dissapear, riots for stupid reasons and men who leave their wives in the bay to pursue lovers from well...Fresno.

They could talk about all the great things happening here like...well...they may have to fabricate something rather quickly. If only we had a wannabe rap star that could marry a sexy trailer dwelling, child spewing pop diva. Now that would help us out!

Ruben/Motown Mojo
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