Anyone with a strong opinion about the Yahoo thing (I refuse to use the !)
Needs to understand that this is a best case scenario for tumblr. They can’t monetize effectively, and can’t IPO, and of all the big players interested I think Yahoo is the wild card choice, and while anyone would most likely fuck this up Yahoo has the biggest incentive to be bold and let Tumblr be itself.
Everything ends. Tumblr will never be the rambunctious Wild West of the Internet ever again. We did our part, and the Internet will evolve, and devolve, in its own way.
I love Tumblr, but I’ve seen every iteration of online existence play itself out. This is just another step toward the unknown.
A gay man was gunned down in Greenwich Village early today by an armed bigot who hurled homophobic slurs at him — and claimed to be the Newtown, Conn. killer before the murder, police said today.
The 32-year-old Brooklyn victim, whose name has not been released, was walking with a pal on Sixth Avenue near West Eighth Street about midnight when they were approached by three Hispanic males, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
One man snarled homophobic slurs at the men and asked them if they were “gay wrestlers,” Kelly said.
The men continued moving and made a right onto West Eighth Street.
One of the Hispanic men left and the other two continued to follow the victim and another man.
Both the victim and another man with him were wearing tank tops, cutoff shorts and boots.
“Do you want to die here?” the shooter asked the victim.
He pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot him once in the cheek.
“It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground,” said a bouncer at a nearby club. “Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street.”
The man died shortly after at Beth Israel Hospital.
I am incredibly saddened by this story. This is the fourth hate crime committed against a gay man this month, the second just steps from Stonewall. There will be a candlelight vigil tonight in front of the Gray’s Papaya on 6th Ave and 8th St where the shooting took place. Please come if you can; reblog this even if you can’t make it. We should refuse to live in a place where we can’t walk down the street without being afraid of this happening to us. It’s disgusting and unbelievable.
Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I have complicated feelings about this video, which is refreshing.
Remember when we tried to save Vietnam by destroying it?
There is no such thing as the ‘Village Voice’ without Musto. Time to rename this corporate tabloid.
Pastor Arrested for Watching Child Porn on the Job — at Disney World
FLORIDA MAN!
Screw you, Tommy Pom, meet Waffles, our office’s newest acquisition.
I would just like to take a moment to thank the impossibly adorable little guy I saw at Starbucks earlier, who danced around to the lame jazz muzak playing, obviously hamming it up a bit for me as I grinned ear-to-ear at his twee antics.
Then the barista called out, “latte for… Pikachu?” and looked confused as he bounced up to the counter and said “Sorry, I had to!” before walking off into Midtown.
Totally brightened up my day.
Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.
