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Anyone have an internal email confirming the closure of Genre? We've had a couple of tips, and the newspaper's editors aren't taking calls. (The only people mourning the moribund gay title's demise, apart from the staff, will be the strippers of all sexes who have benefited from the generosity of proudly pan-sexual editor, Neal Boulton.) Update: Damn. False alarm. Boulton, a special friend of Rolling Stone supremo Jann Wenner, writes in to say Genre is walking taller and stronger than ever before. (Don't push it, mate.)
This is the problem with blog responses. They set aflame raging rumours. Genre is NOT only NOT closing, but it is experiencing record growth, the addition of a new bright team of staffers, as well as an increase in circulation, and advertisers across many key categories. What's more, Genre, unlike it's competitors, who seem to be staggering around the competitive set looking for help, is walking taller and stronger than ever before. Mark my words: Genre will be an irrepressible force in publishing, so stay tuned!
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ask michael bolton. I think he got cc'd on that one.
Ask towleroad, he used to be the editor right?
Nick, could you pepper all of your posts with Britishisms? Please?
"Boulton, a special friend of Rolling Stone supremo Jann Wenner..."
It's like, don't worry, even when we are wrong, we will find a way to be a dick about it.
@transomist: In England, they call posts "electro-words."
@transomist: yeah, the least he could have done was refer to Boulton as a Septic cunt.
Everything is fine, ladies. We're just having a lifeboat drill so please get your warm coats on and Captain Smith will tell you where to go.
@moff: that's actually translated directly from the Chinese.
Yo, IBENTMYWOOKIE,
Damn love to meet your ass at a bar sometime and watch you say that one to my face you fucking pussy. It'd be a pleasure making IT look like a septic cunt when I'm done clockin it a few times.
Does Neal wake up sometimes and say
"Today I feel like cock action"????
@IBentMyWookie: Lady, my money's on you.
@Bolz:
The fuck is wrong with you?
@karion: yeah, Furious_George is really going overboard these days, isn't he?
@IBentMyWookie:
George has more than a little originality and creativity. This is just a tool.
Unbelievably, he just started commenting THIS MONTH. What the fuck are the odds of that?
@ karion
...the fuck is wrong with you, MF!?
Nicely handled, Nick. As we've all learned this week, the best thing to do when you've got a salacious and half-substantiated story is to broadcast it as loudly as possible.
@karion
the fuck is wrong with you!?
@urnidiot
too fucking true.
@karion: I think "Bolz" must be Boulton, huh? Which would make him gay, and is he British, too? Which one is less threatening?
@moff:
I thought that, but can't reconcile the writing style in the email to Nick with that of this commenter. Also, he is an angry little man, and gay men are all gay.
Yeah, I'm Boulton. And far from British. Laughing at all the punks on this site like CheapShot and Ibentmywookie. Can't wait to meet y'all out on the street sometime where you won't be able to hide behind your little meto' laptops and throw pussy jabs out to people you'd never have the guts to go toe to toe with.
@karion: I think he's trying to be clever and use an over-the-top stereotypical American slang style, as some sort of commentary on my use of British slang, and so forth.
Or, Egan's syphilis has finally affected the cerebral cortex.
@karion: You and your sweeping generalizations about gay men! Next you're going to say they all want to have sex with other men, too!
@ Ibentmywookie
You'd almost look good in Genre. Haven't I stuffed a few wads of bills in your g-string recently bro?
@Bolz: Dad?
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Wait. No, it's not.
@Bolz:
Bullshit. Unless you're bipolar. Maybe I should consult JA.
@moff:
Apparently, that is an issue of some dispute.
@Bolz: I thought Ibentmywookie was a girl. Have I been mislead in my commentor stalking?
@ ibentmywookie
DADDY to you twink.
Also, it's "its," not "it's." Uh, "mate."
@Bolz: Jann?
@IBentMyWookie:
I am getting more of a Page, John Page vibe.
@ I BENTMYWOOKIE - like I said. Would be sweet pleasure fucking you up pal. "Septic Cunt?" Nice.
I think both Jann and Werner could have figured out the reply button by now.
I'm going with random internet troll.
@karion: Yeah, that one always gets me.
@Bolz: Hey, also, reminder: She totally called you a Septic cunt.
@ CHEAPSHOT. Yeah I do. Don't knock it till you try it punk.
@Bolz: Would you have preferred cocksucking fuckwit? You have to let me know these things ahead of time.
@Bolz:
Seriously, you're a bad ass. Don't let anyone tell you any differently.
@IBENTMYWOOKIE
?Fuckwit? Dude, I see you, find you, and I am going film the way in which I will fuck you up for a lovely cinematic presentation on this site. See 'round pussy.
@karion: As in septic? Clever!
It's going to be pretty hilarious when Gabe Delahaye gets jumped on the street by a furious gay British stranger.
@moff: Brilliant.
AS LONG HE DOESN'T TOUCH THE FACE.
@moff: Brilliant!
@Landor Sea:
Exactamundo.
@moff: Outstanding.
@moff:
More than brilliant. Genius!
And p.s., the wonderful thing about being right about Genre's going out of business, or being wrong about it, is: IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE NO ONE READS IT.
@ Elektra
Yeah, brilliant Elektra, only 85,000 people read Genre. That's 84,500 more (I'll be generous) people that MIGHT read your tired, hag bable. Nice work darlin.
@Elektra: Yes. Apropos of the actual subject matter, the idea that Genre's circulation is growing while their online "people count" is so low is not believable. Here are the latest numbers for the website, which I assume Denton has already seen.
[siteanalytics.compete.com]
You know what's really satisfying? Flagging posts for inappropriate content even though the commenter has clearly only been on the site for one day.
Mocking someone for coming across like a self-important douchebag is vastly different from threatening to "fuck them up" when you see them in person... and I'll wager it's probably not the best tactic to employ when taking on someone with an intimate and professional knowledge of the law.
xo
Team Wookie
@Hez: Canadian law, no less! He certainly picked the wrong person to mess with.
@moff: Please God no. That is the stuff of nightmares!
@HEZ
I am much older than the "online/blogger" generation. So I find those who heckle, portend to be important pundits, or just online brats the weakest form of conributors to the discourse of the day because they hide their (usually fat) asses behind their computer screens in anonymity. I say step out and step up and meet me in person. NO ONE in their right mind would say half of this kind of shit in to soemone's face because they know-they would get a solid beating. And a beating is what half of y'all deserve. Stay tuned for that story on your blog sites.
@Bolz: Yeah, indirectly referring to someone as a cunt is a lot more offensive than repeatedly threatening to beat the shit out of people.
Y'all.
@Bolz: HAHAHA people on the internet are fat! That's the kind of