WASHINGTON BLADE, R.I.P. Sad news for homosexuals, we hate to say. The Washington Blade, along with its sister publications across the country, “abruptly went out of business” today. Now the gays will have to read the same boring heterosexual news outlets that “Real Americans” read, like the Weekly Standard. (Or Metro Weekly, same diff.) Oh well. The Blade had been going downhill ever since it fired Jeff Gannon, anyway. [NYT]
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Don’t despair, there’s always Soldier of Fortune.
Fear not, they still have the Toledo Blade. What, that’s not a gay pub in OH?
Wait, Rev. Moon’s sons are both gay?
Track posed for Playgirl too?!
Don’t tell!
Pity the escorts and “masseurs”; they’re the REAL victims. Also, maybe it’s just because I’m really horny today, but Jeff Gannon really is/was a big bowl of self-hating yumminess, isn’t/wasn’t he?
Going Rogue are they?
[re=459523]Mr Blifil[/re]: Which one’s the Blade runner?
[re=459530]Click[/re]: Going Galt, perhaps.
Now who’s going to style my hair? Rove?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
I’ll no longer be able to get my news with a gay angle? But I love gay angle.
Speaking of the gheys losing blades, POLITICO’S Jonathan Martin is on my teevee, and it appears that he’s trying to sprout a wattle merkin like his BGF Chuck Todd.
Cock gobble gobble!
On the left hand side, great rotation. Right now an ad for “The Messenger” has Woody Harrelson, in uniform with a fruit salad plate of medals, is doing an eye-popping spit take towards Jeff Gannon!
Well of course they shut down; it’s got to be hard being an openly gay publication in a city where most of the gay population are apparently closet-case Republican congressmen or staffers, and the other papers all look to be in the South.
What do you say, Larry Craig & Ted Haggard? Do you like money more than denial?
[re=459517]Serolf Divad[/re]: That is the best website that any person has ever made, ever. Let’s nominate it for “Best Website that any person has ever made, ever” on the Weblog Award thing.
I guess this means that Lindsey Graham will be moving his M4MMWLTP ads to the Columbia Craigslist.
Congratulations gheys! You’ve become mainstream now. The niche publishers are gone,
and fangbangers are the new gay. Losing your edgy. It sucks, but that’s what happens when you get married.
What ever happened to Blue Boy, and its sister publication, Violet Femme?
2 maybe 3 things to say. 2 which have nothing to do with the above
1) I missed the great Prejean bashing/snarking…and i had a pic already for the occassion but i dont haz the sadz yet…Great Old Ones Party I changellenge your bling with this: http://www.paisleyface.com/diddleprejean.jpg
2) I think the ex Miss California has been FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD from NOM. (ill give a link when i have confirmation.
3)now for this news…WHERE AM I GONNA FIND MY ALL MALE SEX PARTIES WHERE I CAN FIND REPUBLICAN SENATORS!!!
[re=459527]Extemporanus[/re]:
Track posed for Playgirl too?!
Don’t tell!
Don’t ask, either.
[re=459557]vespula maculata[/re]: Larry Craig & Ted Haggard
Man, Elliot Gould was so good in that!
Sad news.
No more gay Blade and the Times isn’t far behind?
[re=459580]user-of-owls[/re]: I’m not asking, I’m just saying…
[re=459620]Extemporanus[/re]: Ah, who asked you?
Don’t despir, this will open the way for closeted gay publications rather than totally openly gay ones. That’s morally correct.
Those C-Street House kept signing up for ‘free trial’ subs, but never ponied up for the paid sub. In the end, it was too much of a financial drain for the Blade.
This is actually really bad, if you read gay blogs and follow the cites it seems like most of the day-to-day news items on LGBT issues at the federal level was coming from the Blade’s original reporting. The Advocate (which itself is being scaled back– staff is being let go and the print version is being reduced to an insert in Out magazine) doesn’t really do so much on the day to day stuff, and most of the blogs just relay links. There’s probably several sources that could step in to fill the void but this is going to make it harder to follow gay legislation for awhile. (There ARE reports that the staff of the Blade is going to just shrug and start a new paper– there’s going to be a press conference tomorrow.)
Weirdly both the Blade and Advocate seem to be having problems less because they aren’t successful enough as publications themselves, and more because of malfeasance at the parent companies– the parent company of the Blade was trying to start a nationwide chain of gay newspapers, and the parent company of the Advocate bought a cruise line company (???). So this is really a perils-of-media-consolidation story I guess?
Did they at least fire their president, publisher, chairman and chief financial officer and force out their executive editor before they folded? Oh, and did they stop contributing matches to their employees’ 401-K plans, too?
What psycho diseases inflict the minds of newspaper suits these days? Gawd, morons—join the human race.
[re=459678]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Free trial subs, huh? I would’ve thought the C-Streeters would’ve been more likely to order the free trial doms.
“Now the gays will have to read the same boring heterosexual news outlets that “Real Americans” read, like the Weekly Standard. (Or Metro Weekly, same diff.)”
–Or Parade magazine, in your Sunday “news”paper, which sucks so bad that no straight person under the age of 80 will read it, either.
You should post the picture of Gannon’s cock next time. Pretty large.
How will the out-of-town Republicans get dates when they arrive in DC for their conservative conferences?
[re=459804]JMP[/re]: Ba Doom Pssssh. Stay for the ten o’clock, folks… it gets a little blue!
Hey, here’s a chance for Katharine Weymouth to make some extra cash for her company while she’s REALLY leaving her mark on the Washington Post. Something tells me if Grandma were still around, she’d go for it. But I guess it wouldn’t work for her personal dating prospects, unlike those conflict-of-interest salons Weymouth tried to set up.
And yet the fucking Washington Times can’t be budged with anything less than several tons of HEX.
Not that I’m suggesting anything!
news outlets that “Real Americans” read, like the Weekly Standard.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
Today’s Post says BLADE staffers are thinking of buying the paper, perhaps warmed by the story in yesterday’s Post about the folks (gens) in that French town (commune) who bought their failing book store (à défaut librairie), because, you know, je lis, donc j’achète. The story ended with a rhetorical request to name the new rag. I thought maybe something a little décoratif: FRINGE. Well, it’s a look. You work with it….
[re=459994]Hunger Tallest Palin[/re]: Oh damn, and me with my cauldron and extra eyes of newt all ready….
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