It’s official: The Tucson Weekly has joined the MySpace community.

It wasn’t as easy as it should have been. It turns out some turd had reserved www.myspace.com/tucsonweekly, and would not respond to requests for him/her/it to give the account up. Therefore, the awesome Veronica Bonfiglio asked MySpace to delete the account and give it to us.

MySpace did just that, and last week, we took over the account. Then, another MySpace department—which had also received Veronica’s request, and which didn’t realize we had already been awarded the account—promptly deleted the account to give it to us. So, this morning, Veronica started all over again.

Anyway, our MySpace page is in its infancy, but watch it for events updates, promotions and all sorts of cool stuff. Check it out!

This article appears in Nov 9-15, 2006.

10 replies on “We’ve Got Myspace!”

  1. I notice that TW’s gender, for MySpace purposes, is “male.” Well, that’s going to stir up some trouble. As long as you’re in close communication with the MySpace powers that be, can’t you talk them into some new gender options, like “hermaphrodite” or, perhaps more appropriately, “N/A”?

    If there’s a sexual orientation option, be sure to check “yes.”

  2. So the purpose of MySpace page is to get chicks? I can just imagine it. It’s going to as freakin’ exciting as the blogg effort! Coooool!

    I notice the first comment from a member “…Weekly rules!”

    Really? “RULES!” A bit premature? A 7-year-old can start a MySpace page.

    Come on ladies! Start sending them sexy profile pics!!

  3. There is a sexual orientation, and we’re “not sure.” And as for maturity, I have a picture of Beavis on my profile. I am not really helping here, am I?

  4. Here’s an anecdote concerning gender. Started MySpace page. No profile except for name “Tortillas” gender “M”. 10 minutes later there’s message from a member who’s icon happend to be her ass. We’ll THAT’s an invitation. End of story.

    I did momentarily consider the gender change for the page when set it up. But that’s totally gay!

    Pre-“mature”, dude, that’s hilarious. You must work with words or somethin’.

    Will you post sexy TW staffer photos? Perhaps a bare-assed Jim Nintzel pondering the next Skinny. Or is that bear-assed? Bear back?

  7. I’m still kind of miffed that the Weekly is male. What makes it male, exactly?

    And on my MySpace profile, it says I’m female, it says I’m married, AND it says I’m Jewish, and I STILL get requests to be friends with girls with sex pages, and Jesus Freaks. So distinctions clearly don’t matter. Which is kind of a good thing, I guess.

  9. It’s interesting that the Male/Female question is a “Gender” question. If it’s framed as gender, then it should have more options. They should make a distinction between biological sex and gender. Someone could be biologically female and yet be male-gendered, MySpace! Or they could be a hermaphrodite! That’s just so uninformed of MySpace. They should read Judith Butler.

    On a sidenote, it would be interesting to see what gender print publications with profiles on MySpace identify as…. are they mostly male, female, or is it an even distribution?

  10. Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
    Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
    Anyone having same bother – or anyone how to sort it?

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