96 comments:

pep said...

***rolling in his grave***

Anonymous said...

This took me by surprise because she said that she was going to keep the photo for herself. I actually like that I'm not in the five-o, because for all her naivety the woman shoots a mean photograph.

people that actually skate pulaski said...

you knew you were gettin ur shine on. thanks for putting park police on our ass for the next 2-3 weeks bloomer! fuckin faggot

Anonymous said...

yeah right park police. you gonna let them stop ya? pussy

Anonymous said...

easy to tell you havent been around lately...

dudes who hate on bloomer said...

are fags

Anonymous said...

get to know him you might change your opinion

tha god said...

If this dude wasn't such a god damned ham then maybe he would be able to tell a wretched geek with a camera that no, he doesn't want to be photographed. I believe dude above who claims you were convinced you were getting your shine on, which is fucking insane, because who get's psyched off of doing the easiest trick for a stranger's camera. What the fuck, it's bad enough watching him roll around like he does, I'm just thankful I didn't have to watch him do this bullshit trick for some asshole. The photo is not mean and you are a god damned ham who fucked up Pulaski for the rest of us. On behalf of the little dude who got fucking tackled today by Park cops, eat shit and die you dumb fucking ham. Your stee is ugly as shit in that photo anyway. Big ups to Pep.

Anonymous said...

amen. if u were there today you know how it fucking went down, and we can all thank bloomer the lying prick for blowing up the fucking spot. i know he sure as hell wasnt down there today. thanks for ruining pulaski just for some own coverage and a cheap ego boost you piece of garbage.

Adam Turrisi said...

He looks like hes wearing blush

PLus this is what someone else wrote into the post about this pic.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012204053.html/
middle of the page

Anonymous said...

Thomas Bloomer sucks!

Tool said...

Okay. I'm a licensed professional tour guide in the District, and I admit to being bit touchy about preserving our special monuments, memorials and spaces.

I was astounded to see this photo of a 21-year-old man-child skateboarding on Freedom Plaza on the front page of the Metro section.

A 1995 city ordinance forbids skateboarding on this site because it's too fragile for anything other than foot traffic. I have swiftly contacted the USPP urging them to take a tougher stance to stop this kind of activity from continuing on our beloved plazas and monuments.

Anonymous said...

haha man-child. but seriously, can it get any clearer than this? thomas bloomer, you just ruined pulaski. quit skating (at least around here), please!

Kazimierz said...

don't forget - other skateboarders have consented to the publication of entire articles about themselves/pulaski for local papers. It brought the heat too...

anna said...

wowww a picture in the post does not equal blowing that spot up- IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF D.C.!!! everyone knows people skate there,

you guys are just jealousssss

anna said...

p.s. "Tha God" is psycho or somethin... calm down

kid in tight pants on over 33 companies said...

shoulda been me. i have over 43 cons boxes waiting. moderate me

i will mop you said...

kazimiereeiz, find me the last person (before bloomer) that got a front page spread photo of them skating pulaski, or this full article youre talking about.
u think that this is just bloomer hate. its not. its hate against anybody that tries to blow up pulaski as a place you can freely skate. bloomer needs to personally apologize to every kid that got hassled by park on saturday, because it was HIS fault that that lady wrote into the post and contacted park police about the skating.

ill still mop you said...

really, wat did this photo do for skateboarders in dc? if bloomer didnt ask this lady to take the photo or whatever, he reserves every right to tell her not to publish it. tom bloomer is a dude that thinks hes crazy/artsy/mark gonzales, and the more ppl know that the happier he is. this photo only benefited bloomer, and it just fucked over anybody that was planning on skating pulaski for the next ______________ months. thanks buddy.

Anonymous said...

Other people have been had photos in the paper as well in years past.......

Anonymous said...

prove it

Anonymous said...

or better yet explain to everybody how a past article besides this bloomer photo prompted park to go apeshit on pulaski.

fuck that lady that wrote that letter said...

The thing everyone needs to keep in mind is there are a lot of ways to make pulaski hot, getting a photo on the front page is just one of them. Like putting stickers up, tagging, leaving beer cans and trash all over the place, fighting, throwing shit at tour bus's! that shut it down for a good week and a half! Cops have told us that those are all things that make it more likely for them to come. We need to protect our spot.

Smalls said...

what sets this aside from beer cans on the ground or fighting is that putting a picture of yourself skating pulaski in the post goes to the doorstep of 5 million people. the picture makes it so people who don't have anything else better to do can complain without even having to come into the city.

fuck that hipster faggot said...

but think about how many hipster whores will be on his artsy dick now

Anonymous said...

it's just really fucking sad how possessive people have become of this earth. lynch the landlords, burn down the malls, and for fucks sake crucify any authoritative figure who dares to put their hand on you for riding a fucking skateboard.

Peace Child said...

Make love not skate hate! You fuckin' morons

Anonymous said...

^^shutup you hippie scum.

dad said...

DARREN HARPER " The Official Skate Boarder of Wash. D.C."

the "situation" said...

I commend those of you who take time to throw away the trash everyone else leaves after a session.

It seems the bitch lied to Tom, saying she was only taking photos for personal use. Don't feel you have to let some fuck take your photo, you can always say no.

Many of you have been poached by Elvert Xavier Barnes whether you knew it or not.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/perspective/sets/833226/

Ham or no ham, Bluemer was also victim of circumstance...he's not the editor at the Post. He didn't have a Paul McElroy article proclaiming that Park cant stop us from skating pulaski everyday.

And here's a circumstance that would get any of you: super hot chick asks if she can shoot some photos of you skating and is chatting you up. well ok that might not get dahmer

queen said...

stop talkin shit u wish u were on 33 companies u kook go back 2 slap

Anonymous said...

jesus christ this is soo fucked....motherfuckers ruining are goddamn spot

Jelani OG Winston said...

you pussies shut the fuck up he was skating that spot before all you faggots saw kick push on tv and descided to head to your local toys r us and hop on the fucking band wagon if you were true pulaski gs you wouldnt be getting tackled youd know the shake and bake get your fucking moves up kids and he dosent need cheap publicty to get hype my dude has footy in thrasher before you could read and he was 16 putting it down like a grown ass man with his own style that spot has been blown up sience day fucking one get use to it, it aint the first time pulaski has been in the news. if he wanted props he wouldnt have disapered for 2 years to go do his own thing and came back on the sneak still better than all you fags and i aint scared to put my fucking name on this shit
Jelani Fuckin Winston get at me real pulaksi fam knows what it is go work on your flat land kick flips at courthouse with the rest of the poser fags

Jelani OG Winston said...

and all this coming from the same people who tag the fucking ledge up, leave trash and beer cans all over the spot, smoke weed on the spot, throw shit and tour busses, rip speakes out the theater, get in fights, hit cars run out in front of cars, man yall changed for the worse you know shits getting out of hand any ways i dont skate much anymore cause i got my own dream to chase but you know shit wasnt flying back in the day when paul sammy tyler tucci jimmy and c hall was still arround when i started skating instead of bitching about not being able to skate why dont you protect your spot stop talking shit to tourist and fucking rasing hell all day man up and start laying the smack down or perpertraters and fakers.
stop whinning and do something about it bloomer is only a small part of whats been going on. and im not saying this just to the newbs and young bucks but to the people from my gengeration its all yalls responsibilty

Anonymous said...

oh, ok. nice myspace.

Anonymous said...

jelani just raped all you goons

? said...

I'm sorry but jelanis post doesn't even make sense

J said...

what he's sayin is no one regulates properly like it used to be years ago. and the kinds of behavior goin on aint helping our interest in skating there

THE BEST SKATER IN DC QUEEN-D said...

THAT OG FAGGOT IS WRONG IN TOO MANY WAYS

cody said...

you're lame if you think bloomer is a faggot for this at all nothing got blown up everyone knew already ya fucks

STFU JELANI said...

IF you knew jelani u would laugh at his skinny chris col wanna be little african ass,.....TO anyoe who cares....U CAN SPONSOR JELANIS FAMILY FOR 30 cCENTS A DAY

Anonymous said...

its not the same jelani you prick

jelani said...

yea wrong person stupid...

STFU JELANI said...

Ur dumb too fag

jelani will lay the smack down said...

put your name on your post and say that dont talk shit on line thats real homo man up cause when im back in town you wont say shit

Anonymous said...

save the internet beef. these fools just like to talk a lot

SUCK A DICK JELANI said...

Jelani Ur gay fag STFU u aint gon do shit i RUN chocolate city u RUN FROM IT!

Anonymous said...

see what i mean

Anonymous said...

Why's this any different than Tucci having a whole article in the Washington Post Magazine?

SUCKADICK said...

Cuz Tucci is an awsome skater not some punk ass kid who quit skating and then comes back just for the washington post
and jelani is gay

Anonymous said...

So basically the only problem here is that he isn't as good as Tucci?

Any of you guys that are saying you would've said no are kidding yourselves. Not because you wanted publicity, but because you wouldn't have thought that far ahead. No one would've and it's lame to blame him for it.

If there's anyone to bitch about, it's the man-child lady for complaining.

D-Weezy said...

lmao @ me knowing more than one person named JELANI

anonymous is a retard said...

this is to the kook that commented 2 posts ago under anonymous. the reason the tucci article is different is bc there was no front page spread of tucci skating pulaski. it was a article in the washington post magazine, and although he was on the cover, it wasnt of him blasting across pulaski. anybody that looked at the metro section on january 20th could see bloomers faggot ass doing a 5-0. the tucci article didnt have pictures of skating at pulaski, it just refrenced him skating it years ago. most people that saw an article about some skateboarder prob skipped right over it, but a front page photo is kinda hard to fucking miss.

stop trying to defend bloomer. he was a fag before he quit, and hes a fag now that hes back, and nothing you right is gonna put him in a good light so shut the fuck up.

Anonymous said...

It had a white wall sequence (gnarly as shit too, if you don't remember it immediately, I have my doubts you even bothered reading it), and if I remember correctly, it took up a full page.

He had no control over the situation and its dumb as hell to hate on him for it. I'm not sure what the hell kind of benefit anyone is going to get from blaming anybody.

I haven't met him and couldn't give two shits if he's an ass or not because this specific incident has nothing to do with whether or not he's a kook.

urmom said...

its funny cause in the long-run, its sick that this kind of photo gets published. We're spitting in the faces of park police/authority. Shows we can't be stopped. dont be sour

URMOMsdumb said...

because of that attitude ^^^above^^^ all the good spots will be knobbed, and all the decent spots will be "hot" "spots" wheere security and police will be on guard

anonymous is a retard said...

you say that he had no control over the situation? then why the fuck did he give his name, age, and hometown to the fucking photographer. it wasnt like she was taking a picture from in the bushes, she was right there, and he knew it was a perfect opportunity to shine. anonymous, i have my doubts you even skate pulaski. the tucci article didnt trigger huge busts, but this bloomer photo obviously did. youre a kook.

urmomma said...

I wouldnt b sayin this about other spots, but pulaskis already the iconic skateboardin location in DC - every cop of every sort knows it, so does everyone else. its no damn secret, its not the new rail u found and figured out how to unknob

huge busts come and go no matter what, as you should know. maybe it was also real "hot" at pulaski shortly after bloomers photo cause o the nice weather (as stated in the photo caption). The sharks come out when temps rise and mobs of suburb kiddies metro down for their first pulaski experience. There were easily 50 kids at pulaski for several days. bait and switch

Anonymous said...

If he wanted attention do you honestly think the first thing he'd do was a 5-0? The photo didn't trigger huge busts, complaints did. You're fucking joking if you're telling me you'd tell someone no if they asked for a photo...I know for a fact I wouldn't have turned them down. Not for the attention, just for the sake of not being an asshole. There's no way anyone could've expected something like that to bring the heat in advance.

And no, I don't skate Pulaski anymore. I moved to Richmond a few months ago. Looks like I made the right choice too

Anonymous said...

lane?

Anonymous said...

lame

Anonymous said...

nice

anonymous is full of shit and so is urmomma said...

first im gonna address urmomma's comments: busts dont have shit to do with the temperature, and you have no idea what a bait and switch is you just thought it sounded cool and assumed nobody knew the real meaning. park police cant bait the skateboarders with nice weather, their control doesnt reach that far. also if you skated freedom at all this summer you would know it was great weather, and weeks went by with no busts at all. it was rare to even see a park car drive by pulaski. i know freedom isnt a new spot, but when ppl make complaints to park police there are going to be more busts plain and simple.

and anonymous, youre just an idiot yet again. its obvious that the photographer identified themselves as an employee of the post, which is a good sign its gonna be in the paper. no, i would not have let her take the photo, and i think most of the ppl that actually skate there would say no too. how is asking a random person to stop taking your picture being an asshole? idiot. im glad you moved to richmond, i hope you keep cutting your jeans 3 inches below the knee, keep ridin that fixy, and keep guzzling them pbr's, and please, do us all a favor, and stop talking shit on a dc blog and never come to pulaski again, becuase it looks like your hellbent on ruining it for the ppl that actually live in this area.

Anonymous said...

Talking shit? Dude I haven't taked shit on ANYONE but the bitch who complained. The entire reason I took the time to say anything was the un-warrented shit talking. Who cares whether or not he knew it was gonna be in the paper, I don't remember saying shit about him not knowing it would be. All I said is that it's ridiculous to expect a simple photo to light Pulaski up like a Christmas tree. Especially when there have been others in there before that haven't caused any problems. You're lying out your ass if you're trying to say you would've seen it coming.

We can agree to disagree about people letting them shoot it, but before it caused any problems, I highly doubt all that many people would've said no.

I'm glad you're stuck in DC. The hipsters here might be irritating, but at least I can go for a day without hearing childish name calling and shit talking. Enjoy your hate scene.

christflwos said...

your a fucking idiot if you think a photo of pulaski on the front page WOULDNT bring heat. you obviously havnt skated here enough to know. bottom line is he should have known better

Anonymous said...

Once again, it's happened before and hasn't caused any problems. There really isn't that much else to say. If it makes you feel better to blame him, go ahead.

urmomma said...

im talking about those first nice days after a cold period, when the surge of skaters is imminent and park knows it. and though i didnt spell it out for you, bait and switch applies to all the wildcard kids who come to pulaski, thus serving as bait. makes it easier for seasoned skaters to avoid the shark's bite, and also helps satisfy their quotas for tacking and clothes-lining us.

and to add to what anonymous said, the lady apparently didn't identify herself as a post reporter, but rather said she was shooting for her own recreation. seems a bit suspect, but then again, artists like having proper captions to their work, being documentarians

and further...the guys who threw decks and trash at a tourbus few months back brought FAR more heat...that caused park to literally post up at pulaski for a few weeks. All you can say about bloomers photo is there were a few days when park came during the following weekend. So? That happens every so often...its a given

anonymous and urmomma....the worst retards ever said...

anonymous nothing is worse than the hipsters of richmond (except maybe the hipsters of nyc). im glad i can go downtown and know 100% that you wont be there.

urmomma, you still dont know what a bait and switch is. what you described is not a bait and switch at all.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bait-and-switch

learn the meaning well before you attempt to blabber about it again you stupid bitch.

go back to the skatepark said...

I'm guessing that 90% of you posting have been skating down at the fort for less than 5 years? if you had been than you would remember when Paul had an interview in the paper skating pulaski and talking about how "the park police could never stop us" it shut it down for almost two weeks! and they were looking for paul by name. Paul didn't mean to bring all that heat, but he did and he new it and said sorry. So yeah shit like that does bring park, other things do to, smoking weed, leaving beer everywhere, tagging, throwing shit at people, duh. also to that fucking coward that said he moved to richmond, fuck you! don't ever come back! trying to act like theres to much hate!?! have you ever been to any other city on the east coast? DC is not nearly as bad as most of them, sure people like tom get some hate, but its cuz he quit and was telling everyone like he was so cool cuz of it.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like he gave the cops a reason to come after everyone. That was basically a call out to people with more power than skaters have. What can you expect when you publicly say something like that.

Honestly, I still don't think very many people would have expected a reaction like this. Especially when there was a full page spread shot less than 30 feet away from this photo that caused brought no extra attention. It's actually pretty weak that you can't go for two or three weeks without skating the same spot. More cops in one place means fewer in others. Just let it go. He made it clear that he wasn't expecting it, give him a break.

And as for the Richmond thing...

A.) It might be annoying to listen to kids who think they're artists argue over who's better between Pollock and Rothko, but it's a hell of a lot better than listening to who stole what from who and constant childish name calling.

B.) Do you honestly think I care about skateboarding so much that I would fucking relocate because everyone in DC is too mean? Fuck off. I'm in school here, and the more time I spend down here, the more I appreciate how nice it is to go for more than a week without hearing bickering. Does it really piss you off that much that I ended up liking the skate scene down here better? If it does, congratulations for proving my point.

skull fucker said...

i could give a shit what you like or diss like, but when you talk shit about the place I like! then yeah it pisses me off, and makes me want to fuck ur skull.

let the banning began said...

calling it a "hate scene"! get the fuck out of here!! if you are so happy to get someplace nice? then why the fuck are you on here a DC web site spreading hate!?! and I don't know what stealing shit you are talking about? you mean the terrible twins? yeah they need to get their license revoked also. anyone coming down once a month and doing nothing but causing trouble should get banned!

Smalls said...

im 99.9% sure paul did not apologize to anybody over that article. to the dude whos all about richmond: if you care so little about the dc scene, then why have you consistently posted paragraphs worth of rumors and lies? and finally, the dude who posted right before me: your anonymous comments about stealing and the twins wouldnt have come from anywhere but behind your computer keyboard. dont talk about things or people you dont know the first thing about.

Anonymous said...

sorry but paul did apologize 100%

Anonymous said...

Never said I didn't care, just that I like it better here. DC's still sick, but it's absurd to say the hate/arguing hasn't gotten out of hand. It wasn't even supposed to turn into that argument though. He asked if I skate Pulaski that much, I answered honestly. The last few times I skated down there, I heard nothing but shit talking. Not to mention everywhere you turn on the internet is also nothing but shit talking.

Honestly I'm not even sure where the whole me-spreading-hate thing started, when it was the other dude who immediately jumped down my throat for taking Bloomer's side. Disagreeing with someone isn't the same as hating.

Please fill me in on the rumors and lies though. I'll admit that I was never that involved and most of my knowledge of what was going on was through stuff I overheard/read online.

yung geezy said...

paul apologized. it was warranted, because he blatantly challenged park police. tom just allowed a photo to be taken documenting what goes on at pulaski every day. anyone could walk up and snap a photo of us skating. who knows, maybe fox5 will cut a short news story on us one day, for better And for worse

Anonymous said...

they have a bunch of times

Jelani said...

First off im not even gonna address the lames saying stuff cause i left DC grow up i still rep my city from a far, and you probly live outside DC in columbia or some shit anyways. say something to all the other sucessful people who left to do it big lie john igei and jack curtin, you wont say shit to or about them so suck a fat one.

and like stated before no one said shit to darren when he got a 5 page spread in the city paper, on of course pauls article in the paper no one says nothing. you know why cause it dosent matter the spots gonna be hot anyways get use to it, its been that way sence day one dosent take much for them to shut the spot down for 2 weeks and camp out look at go skate day, bet you homes show up to get your palace to pulaski shirt even though you know that shit blows the spot up hardcore i mean its a whole fucking parade of kooks who dont skate pulaki making it hot for people who do.
but im cool with it cause it aint abou that anyways. if you dont like bloomer thats personal but dont flame him for this shit its not like he asker het to put it front page in the metro section no one saw that coming and he didnt ask it to turn pulaski into a bust.

but like i said get use to it some days that spots a bust some days it isnt.
either way you guys need to do a better job keepin the spot in check every time i come home it looks like shit cups cands roll ups and trash every where and sparpie tags all over the ledge that shit isnt helping at all start cracking down on shit like that no unintentional pictures, wheres the 80 comment blog on that shit. fuck threaten people who moved to richmond go fuck wit the real problem.

and post your name on your comment its easy to try and act like your somebody with fake names, when you know your just some 13 year old kid on in alexandria somewhere

duh said...

"its been that way sence day one" get a fucking clue it wasn't a bust till around 93

Andrew Feldt said...

Everyone that is talking shit about this is a kook. Get out in the streets and see what's really good. Come see me whenever and say some shit to my face if you think otherwise....Feldt, aint hiding behind no fake ass name. Pulaski has been running for all these years because all of us homies been down there putting in our time making sure no faggot cops gonna run our park. OG's and younger heads. Sure scene might be recently a little hot cause of some front page shit, but don't doubt or fret cause DC we go hard and no faggot cop gonna touch us and as long as we stay true to the scene, keep an eye out and an ear open, Pulaski is our's for the taking. Sure we need some more regulating, when I was a kid Paul and Tucci scared the shit out of me, but now I only respect them for what they did. So get off the internets, quit hating, quit hiding behind some fake ass name, and get on your fucking skateboard and show DC whats good, cause aint no fucking Officer Snow or no fucking Officer Mollot gonna tell me or any of my fucking homies whats good, cause they are all pigs and can eat a dick. If your scared or shook because you think this brought the heat to Pulaski, think again faggots, cause the heat has been there for a minute and the only reason we still gettin it in day after day is because DC skaters stay true and don't care about no faggot park, cause all they good at is chasing squirrels and sucking cock. Crusha, whole Pulaski crew stand up DC homies we in it for LIFE!

Smalls said...

get em feldt

Danze said...

best comment feldt.

Anonymous said...

wait, was that guy 'feldt' being serious? that was perhaps the dumbest comment yet. bottom line, bloomer's a bitch.

anonymous still a fag said...

dude youre such a fuckin kook, go talk shit on the bornugly site or something

Jelani...............get em feldt said...

FELDT YOU ARE MY HERO.........MY NIGGA! GET EM SON

OWNED!!!!!

Feldtttt said...

fuck feldt . that shit was stupid. i cant believe how many people ride his fucking dick. I cant wait for the " say that shit to my face" comment. fat fuck

Jelani...laughin at you bitches said...

thats funny your such a pussy you still wont post your name on your comment man up

Anonymous said...

You cant say no to somebody taking your picture, as a photographer they have the right to take any pictures as long as they are not trespassing on public property. even though he probably wanted the picture taken. The most he could of done was turn away from the camra.

Anonymous said...

well that would have been better than doing some spread eagle 5-0 four inches from the photographer

Derek Zoolander said...

Who gives a shit. Pulaski's for drinking beers and getting into fights anyway. Quitting skating and committing suicide is where it's at.

Anonymous said...

The fact that you wanted your picture taken by someone that works for the the bull shit newspapers... not a skate mag... equates to you being a fukin kook. the fact that you made the cover of the style section makes you a super fuckin kook and there for should be hung from the washington monument. Pulaski is our spot. the general public does not need to know about what we do here. You cheesy muff.

Anonymous said...

BTW... Ugly fucking 5.0 of all time.

Anonymous said...

"it's just really fucking sad how possessive people have become of this earth. lynch the landlords, burn down the malls, and for fucks sake crucify any authoritative figure who dares to put their hand on you for riding a fucking skateboard."

Cryfag

Jelani said...

btw the people who made the last 3 post are fags

and what the fuck is a muff you should be hung from the monument for using that word cause your def not from DC for saying muff

you muffin faggot

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