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colinmeloy:

I have the raddest wife & son ever.  One of their many collaborations…L

Let’s just say there has been a lot of SQUEALING from my side of the office this week.

Since its inception, Colin Meloy’s Tumblr has given me such varied and squealworthy insights into his soul as:

1. his feelings on Depeche Mode (conflicted).
2. the type of bird-themed inlay featured on what is presumably photo of his guitar (adorable).
3. and, perhaps my favorite: these scanned in pictures that his wife/Carson Ellis/Decemberists album artist extraordinaire, and son drew together in their happy little notebook. Dinosaurs! Astronauts! BLINKING EYES, people!

I think part of why this is so interesting is that Colin Meloy and The Decemberists’ music is the kind of stuff that, as JD Salinger has already said much better than I, makes you wish he was “a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

In the meantime I will be following him on Tumblr and reblogging pictures of his wife’s Moleskine.

I suggest you do the same.

staff:

On taking over the world, and other things…

It’s been a month of milestones for Tumblr, and we thought it would be a good time to stop and say:  Thank you to everyone for making this possible.

We can still remember watching your new posts come in one-by-one the day we launched.  Now we’re waiting for five new servers to arrive to help us handle the 330 million (that’s 0.3 billion!!) hits and 20 million new posts we’re projecting for August.

More than anything, you continue to blow us away with the amazing things you do with Tumblr.

As our team gets bigger (we’re up to 9 people!), we promise we’re as committed as ever to making Tumblr the greatest place for everyone in the world to share the stuff they love and create.

We love you  <3