Moby Thanks Fans For Support After Beatdown

12/13/2002 5:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(12/13/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Moby was assaulted by three men outside a Boston club on Wednesday (December 11), but the singer claims he wasn't hurt that badly. He also thanked fans for their support.

"Thanks everybody for the outpouring of support," wrote Moby in an online journal entry. "I don't want to in any way compromise the support that I've received, but I have to say that I really wasn't all that badly hurt...My face is kind of puffy and cut up, and my lip is a bit swollen, but I'm actually OK, thanks."

"Maybe I should go out and run into a table so that I could look really beaten-up. After 'Jackass' I believe that the slightly beaten-up scurvy pirate look is quite fashionable. So in some ways I should thank the courageous thugs in Boston (three guys with mace against me, a little inbred muppet, very courageous...) for helping me to achieve that tough-guy look that's hitherto been so hard for me to accomplish."

Moby summed up, "But in all seriousness, thanks everyone very much for your concern. I'm still left quite confused as to why these guys wanted to attack me, but I guess they had their reasons."

-- Darren Davis, New York

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