I’m having a crisis of form vs. function

Working on this tumblr theme. I’m trying to decide were to put page menu. Right now I have it at the footer with the search bar. Links for the ask, submit, and custom pages are there:

I didn’t want to clutter the top. But I was putting myself in the shoes of a user and thought, “man it would kinda suck to have to scroll to the bottom every time I wanted to jump to a specific menu item.”

So now I’m thinking add a hamburger menu up top for quick access to links (don’t judge the design of the menu, just a quick mock up):

I’m agonizing over this. Is it absolutely necessary? probably not. Would it be more convenient Maybe. I think a better question is that as a blog reader and browser, would I even use those links? Maybe they truly are secondary. I keep thinking, whenever I’m directly on someone’s tumblr, I’m usually scrolling through the content first, then explore the nav at the bottom. Would it be better to use that hamburger menu as jump page pagination?

I know at this point, I’m not crazy about adding a hamburger menu at all and just keeping it simple. I probably just needed to write my thoughts down to understand what I wanted to do for this first version tumblr theme.

**Edit**

Just had a thought. What if I just use the menu button at the top as a scroll-to button instead. So clicking it just animate-scrolls to the bottom for actionable content?

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Wayne Brady calls “BS” on Bill Maher.
I don’t always post political stuff on here, but that Huff Post interview clip where Wayne Brady explains that the “black experience” shouldn’t be definined solely by people who choose to speak and act a certain way. “Obama isn’t black enough because he doesn’t enunciate his words incoherently and threaten white people”. Joke or not, that’s a subconscious implication of what it means to be black in America. I’ve felt like I’ve personally fought that stereotype all my life. Look at the clip below:

miltonsong:

team-joebama:

mediaite:

Wayne Brady calls “bullshit” on Bill Maher.

I would be happy if anyone beat Maher’s ass in public, but especially so if it were Wayne Brady
and more context from the article:

Maher first explained his desire for Obama to be a “real black president” who “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants” during a monologue in 2010. Subsequently, Maher referred to Obama as “your Wayne Brady,” a characterization that put into question the African-American credentials of both Obama and Brady.
“I’ve respected him as a comedian, and what he does on HBO is great,” Brady told Hill. “But when he starts to drag me in, to use me as the cultural linchpin of his not-black-enough argument, that’s bullshit.”

Wayne Brady calls “BS” on Bill Maher.

I don’t always post political stuff on here, but that Huff Post interview clip where Wayne Brady explains that the “black experience” shouldn’t be definined solely by people who choose to speak and act a certain way. “Obama isn’t black enough because he doesn’t enunciate his words incoherently and threaten white people”. Joke or not, that’s a subconscious implication of what it means to be black in America. I’ve felt like I’ve personally fought that stereotype all my life. Look at the clip below:

miltonsong:

team-joebama:

mediaite:

Wayne Brady calls “bullshit” on Bill Maher.

I would be happy if anyone beat Maher’s ass in public, but especially so if it were Wayne Brady

and more context from the article:

Maher first explained his desire for Obama to be a “real black president” who “lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants” during a monologue in 2010. Subsequently, Maher referred to Obama as “your Wayne Brady,” a characterization that put into question the African-American credentials of both Obama and Brady.

“I’ve respected him as a comedian, and what he does on HBO is great,” Brady told Hill. “But when he starts to drag me in, to use me as the cultural linchpin of his not-black-enough argument, that’s bullshit.”