Alex Balk

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Hey, kids! As the sun sets on what’s been one of the most volatile years in recent memory, let...

Dec 31st

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

The real tragedy of the Herman Rosenblat affair isn’t the way it trivialized one of history’s...

Dec 31st

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Mr. Frederick Dewayne Hubbard, “Open Sesame” R.I.P., Freddie

Dec 30th

Katie Bakes’ new crush reminds me of somebody.

Dec 29th

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Ready for a new Spoon pls.

Dec 29th

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Yeah, fuck off, I like it.

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

“Sometime after Thanksgiving but before December 25, the date...”
— Elizabeth Spiers hates the...

Dec 29th

Compared to what indeed.

Kyle Smith of the Post plays the paper’s idea of cretinous rightwing jackass as intellectual...

Dec 29th

“Pinter was, even more than most of us, a man of...”
— Michael Billington’s...

Dec 28th

I dream things that never were and say...

• There should be a country music song set in a diner based around the theme of “an...

Dec 28th

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Merry Christmas, everybody. Have a great couple days of quiet.

Dec 24th

God forbid I ever get desperate enough to pose for a photo,...

Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Way late to this one, but, man, is it ever stuck in my head.

Dec 23rd

Question for the day.

Would The Replacements’ Hootenanny still be as critically revered had it been released under...

Dec 23rd

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You’ve got to be a certain kinda confident to open an album with a song this sad. Anyway,...

Dec 23rd

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Dec 22nd

Who's making these appointments, his...

“Black lawmakers irked by Obama’s diverse Cabinet”

Dec 22nd

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Okay, fine, yes, this is one of the best albums of the year. Also Skeletal Lamping.

Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

Support your Gawkers

Dec 20th

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The second half of this record is not good, but the first five tracks are among the finest the band...

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

Coming soon.

With Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler being hailed as a triumphant comeback for actor Mickey Rourke,...

Dec 20th

David Byrne compares the newspaper business...

Dec 19th

Headline of the day.

Dec 19th

Remember Sufjan Stevens?

Indie kid, glockenspiel fan, had that album about Illinois out like a decade ago? What’s he up...

Dec 19th

Achewood gift guide! It’s what I’m getting YOU...

Dec 19th

I'd like to go to sleep and wake up in...

God knows if I’ll even still be able to afford to live here six months from now, but those of...

Dec 19th

Plenty to go around.

ANDREW Kirtzman, a former CBS News correspondent and Rudy Giuliani biographer, is the first man out...

Dec 19th

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“My head is full of storied albums, but Corky’s Debt to His Father is the only record I can...

Dec 19th

I command you to read this.

Dec 18th

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This one’s for Jeremy Piven.

Dec 18th

I probably owe you an e-mail. Sorry about that. I’ve...

Dec 18th

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The three-word plot pivot toward the end of this song is a thing of beauty.

Dec 18th

"On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits,...

Even Wall Streeters concede they were dazzled by the money. To earn bigger bonuses, many traders...

Dec 18th

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Have they developed an emoticon for the world’s most put-upon sigh yet?

Dec 16th

Compare and contrast.

Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has...

Dec 16th

The most depressing sentence ever...

miltnr: “A Texas man has been arrested after a 9-year-old girl wrote to Santa Claus asking that a...

Dec 16th

David Cho's newest project will blow you...

Innovative, astounding, electric: How does he do it? CORRECTION: This is not Cho’s project....

Dec 16th

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AD/BC: A Rock Opera

Dec 16th

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fred-wilson: This is from October, but it’s still pretty awesome.

Dec 16th

“The New York Times: A film review on Sept. 5 about “Save Me”...”
— Regret the Error selects its...

Dec 16th

Spot the difference.

Dec 16th

I've got it covered.

Chest hair, shmest hair. Call me when back hair is in.

Dec 16th

leitch: dhk: Now He Actually Is the Heavyweight Champion...

Dec 16th

“Aged 20 I went to a crowded party at the Chelsea Arts Club....”
— Tania Glyde is making a career...

Dec 16th

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“UK Cosmopolitan printed an interview with Scarlett Johansson that included quotes from an...

Dec 16th

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perpetua: Scala Choir & Kolacny Brothers “I Touch Myself” (Live in 2002) Old timey Fluxblog...

Dec 16th

“Screw you, Anj! I got one that’s gonna...

Dec 16th

"Look, if Lenny wants to starve to...

I once saw Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown go on stage somewhere in the north where they were having a big child...

Dec 16th

"I'm going to get you pregnant. I don't...

Even better: “That is a scenario that can only come from someone from Buffalo’s...

Dec 15th

Sadly, I’m in a place where this ad is now...

Dec 15th

“It appears that at least $15bn of wealth, much of which was...”
— Oh my God, I love this quote...

Dec 15th

Many traders are blaming high-octane exchange-traded funds...

Dec 15th

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Because I derive some sort of childish amusement from being a contrary asshole I enjoy telling...

Dec 15th

Overheard on the breadline.

Balk: My plans for the day? Trying to decide if I’m offended by that SNL skit. Balk: I also...

Dec 15th

Here's the sideshow we've all been...

The most-talked-about publisher in bookdom has brushed off two unflattering profiles by her former...

Dec 15th

He was a miserable shitwringing turd

A year or so later I found myself interviewing Nick formally for the first time. He kept me and the...

Dec 15th

“Look at our Lord’s Disciples. One denied Him, one...”
— Richard J. Daley

Dec 14th

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As the old saying goes, Never judge a man until you’ve attempted to strike the President of...

Dec 14th

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Gene Ammons (ts), Richard Wyands (p), Doug Watkins (b), J.C. Heard (d)

Dec 14th

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Dec 13th

Social networking.

“Mr. Madoff tapped social networks in Dallas, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis. In Minnesota,...

Dec 13th

I'm pretty sure Tumblr makes you stupid.

thegurglingcod: I never entirely bought into the idea of blog years, but I’m not sure what else...

Dec 12th

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New Andrew Bird out next month! Very excited.

Dec 12th

Just because it's true doesn't mean it's...

Bernard L. Madoff, the 70-year-old founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and a fixture...

Dec 11th

Have you ever hurt China’s feelings?

Dec 11th

Staten Island Historians Piece Together...

lowlife: NEW YORK—In what many are calling the most comprehensive study of its kind, Staten...

Dec 11th

American spirit.

A stay-at-home mother whose husband is a litigation attorney, Mrs. Sirof says that Ms. Monterrosa...

Dec 11th

The Best Viral Videos Of 2008: A...

Dec 11th

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All the clouds turn to words All the words float in sequence No one knows what they mean Everyone...

Dec 11th

Uh, no.

“Seventy-five years before the Spice Girls coined the term girl power, Betty Boop struck a...

Dec 11th

The Britney bludgeon, a weapon of torture: Pop stars tell...

Dec 11th

I love David Paterson.

Dec 8th

Via

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McHale to replace Wittman as Wolves coach

Dec 8th

Devour.TV: A story about Puff Daddy and...

Dec 8th

Caroline Kennedy

When the New York Post pursued a story about antics (Kennedy-type antics) involving her then...

Dec 8th

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Miranda Cosgrove is a frightening robot from the future armed with autotune. Soon she may very well...

Dec 8th

“There’s an urban legend that’s gone around until no one is...”
—  From an article in this...

Dec 8th

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What is your favorite memory of him? As I cooked dinner most nights we would usually coordinate...

Dec 5th

You ever have the feeling that...

It’s ‘cause they are.

Dec 5th

“Favreau’s case seems unlikely to be so dire;...

Dec 5th

Okay, we get it.

“THERE are no tanks in the streets or protesters occupying the airport, but Canada is in the...

Dec 5th

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In re Kath and Kim, I think any Arrested Development comparisons are WAY overstating the case, but...

Dec 5th

Goddamn Pareene.

This is definitely one of the top ten Gawker kickers of all time. I understand the impulse that lead...

Dec 5th

The most popular ways to fiddle expenses

Dec 5th

Word of the day.

Prorogue.

Dec 5th

First things first: for better and worse, I have had more professional experience with financial...

Dec 4th

I LOVE LOVE LOVE that the Sporting News is using this photo...

Dec 4th

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God bless us, every one.

Dec 4th

I know what I'm getting Balk for his...

Dec 4th

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Dec 4th

In defense of cocaine.

This is pretty good.

Dec 4th

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No I don’t know the reason why I’ll love you ‘til the day I die

Dec 4th

amandalynferri: If you stop smoking for 3 days you get an...

Dec 4th

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Dec 4th

I had no idea they’d dedicated a bench in Soho Square...

Dec 4th

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Dec 4th

Dear darlings Doree and Krucoff: Guess what?...

Dec 4th

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Dec 3rd

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Does Pete Shelley get enough credit for being a genius? It says here he does not.

Dec 3rd

Dahlia Lithwick is about as good as it...

“It took six months for Jacqueline Fitzgerald, a kindergartener in Hyannis, Mass., to tell her...

Dec 3rd

I’ve seen the future, brother. It is murder.

Dec 2nd

I read this as “goys,” which at least makes the...

Dec 2nd

I'd haul out My Cock for this one, but...

While female readers may respond to photos of skinny, flawless models with negative feelings about...

Dec 2nd

Senate candidate Jim Martin flanked by Young Jeezy (left)...

Dec 2nd

Okay, fine, his assessment of Xtina’s...

Dec 2nd

The above cartoon perfectly expresses the way I feel about...

Dec 2nd

Advice for the recently unemployed.

Every day brings more news of layoffs and staffing reductions. At this point I’m now a veteran...

Dec 2nd

I know there are various neurological...

but aren’t David Carr’s speech and gestures almost exactly like those of John Carney in...

Dec 2nd

Dec 2nd

Off the books.

“Rod got his check for September’s Radar piece yesterday.” Rod is referring to...

Dec 2nd

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It begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul

Dec 2nd

Defining deviancy down.

“Fox News journalist Chris Wallace on Monday evening defended President Bush against criticism...

Dec 2nd

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It begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul

Dec 2nd

Liz Smith, financial analyst.

“IF YOU are saving your money anticipating harder times, I’d say the best investment you...

Dec 2nd

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It begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul

Dec 2nd

Amnesty’s Fiona Smith had been explaining to the presenter how human trafficking was big...

Dec 2nd

He’s only 9, but this pint-sized pickup artist...

Dec 2nd

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It begins with your family but soon it comes round to your soul

Dec 2nd

Idea whose time has come.

How The Grinch Stole Christmas, an opera in three acts by Philip Glass

Dec 2nd

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peterfeld: Hey Ya Charlie Brown (see previous post): This is old but I bet some of you haven’t seen...

Dec 2nd

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So underrated, this soundtrack.

Dec 1st