Watch
Mark Duffy in re Dr. J: “I remember when he was briefly ‘Dr Chapstick.’ Now,...
Feb 29th
In My Secret Life.
While a good deal of it is embarrassingly hokey and a few of the performances are over the top,...
Feb 29th
Is it just me or is it one of those days where it seems like...
Feb 29th
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Either the Times thinks its audience is full of effete retards or I am just, finally, really old....
Feb 29th
America, America
Bowman said Elmo is James’ favorite character. James even has Elmo slippers, but the...
Feb 28th
Gawker blogger takes controversial stand...
“The difficulties and discrimination faced by gay youths is clearly a subject that Cooper...
Feb 28th
Do we REALLY have to live through...
President Bush, saying he was unaware of predictions of $4-a-gallon gasoline in the coming months,...
Feb 28th
Nothing to add.
“Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had...
Feb 28th
Just for the Buñuel of it.
Feb 28th
For the ladies.
We’ve had Amy’s piece on misogynistic movies sitting in the well for a while now, but...
Feb 28th
Just another day at the office.
Cechin: VERY, VERY impressed, both with headline and content BALK: I’m more excited for all...
Feb 28th
This is totally gonna be the new...
WARNING: Images kinda horrific, particularly if you’re upset by the fact that these things are...
Feb 28th
Astounding.
Vladimir Putin’s iron grip on Russia is so total and complete that even the traditional...
Feb 27th
Only current and former Gawker Media employees know the deep...
Feb 27th
Momentum.
Clinton Adds a Half Delegate
Feb 27th
My stalkers are exactly the kind of...
“(So really what I want to tell you is that I have this little game I play with my google...
Feb 27th
Barack Obama: "My Cock is HOT"
Guy needs to dial down the confidence a little bit.
Feb 27th
Diablo's Overcoat
I’ve got a ton of stickies around my office to remind myself of future features, but because...
Feb 27th
Extra points for use of "glowier."
“Jennifer was the most amazing at giving birth I’ve ever seen a woman. I’m closing...
Feb 27th
You ever think you’d live to see the day when a phrase...
Feb 27th
Genius at work.
So I had this theory that all of Will Ferrell’s movie roles lately owe a major debt to Bill...
Feb 27th
Absolutely disgusting, but not at all...
“Last week Foreign Policy released a survey of “more than 3,400 active and retired...
Feb 27th
Apart from all the exclamation points.
Just a great, great piece. It reminds me of this one, which contains what is to my mind the funniest...
Feb 27th
The Art of Headline Writing (A Continuing Series)
Feb 27th
Sadly, this is the proudest...
It’s Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Diablo Cody As You’ve Never Seen Her Before, Unless You...
Feb 26th
I totally did not see that one coming.
“But rock and roll redemption could only come as escape. In real life, what Radiohead’s...
Feb 26th
If you look closely you can see the...
Eh, that’s probably unfair; there’s no mention of her dog.
Feb 26th
If you hate this vagina-haver you hate...
I know it’s a waste of time to get worked up about a feministy-but-written-by-a-dude! article...
Feb 26th
“Is there a TMZ video of anyone else arranging her hair in...”
— Sasha Frere-Jones
— Sasha Frere-Jones
Feb 26th
"So you're saying the N-word is out?"
“The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the...
Feb 26th
Everything you need to know about Greg...
Of course, Seventh Tree will surely piss off hard-core disco dollies, but think of it as the...
Feb 26th
Great analysis, Dave.
Citigroup Inc. disclosed that traders in its investment bank piled up daily losses of more than $100...
Feb 26th
There are jewels in the crown of...
More than half the adult population of Great Britian are missing teeth. Tomorrow: the food is...
Feb 26th
Yes, of course it’s the Sun.
Feb 26th
Rough business.
There’s this, and then there’s this, which is much more eloquent and is pretty much the...
Feb 25th
Sadly, nothing came of it.
Still, one of the best texts I’ve received from a co-worker thus far. Yesterday...
Feb 25th
Always working.
So New York is getting a ton of attention for its naked Lindsay Lohan spread. 20 million page...
Feb 25th
Just surfing for porn, really.
So what else is Dolce up to? His contributor’s note says he is “currently dabbling in...
Feb 25th
Pimping.
I read that Vanessa Grigoriadis piece on Britney over the weekend and I have to admit that it was...
Feb 25th
2003 Nostalgia: Which Is More...
This or this? I’m voting for the first one, but only because the second one, while obviously...
Feb 25th
Some day I hope to be this important.
“David Bouley does not answer phone calls,” a restaurant employee said.
Feb 25th
Potential title for a porn star's...
Don’t Come In My Mouth And Tell Me That It’s Raining
Feb 25th
Listen
I’m a bit feverish. Have a good weekend.
Feb 23rd
Query
Are you the kind of early adopter who bought both a Betamax back in the ’80s and an HD DVD...
Feb 22nd
I'm in a mood today.
This should have probably just gone over here, rather than there, but whatever. Also, I wanted to...
Feb 21st
Undertones.
A friend of mine gave me a CD last week called Pfffffftshka: Sounds of the Russian Steppes....
Feb 21st
"She wears clothes... just like her dead...
“On the very streets they used to amble along with Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and...
Feb 21st
Uh, no.
It starts out really nerdy.
Feb 21st
Watch
You know, no matter how many times they use it, I will never stop laughing at the “hip...
Feb 21st
Feb 21st
More half-formed analogies.
Monica Lewinsky is like one of those kids who got polio right before they developed the vaccine. A...
Feb 21st
Lines that I sadly, but wisely, decided...
As of press time there was no word from McCain campaign spokesmen as to how the revelation that the...
Feb 21st
Awesome! What kid doesn’t want more soda?
Feb 20th
Britney Spears' Poor Housekeeping...
“She desperately wants the kids,” a family source tells Us. “She cries about...
Feb 20th
The idea that we can have an economy by...
The coveree has become the coverer! Or whatever. Anyway, nice bit by Choire about how magazines...
Feb 20th
Daddy Don't Live In That New York City...
I always take it as a major compliment when someone mentions a post I’ve written and says that...
Feb 20th
This video of some poor sonofabitch getting sucker punched...
Feb 20th
On naked Lindsay Lohan.
“[H]ard not to see the whole enterprise as a suicide note with unusually intense art...
Feb 20th
Attention must be paid.
Doree Shafrir’s spinning instructor needs to give her more praise.
Feb 20th
The ironic thing is I really hate that...
[INT: Bowels of Clinton Texas campaign headquarters, last night. Campaign manager addresses...
Feb 20th
What work is.
Tyler: i’m sorry. i had to cheese out on guantanhomo Tyler: it was that or guantanamo gay...
Feb 19th
Uh, if history has proven anything,...
Across town, 14 steelworkers brought together to talk about the election say they predominantly...
Feb 19th
I haven't seen this one yet, but if...
“John McCain spent more time in a Vietnamese P.O.W. camp than Barack Obama has spent in the...
Feb 19th
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Who hasn’t had...
Feb 19th
Fuck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Some sorry-ass ignorant mofo has never heard of Camargue Fleur de Sel.
Feb 19th
Naggy Bitches Just Can't Understand Why...
“Many feminist leaders were careful to say that they do not think Clinton lacks the ability to...
Feb 19th
What the fuck, Polk Awards committee?
We did a whole piece on that fish that makes you shit orange! We had a detailed investigation of how...
Feb 19th
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was...
A couple weeks ago, in the course of one of the many memos that I send out to the online team (which...
Feb 19th
Missed opportunity.
I’m disappointed by Barack Obama’s response to the accusation that he plagiarized a...
Feb 19th
She's kinda perfect, isn't she?
“[I]n Portfolio’s March issue, Sophia Banay offers another look at [Natalie] Bancroft...
Feb 19th
"I'm sick and tired of them...
“This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognize it,” John...
Feb 19th
“Much taken by what Alexa Chung – a person I have never heard...”
— The great Howard Jacobson
— The great Howard Jacobson
Feb 16th
Listen
Contrary to current popular opinion, which states that there are no such things as guilty pleasures,...
Feb 16th
I've had enough comedy from this...
“The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat...
Feb 15th
Danger Mouse strikes again.
Former colleague outs me as gay.
Feb 15th
On the job.
This might come as something of a shock, but laboring at a fly-by-night web empire owned by an...
Feb 15th
The Indiana Effect.
I haven’t seen it anywhere yet, and I’m wondering why more people aren’t talking...
Feb 15th
"Oh, no, it's some assistant history...
“We will force John McCain to openly denounce on TV each one of Ann Coulter and...
Feb 15th
Does Heidi Montag want it badly enough?
“This isn’t a job for the faint hearted or the easily offended. Popstars are never more...
Feb 15th
Separated by a common language.
“Sara Cox: How I went from ladette to lady via binge-drinking, drugs and open-air sex” ...
Feb 15th
Random wisdom.
“People think it’s weird that Sid found a freak like Nancy but New York is filled with these...
Feb 15th
Sweet mother of Christ.
“These identity thieves don’t want your money. They want your quirky sense of humor and...
Feb 15th
None of these people should be allowed in the dating pool...
Feb 15th
Stupid poseur Meghan McCain fails to...
“‘Back in my past life,’ admits 23-year-old Meghan McCain in a recent posting on...
Feb 15th
“This stemmed from an idea I got while I was working on...”
— You know, if I had ever worked...
— You know, if I had ever worked...
Feb 15th
Even I'm a little surprised by the...
Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the...
Feb 15th
Paging Daniel Radosh.
“Ms. Solis Doyle recently returned home after two months on the road to find a family...
Feb 14th
“Great news, Mom, I got a modeling gig!”
Feb 14th
And dildos for all.
In a lengthy dispatch, Choire Sicha weighs in on one of the age’s most important issues.
Feb 14th
How will you be spending Valentine's...
Take this important survey.
Feb 14th
Well, it is the city of Brotherly Love.
Feb 14th
“MAY whoever wins this presidential race reign as long as...”
— Oh God.
— Oh God.
Feb 14th
Chelsea Clinton threatens to incinerate a “leaning...
Feb 14th
I'd do it, but I'm too busy writing the...
Someone should start up a Famous Original Fake Nick Denton tumblr.
Feb 14th
New Adventures in Neology
Pablo Escolar: A coke dealer whose product makes you crap your pants. Ex.: “Dude, I’m...
Feb 13th
Spoiler: Lip-synching, beads, and lotsa...
Kylie Minogue is keeping quiet on what fans can expect from her upcoming tour.
Feb 13th
The best part of my job is the respect I...
Neel: jesus wtf is hong kong. it’s no longer a colony. a “territory”? BALK: Uh,...
Feb 13th
How disappointing. I had been under the...
“For the 26 women who take the stage each week on the NBC hit game show, life is not all...
Feb 13th
We'll just see about that.
“[E]ven if McCain’s securing the nomination shifts the dynamic, said panelist, New...
Feb 13th
Great advice, Fred.
“The good news for Republicans is that few predicted recessions actually occur. A recession...
Feb 13th
Holy shit, this is a fucking Norman Rockwell painting....
Feb 13th
This is what my life's like now.
A.J.: Alex. Hello. A.J. Daulerio here. I have a story idea that I wanted to run past you. That is...
Feb 12th
A man, a gentleman and a great blogger...
Whenever I felt like I had reached my breaking point at Gawker and it was time to go, it always...
Feb 12th
Feb 12th
Website gives up.
Holy Moly started life as the website that brought you the celebrity gossip the tabloids would not....
Feb 12th
Yes, I heard about it , thanks.
Feb 12th
I had a hard time getting a taxi this...
Every now and again when I’m a bit down I try to make a list of things that bring me a small...
Feb 12th
That can’t be good.
Feb 12th
It's a bad sign that I can't even muster...
Lenders Tap the Elderly, Disabled Lenders that make high-interest loans, often called...
Feb 12th
The tragic poignance of the business...
“‘You’re in the same industry, you go to the same shows and that’s when it happens,”...
Feb 12th
Feb 12th
“Every few years, the baseball owners announce that there’s a...”
— David Carr, exactly right...
— David Carr, exactly right...
Feb 12th
It deserves none.
Is it really possible that no band has put out an album with the title This Generation Has No...
Feb 12th
That's a lot of candy!
Sex Offender Wins $10M in Mass. Lottery
Feb 11th
From the Desk of Richard Desmond
Dear Miley Cyrus, I will pay well into the seven figures to have you impregnated by the partner of...
Feb 11th
“On a conference call to prepare for a recent debate, Barack...”
— The Jedi Presidency
— The Jedi Presidency
Feb 11th
“But as long as guys are chauffering the love limo on that...”
— I don’t know whether to...
— I don’t know whether to...
Feb 11th
The ultimate Radar post.
“American Idol winner Taylor Hicks thinks that NBC’s Friday Night Lights ‘stinks...
Feb 11th
Amy Winehouse needs to get clean, chill...
“I don’t think she deserved it. I think she needs to get her life together first, and then get the...
Feb 11th
“In certain circles these days, liking or hating is less and...”
— This is not exactly a unique...
— This is not exactly a unique...
Feb 11th
Amy Goldwasser's Lasting Legacy
“In 1968, an editor named Clay Felker bought the rights to the Sunday supplement of the New...
Feb 11th
Whew.
Tumblr really needs a “jump” feature, right?
Feb 11th
The coveted Balk endorsement.
[NOTE: Nobody cares what I think, nor should they. The following is extremely random, only...
Feb 11th
Jeez, Journal, this has been coming since Iowa at least. How...
Feb 10th
“According to the Clinton campaign, 100,000 of Hillary...
Feb 10th
Makes sense.
Robert Epifania: “Bobby the Jew.” He’s not Jewish. But he “looks like a...
Feb 10th
I want to be good, is that not enough?
In re my earlier remarks, I want it noted that “Another Nail For My Heart” is pretty...
Feb 10th
Oh. My. GOD.
Feb 9th
"Frankly, I would have expected better...
“Dozens of reputed Gambino crime family members and associates were named today in a...
Feb 8th
Buy this magazine or we'll shoot these...
“Look, I need you,” said Mr. Meacham. “And I need—I’ve got people out there...
Feb 8th
"A joke's like a chick coming out of a...
Do we really live in a world where it’s news when Britney Spears is wearing panties?
Feb 8th
Timeshifting.
One of the under-reported benefits of having New York Times content online early is that I can spend...
Feb 8th
Good for the interns.
The Times: “Anna Wintour, who bid unsuccessfully on a “sports package” at the benefit, is...
Feb 8th
Bergman on Bergman.
“I was told in film classes that if you want to be successful you should write what you know,” he...
Feb 8th
I always thought some mosquito repellent...
Now that dream is closer to becoming a reality.
Feb 8th
All the little kids growing up on the...
One of the few benefits to growing older is the ability to appreciate the things one used to scorn....
Feb 8th
IF GERICAULT WERE ALIVE TODAY: “Marc Jacobs’...
Feb 8th
We have left undone those things which...
I have this half-baked and probably unoriginal theory about how the massive flood of information...
Feb 8th
Fasting, some quiet reflection, and then...
How are you spending the first anniversary of Anna Nicole Smith’s death?
Feb 8th
Last throes.
Cheney Predicts GOP Will Win Presidency
Feb 7th
The great thing about Time Out New York is they’ll...
Feb 7th
As a Mexican, I'm offended by this.
Actually, I’m not Mexican at all. So let’s just say I’m offended on their behalf. ...
Feb 7th
Of course he’s not. Jesus was white.
Feb 7th
Watch
I can’t say I agree with the message, but, man, how much fun must this have been to shoot?
Feb 7th
Editors (from left to right): Peter Hill, Daily Express;...
Feb 7th
This story just keeps getting weirder.
Feb 7th
Where I come from we call it "being a...
“Apparently there’s such a thing as ‘voting envy.’”
Feb 7th
How's My S.E.O.?
I’d say “improving!”
Feb 6th
John Green gets lucky.
“Looking For Alaska” by John Green is a book causing controversy at Depew High School....
Feb 6th
T-shirt or bumper sticker for conflicted...
“My Other Candidate is Black”
Feb 6th
Taking one for the team.
You have no idea how much this hurt me. Winner: Chuck Klosterman for a compelling piece about New...
Feb 6th
The joke here is that Steve Madden is a...
STEVE Madden and Al Roker are partnering in a TV reality series that focuses on all aspects of the...
Feb 6th
No, Random House editor, you were right...
“I read the Styles section religiously, but my eyes glaze over the Modern Love column,” said an...
Feb 6th
I spent much of the last year immersed in all things Rupert...
Feb 6th
Crash Wednesday.
I’m sure a bunch of college kids are devastated this morning after the realization that...
Feb 6th
Things I bet black people are tired of...
“I voted for Obama!”
Feb 5th
Sadly, Dave Grohl did not make the cut.
“I genuinely think that she believes everything that comes out of her mouth. Druggies always...
Feb 5th
And now he's dead.
Once again Daniel Radosh is all over the “what the papers won’t tell you” beat,...
Feb 5th
Early, often.
Probably for the same reason I give blood—so I can be a major asshole in every other facet of my...
Feb 5th
Self-promotion.
I tend not to do reviews, so I’m particularly proud of this one.
Feb 5th
One more.
Pussoisie would be a really good word for the class of people who display the characteristics of the...
Feb 5th
Whatever.
Someone call up that Sarkozy fella and have him add pussois to the big French dictionary that lets...
Feb 5th
Clarification.
I’m not saying that the French are pussy-obsessed, although if you watch their movies and read...
Feb 5th
"Pussois" and the French.
I mean, come on. You’d think pretty much every word in French is some variation of pussois.
Feb 5th
Etymology revisited.
Okay, as far as I know there’s no such word in the French language as “pussois.” ...
Feb 5th
Etymology of "pussois."
It’s French for “pertaining to or displaying the habits of a pussy.”
Feb 5th
Oh, Will. Be less, as the French say,...
Leitch was not very impressed after attending his first Media Day. “The amazing thing about it to...
Feb 5th
It's 2003 again.
Who wants to meet at The Magician this weekend?
Feb 4th
Tiny tears.
Personally I’m more than willing to accept the possibility that this is genuine (or, you know,...
Feb 4th
John McCain, displeased with the tenor of a question,...
Feb 4th
Except for the whole "completely the...
One of Nick Denton’s best lessons was “You can’t be afraid to be wrong.”...
Feb 4th
I'd buy a ticket.
“Plenty of reasons to be happy. The only real drag is that the 72 Dolphins will now never shut...
Feb 4th
How to Prosper During the Coming Bad...
Antique Dinnerware $700 At this price, a 100-plus-piece set of nineteenth-century French porcelain...
Feb 4th
"Not for nothin', you wouldn't pull this...
“‘Here we go again, the traditional stereotype of the Italian-Americans, they belong to...
Feb 4th
Happy fans in Haiti are eagerly awaiting...
Sometimes it’s nice to be wrong. Go Hillary!
Feb 4th
The medium is the superman'd ho.
“The emphasis on cribs, or home turfs, is interesting here, considering the way Soulja...
Feb 3rd
I don't give a shit what you call them...
An article last Sunday about the ways in which successive generations have mourned the deaths of...
Feb 2nd
Jesus Christ, even the shmucks with the...
More than one 100 supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton gathered today in Union Square for a “Stand...
Feb 2nd
Goddamn it.
We may have to suffer through the Oscars after all.
Feb 2nd
You're gonna eat a bowl of chow mein and...
Three things I’ve said in the last two days that I have been assured I am completely and...
Feb 1st
Contract with America.
My old blog, the one that brought all the fame and fortune* I currently enjoy, has more or less...
Feb 1st
Sadly, they do not include Nick’s earlier injunction...
Feb 1st
"You'll call them 'Blackey and the...
‘Fines’ for Saying Hillary or Barack
Feb 1st
Like a lot of things in life, we laugh...
The whole post is decent enough, if a bit obvious, but the punchline is a thing of beauty. I doubt...
Feb 1st
I actually HAVE wondered this.
“If you’d ever wondered what it would be like to have Rachael Ray teach you how to give...
Feb 1st
Thank God it won't take any time away...
“West Virginia is considering a bill to teach schoolchildren how to handle a gun and hunt...
Feb 1st
Reasons I should not be allowed to...
To say nothing of the crappy photoshop job.
Feb 1st
And, to a lesser extent, those guys who...
Given the sorry state of the country today, I completely understand the desire to nostalgize the...
Feb 1st
Marty 2008*
Dude, whadda you wanna do tonight? I dunno, whadda you wanna do? Wanna go grab something to eat? I...
Feb 1st
I guess it's healthy, I guess the air is...
So I spent most of the week traveling, first to Philadelphia and then to Chicago. The trips were...
Feb 1st