Alex Balk

So is this like Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle or...

Oct 1st

nickmcglynn: The Gawker roof gets furniture! Or as...

Oct 1st

Earworms.

If you find yourself unable to clear that accursed Sarah Palin flute song from your head, have a...

Oct 1st

Annals of terrible management.

I was referring to Balk’s tendency to assign increasingly wild and random story ideas to...

Oct 1st

There are filler items, and there are...

and then there are items that you run no matter the merit because OMG how CUTE are those kids?

Oct 1st

Can someone please tell me how to piss...

“We don’t believe it for a second, since the bitterness between the two goes way back....

Oct 1st

Not afraid to be serviced

Oct 1st

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D.R.I.N.K.

Oct 1st

That INCONSIDERATE fuck!

“David Foster Wallace killed himself on my birthday earlier this month.”

Sep 30th

I sink a few more ships, it’s true, than...

This pirate story just keeps getting better.

Sep 30th

I know we live in an accelerated culture, but, Jesus,...

Sep 30th

As someone whose blood pressure is so...

I’ll just say “You can have my salt shaker when you pry it from my cold dead...

Sep 29th

The mind reels.

“The worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that...

Sep 29th

I can’t tell you how much pride it gives me to work...

Sep 29th

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“Tiny Tears” it is!

Sep 29th

Because there really should be.

Just wondering: Is there a Gawker commenter named PRESIDENT SNARKOZY?

Sep 29th

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My favorite Tindersticks album would have to be Simple Pleasure, and nothing will undo the visceral...

Sep 29th

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Apart from Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin bit, this was the only good part of Saturday Night Live last...

Sep 28th

The most incisive reaction to the debate...

“McCain did awesome.”

Sep 28th

Maureen Dowd

I just figured it out. She’s the worst girlfriend ever, the one who gets loaded at the bar and...

Sep 28th

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Morrissey and Marr collaborate for Smiths hits and rarities compilation

Sep 27th

Yes.

Everything John McCain did on stage last night was consistent with trying to score tactical points...

Sep 27th

Love this.

The journey to this poignant, uneven movie, through a succession of worse and better ones, began in...

Sep 27th

Paul Newman

For my money, the opening sequence of The Verdict is almost perfect: the shot of Paul Newman...

Sep 27th

I will be liveblogging the debate this...

right up to the point where Jim Lehrer asks supporters of both candidates to hold their applause,...

Sep 27th

McCain campaign officials so ashamed of...

Asked about Palin’s performance in the CBS interview, a McCain official briefing reporters on...

Sep 26th

For your evening viewing pleasure. The best part of this was...

Sep 26th

Ladies and gentlemen, Vice President...

Sarah Palin: The Miss Alaska Pageant

Sep 26th

This was brought to my attention with the preface that...

Sep 26th

I think, today of all days, the LAST...

“With the longer resume on foreign policy, McCain is expected to overtly raise doubts about...

Sep 26th

Chris Rock on Larry King

WATCH. He OWNS.

Sep 26th

Yeah, I WONDER WHAT THAT REASON MIGHT BE

“To be sure, Obama also brings more than just good fortune. He is young and handsome and a...

Sep 26th

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Part Four

Sep 26th

Gregg Gillis will stalk you and may also...

But whatever, points for choosing the only other popular Gerry Rafferty song.

Sep 26th

Again with the pork. Okay, we get it,...

“A preview of what you’ll be eating for the rest of the century from Momofuku chef David...

Sep 25th

What a remarkable age it is in which we...

Really, what a time to be alive.

Sep 25th

Lil' Wayne is blogging for ESPN the...

Sep 25th

Some days I worry that I might just...

Ned Lamont: “It really is a financial tsunami, and it could go either way,” said the...

Sep 25th

Schlep it up.

I go back and forth on Sarah Silverman, but, yeah, fine, this video has its funny moments.” ...

Sep 25th

“‘As one satisfied producer in Arizona put it:...

Sep 25th

Analogy I gave up on

“Like letting loose a fart on an empty elevator in hopes that you’ll make it down to the...

Sep 25th

I don't know how I missed this, because...

In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy...

Sep 25th

Who ya gonna believe? Me, or your own...

Palin: The interesting thing in the last couple of days that I have seen is that Americans are...

Sep 25th

Or beleaguered. Beleaguered's good!

“A front-page headline on Wednesday with an article about Warren E. Buffett’s plan to invest...

Sep 25th

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Part Three

Sep 25th

"Here's a little free advice for the...

I want to assure alexbalk.tumblr.com readers that any time I make statements like this one where I...

Sep 24th

Hell, who needs debates?

Sep 24th

"Hell, I like Obama fine. Think he's...

“In an interview with CNN’s Larry King airing tonight, Bill Clinton offered a slightly...

Sep 24th

Claymates: The Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle

“I don’t understand the timing of all this information, or supposed information....

Sep 24th

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Part Two

Sep 24th

“Let me give another example of credulity. The following...”
— Roger Ebert

Sep 24th

We buried a news nugget here!

Can YOU find it?

Sep 23rd

“A boy banker with ruined nostrils (OK, ignore the ruined...”
— Howard Jacobson

Sep 23rd

This thing looks like that thing.

The Sarah Palin lookalike stunt that the Daily News pulled seems like such a Post thing to do....

Sep 23rd

If you enjoy arty photos of 90210’s Shannen Doherty,...

Sep 23rd

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Part One

Sep 23rd

Economic czar.

Pretend for a second that I’m an idiot in all matters financial. Actually, don’t...

Sep 23rd

You know, for kids.

How to explain the bailout to a child. Or even a very sluggish adult!

Sep 22nd

As gay marriage booms in California, the wedding industry is...

Sep 22nd

You know it's gonna be a GREAT FUCKIN'...

when you’ve already been at the office for three hours before you notice the giant toothpaste...

Sep 19th

Hahahaha. Oh, Internet, I’m so glad you’re able...

Sep 19th

Expert Opinion

The Rack weighs in on Titgate.

Sep 19th

See, white comedians write black...

I actually kind of love this? It seems shockingly unObservery though.

Sep 19th

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The Week of Shame ends here. This one… what to say? It’s not a terrible song by any...

Sep 19th

How much is that sad face in the window?

youngmanhattanite: For all of Denton’s crazy-ass pay schemes and ugly ad-splattered walls, NOTHING...

Sep 19th

This is the kind of leadership they don’t teach in...

Sep 18th

Carney to Leave Dealbreaker for New Silicon...

Sep 18th

So we currently have a post up about Gawker, and they...

Sep 18th

This seems to be one of the most clear and insightful...

Sep 18th

Fuck you, Firefox, STOP HITTING ON ME. What part of...

Sep 18th

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You think Balk’s Big Week of Musical Embarrassments is a joke? The kind of thing where someone says...

Sep 18th

The economy is so bad that the White...

White House press secretary Dana Perino: “Look, we all know the fundamentals of the economy...

Sep 17th

The kids are BRINGING IT today!

K-Ray: “Forester, unironically, thinks that Obama ‘is arrogant and has a problem...

Sep 17th

Market turmoil affects us all in different ways.

Sep 17th

trainwrecks: bagcoffee: I think the same two guys who stand behind me and bitch at Bowery...

Sep 17th

Alone and forsaken.

Can you pity George W. Bush?

Sep 17th

I got nowhere else to go! I got nowhere...

I was walking down Second Avenue yesterday when I saw a woman retrieving something from the trunk of...

Sep 17th

Fader was one of the most socially awkward individuals...

Sep 17th

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Week of Shame, Part 3: There’s absolutely no excuse for this one. Also? It was used in Bill...

Sep 17th

Evolutionary solutions

“Creationism should be taught in science classes as a legitimate point of view, according to...

Sep 16th

Adventures in dipsomania, a continuing...

Was at this bar last night where the cocktail gimmick is “jam.” They take a gin and...

Sep 16th

Um, I went a little crazy?

Seriously, I need an editor some days. Horse-sexing? WTF?

Sep 16th

Shepard Fairey blah blah blah

Sep 16th

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Okay, if yesterday’s was embarrassing, this one is positively cringe-worthy. The band is...

Sep 16th

There's nothing sadder than a...

unless it’s a make-list-of-funny-related-items-post with a terrible Shakespeare reference used...

Sep 15th

Walt Disney Presents: The Sarah Palin...

Hysterical, even if you’re a boy!

Sep 15th

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I can already tell it’s going to be a disaster of a week, so don’t expect much here....

Sep 15th

Hey everybody

I KNOW I owe you an e-mail. I’m sorry, things are CRAZY right now. I have a weird compulsion...

Sep 12th

Sigh.

Major news outlets have written such fact-checking articles for years. “But in the last two...

Sep 12th

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Sep 12th

As someone who is still laughing I do not have a lot to add,...

Sep 12th

A Child's Treasury Of 9/11

I’m biased, but I’m pretty sure this is the greatest thing you will read today.

Sep 11th

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cajunboy: My latest little project. Titled Huge. More info can be gathered on it here.

Sep 11th

I'm not gonna stand here and wait.

As Cho put it when I told him about this, “I don’t understand this country.”

Sep 11th

Watch

Still love this song SO MUCH. [Via]

Sep 11th

Gregory Mcdonald, RIP

They tend to be overshadowed by the popularity of the Chevy Chase movie, but the Fletch novels are...

Sep 11th

Sep 11th

Congratulations To The GOP For Finally...

This gets a little rambling and unfocused at the end—fuck you, it’s early—but the three words...

Sep 11th

...

…

Sep 11th

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I’m of the opinion that Lambchop’s cover of this song is one of the previous...

Sep 11th

Sep 11th

Wolves, Lower

The next new McCain ad. Pretty classic Rovean strategy: Does everyone concede that you’re...

Sep 10th

Do me a favor and try to inject the word...

Sep 10th

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Sep 10th

You're just going to have to accept that...

This is one of those times.

Sep 9th

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I was zipping through the Tumbltard section of my RSS and I saw someone had posted the video to...

Sep 9th

Shit or go blind?

Should Obama be worried about the recent polls? Yes and no.

Sep 9th

O.J. Simpson has a new life in Miami, new friends, and a...

Sep 9th

The secrets of our hearts.

As a man grows older and comes to terms with his own mortality, it’s only natural that he...

Sep 9th

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Sep 9th

Too easy.

Sep 8th

"Money can be exchanged for goods and...

I asked Choire if he could do us up with a very basic explainer on the whole Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac...

Sep 8th

"All Frankie wanted for his birthday was...

My veteran tutelage of young Ferrari as regards Hills coverage (“I dunno, just watch it and...

Sep 8th

The next time I bitch about my job...

remind me that I was doing this a year ago.

Sep 8th

Sep 8th

Well, it IS hurricane season.

Sep 8th

If you're scoring at home...

God has given awards to both Britney Spears AND the Pussycat Dolls. That’s right, God has the...

Sep 8th

Now performing "Black Cherry" b-sides:

Xtina

Sep 8th

You know what must suck?

Being known as “the ugly guy” in Slipknot.

Sep 8th

Did they DUCT TAPE Pink's nipples?

Sep 8th

Don Haskins

RIP

Sep 8th

Uh oh.

Lil Wayne just got John McCain elected president.

Sep 8th

But seriously.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?

Sep 8th

Oh, thank God.

I was SO WORRIED about the Jonas Brothers, but the kid in the middle just whipped out the...

Sep 8th

So good.

Sarah Palin Is Not a Hockey Mom She’s a hockey player. She’s a fourth-line hockey agitator,...

Sep 8th

Uh oh.

Russell Brand just got John McCain elected president.

Sep 8th

I think going forward...

every musical number ever should be A Lightsaber Tribute to “Thriller.”

Sep 8th

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This one’s been stuck in my head for the last couple of weeks. No idea why, except for the...

Sep 7th

Remember all those predictions about how the attack on the...

Sep 7th

Tomorrow night you WILL be at The Half King (505 W....

Sep 7th

This fucking etc.

In response to my earlier praise of Neel’s amazing Vegas piece, abbyjean writes:...

Sep 5th

Administrative notes.

I’ve been agitating for an urban affairs correspondent since I arrived. I’m proud to say...

Sep 5th

You're Neel Shah.

Your editor likes to make fun of you because a) it’s so easy, and b) you usually deserve it,...

Sep 5th

Attention college students! (And...

Can’t get enough Radar or Radaronline.com? Have a lot of free time on your hands? Want to be...

Sep 5th

American eBay.

Sure, Sarah Palin didn’t actually sell the state plane on eBay. But she did at least think to...

Sep 5th

You never saw Mark Spitz do this kind of...

Michael Phelps enjoys the spoils of victory.

Sep 5th

Ah, there we are.

All’s right with the world. Okay, this duster ain’t gonna huff itself. I think...

Sep 5th

WHERE'S THE GODDAMN BALLOON DROP?

They’re doing it indoors! There’d better be a fucking balloon drop!

Sep 5th

John McCain can have my vote RIGHT NOW

if he promises that we NEVER have to hear “Raising McCain” again. It’s the...

Sep 5th

Okay, the last minute was...

but sweet Christ, could they not have mic’d it up a LOT? It was his FUCKING MOMENT.

Sep 5th

Gee, I'm sure I'm really going to be...

after the way you spent five minutes attacking teachers ten minutes ago!

Sep 5th

He deserved it to be his.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for what John McCain went through in Viet Nam. That’s...

Sep 5th

MODULATE, motherfucker.

It’s either “Warshington” or “Washington.” Pick one and stick with it.

Sep 5th

Holy shit!

Did you know that when John McCain was five years old they already had cars?

Sep 5th

Speaking of drilling now...

I just want to quickly mention that, negativity aside, I think Cindy McCain looks very good with her...

Sep 5th

"Government that doesn't make your...

And that holds true all the way until it comes to your uterus.

Sep 5th

Three families?

Three lousy families? That’s ALL John McCain fights for? Ron Paul fights for eight families...

Sep 5th

Let's hear it for the Farmington, MI,...

Woo hoo!

Sep 5th

John McCain could have won my vote just...

had he simply looked at that protester and said, “Hey, do I come down to where you don’t...

Sep 5th

The green screen behind John McCain is a...

“Don’t make me angry, America. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”

Sep 5th

Thank you, Cindy McCain

For proving you don’t have to be on drugs to look like you are on drugs.

Sep 5th

Everything about this is perfect.

Or at least close enough for Tumblr.

Sep 4th

Really? 'Cause I thought the problem...

“‘Community organizer’ is to Barack Obama what ‘war hero’ was to John...

Sep 4th

PLEASE GOD NO MORE SARAH PALIN

To make an analogy that the governor herself might appreciate, we are using every part of the...

Sep 4th

What the fuck, Fall?

Days like this are supposed to be Summer’s domain. MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN YOU SONOFABITCH. ...

Sep 4th

Also, what's up with the pronunciation...

Noted political analysts Choire Sicha and Alex Balk weigh in, respectively, on the Giuliani and...

Sep 4th

Don't get me wrong, she did a fine job,...

“Could she possibly juggle the nearly impossible art of reading a long and detailed speech off...

Sep 4th

Don't mourn, organize

David Plouffe—who really needs to stop e-mailing me with a request for $5 (dude, it’s NOT...

Sep 4th

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Sep 4th

From Katy Perry to Tila Tequila, girl-on-girl chic is all...

Sep 4th

Uh, crap.

Sarah Palin was, of course, going to have a successful speech no matter what, but I don’t care...

Sep 4th

Just a thought.

Maybe the reason John McCain didn’t pick Kay Bailey Hutchison had something to do with all the...

Sep 4th

A Man's Guide to Fall Auctions

“I walk around New York at night and stare into those expensive apartments uptown and all I...

Sep 3rd

Sep 3rd

Cho and I are always looking for ways to maximize traffic.

Sep 3rd

Can anyone really say ANYTHING surprises...

A source close to the Beverly Hills baby store Petit Tresor tells CelebTV.com exclusively that a...

Sep 3rd

“Palin’s a big fan of aerial wolf hunting. What is...”
— The Deceiver

Sep 3rd

Also unappreciated: His astounding vocal...

Jerry Reed, R.I.P.

Sep 3rd

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Is this song REALLY 20 years old? Sweet Christ.

Sep 3rd

Rowr.

Sep 3rd

Administrative notes.

So the slow rollout of the new staff configuration at Radar begins today. We’re all tired and...

Sep 2nd

Today’s feature is by a talented up-and-comer named...

Sep 2nd

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Summer’s over. Welcome to the beginning of a new year.

Sep 2nd

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Sep 2nd

He's right, actually. Who amongst us...

Republicans are warning Democrats that if they attack Governor Palin’s family over the...

Sep 2nd

“AC/DC’s 1986 release entitled “Who Made...”
— Amazon.com Top 500 Reviewer...

Sep 2nd

How in the hell do you make Joe...

Each new fact we learn about Sarah Palin—her reversal on the bridge to nowhere, her disagreements...

Sep 2nd

BristolGate: This Just In

marklisanti: The McCain campaign shortly is expected to release a statement indicating that newly...

Sep 2nd

Levi's genes.

Sigh. So much for the holiday. Oh, also, the spiky-haired inventor of microfame—and embeddable...

Sep 2nd

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“You’re not my Jackie, my Jackie was the best.”

Sep 1st

Fuck you, news cycle!

Why can’t you save this shit for days I’m actually working? Also, did you ever think...

Sep 1st