Alex Balk

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May 31st
This is fucking amazing.
May 29th
Yes!
May 29th
This is some top-notch local reporting right...
May 29th
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May 29th
One woman, who often exchanged sex for drugs...
May 28th
It’s pretty much ALWAYS gay marriage day at The Awl,...
May 28th
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May 28th
R.I.P. Peter Zezel
May 28th
My biggest disappointment of the morning thus far is that no...
May 28th
I know nothing about soccer but I still found...
May 27th

Hug Me While I Weep For I Weep For The...

Dear Katie Bakes, You know how you can’t be a made guy in the Mafia unless you’re of...
May 27th
If there's a better blog out there right now...
May 27th
Trials are terrible things in that they bring people...
May 27th
Today's Spanish lesson: "Bloggers mocked the...
May 27th
Lehmann’s latest.
May 27th
davidcho: 50 and Bette, just hangin’ out! Am I the only...
May 21st
Okay, can we FINALLY all agree that irony is...
May 21st
This week: How to drop out of a wedding in which you are a...
May 21st
Unraveling the mysteries of "Terminator...
May 21st
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May 21st
I really enjoyed Stephin Merritt's...
May 20th
The latest from Chris Lehmann. Also stellar today: Tom...
May 19th
Exploding ovaries alert: “President Barack Obama bends...
May 19th
‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there...
May 19th
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
May 19th

No really, get your tickets now

ericasavestheday: So I do this thing every year? Where like 50 restaurants (Aquavit, Blue Smoke,...
May 19th
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I have a great version of Lyle Lovett doing this in some box at the back of the closet; until I dig...
May 18th

The talking cure.

My weekends are generally spent in a recurring cycle of inebriation, recrimination, and suicidal...
May 18th
This day was a total non-starter for me, which is extremely...
May 18th
Weirdly, "Modern Love" was not at all...
May 18th
"The political stink is now so bad that...
May 16th
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May 16th
The Global Refugee Crisis: A Study In Contrasts
May 16th
Keep this away from Mark David Chapman or...
May 14th

Unfortunately, they're all Democrats.

“Liz Cheney strongly disagreed with the claim that her father’s vocal defense of Bush...
May 14th
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May 14th
natashavc: So when it comes to Steven Soderbergh’s newest...
May 13th
Click here to live longer.
May 13th
This is kind of embarrassing and personal and...
May 13th

Idiot seeks experts.

I’m sure this lady does a good job of explaining it to idiots like myself, but I am...
May 12th

Splitting Heirs

“In the old order, of course, acceding to inherited real-estate titanhood, dabbling in the...
May 12th
This week: the pros and cons of hermitry.
May 12th
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Through the magic of transubstantiation, a post about Wandy Sykes clit jokes turned into a post...
May 12th

Going Home

Holy crap, TNT just played Mark Knopfler’s theme from Local Hero during its coverage of the...
May 12th
spiers: There is an improbably loud and circadianly confused owl outside of my window right now....
May 12th
Pareene finds the ideal Supreme Court nominee
May 11th
Clearly, the recession is over.
May 11th
Dept. of Promotions: Mr. Lehmann’s dispatch from the...
May 11th

To be fair, it's a pretty safe bet to...

This thing BEARS AN ASTOUNDING RESEMBLANCE to that thing.
May 8th

This WOULD be our sports column.

Will Manny return July 3rd and lead the Dodgers to the Pennant? Of course. It’s obviously the Cubs’...
May 8th
It’s a big moment in every new administration, firing...
May 7th

Things that will probably irk your...

“A Massachusetts man accused of murder and rape in a crime spree against nonwhites appeared in...
May 7th
This week: drug etiquette.
May 7th
I have been cackling at this first paragraph...
May 7th

Dear Self-Employed Freelancer,

I know times are tough right now what with the economy being a total disaster and work drying up, so...
May 7th
Fuck, does this mean we're going to have to...
May 7th
Our military discharge policy is now...
May 7th
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Follow this Tumblr long enough and eventually you will have heard every single track Kirsty MacColl...
May 7th
Goddamnit, it's virtually impossible to have...
May 6th

I thought the sunshine would put...

I was walking up First Avenue this afternoon when a recumbent vagrant requested one of my Marlboros....
May 6th
Bill Russell "laughs like a kid being...
May 6th
There is some joke in here about the...
May 6th
I think this broke my brain?
May 6th
“It’s tough out there when everybody hates you,” write...
May 6th
"Oh no! Obama said something mean about the...
May 6th

Catholicism WOW!

katiebakes: If Sonia Sotomayor were to be chosen by Obama to replace Justice Souter she would be...
May 6th
This is good. Unrelated: Fuck you, rain.
May 5th
A-Rod Book: All Your Questions Answered
May 5th
Mark my words: We are only months away from...
May 5th
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May 5th
Does the New York Post’s Pinch-O-Meter move markets?...
May 4th
Warch Watch
May 1st
I think he's got to pick a woman or a...
May 1st

Clues.

ninety9: Secret note to @everyone: I’m in the kitchen, making out with @girlfriend, wearing...
May 1st
Warch Watch
youngmanhattanite: c/o New Voices. See you Sunday. Dying from the awesomeness.
May 1st
God yes.
May 1st