Exploiting the Blog-to-Book Bubble: A Guide

Two blogs, Texts From Last Night and Look at this Fucking Hipster, scored contracts at Penguin's Gotham Books imprint in the past week, the latest in an endless series of such deals. Shouldn't you get a piece of the action?

6:49 PM on Tue Jun 30 2009, by Alexia Tsotsis, 7,872 views, 15 comments
http://gawker.com/5305024/exploiting-the-blog+to+book-bubble-a-guide

Which White Republican Dude Will Destroy Obama in 2012?

Mark Sanford was totally going to be the next president, until he fell in love with Maria. Now, not so much. But Republican strategists have so many other Great White Hopes! What disasters will greet them?

12:11 PM on Mon Jun 29 2009, by Pareene, 10,558 views, 95 comments
http://gawker.com/5303689/which-white-republican-dude-will-destroy-obama-in-2012

The Best of Conan O'Brien's Late Night

Conan O'Brien is set to debut as the new host of the Tonight Show this evening, which is exciting. Though we do worry that because he's now on an hour earlier, our favorite kinds of Late Night bits might be deemed too weird or risky. Favorites...

11:12 AM on Mon Jun 1 2009, by Mike Byhoff, 18,042 views, 30 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5273865/the-best-of-conan-obriens-late-night

Review: 'Eastbound & Down'

We usually leave the sports stuff for Deadspin, but HBO's new series Eastbound & Down has very little to do with sports, and even less to do with compassionate human interaction. We're cool with that.

5:05 PM on Fri Feb 13 2009, by McCluskey and Miller, 4,877 views, 5 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5153262/review-eastbound--down

'Flipping Out' Star Threatens 'Ugly Betty' Actress; Gays Unable to Choose Sides

High camp has no enemies. Besides—humorless scolds (like Anita Bryant, or Chuck Norris) produce unwitting camp through their very opposition. But what happens when it's camp vs. camp?

4:05 PM on Fri Dec 12 2008, by Kyle Buchanan, 5,566 views, 18 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5108657/flipping-out-star-threatens-ugly-betty-actress-gays-unable-to-choose-sides

Our Commenters of the Week Win a Bite From Robert Pattinson!

Do you have Twilight fever yet? You may acquire that, plus a communicable disease, if you're one of the five lucky commenters to win this week's COTW prize: a bite on the neck from Twilight star Robert Pattinson! Runners-up, you get a...

8:24 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008, by Kyle Buchanan, 2,249 views, 4 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5096423/our-commenters-of-the-week-win-a-bite-from-robert-pattinson

1 2 3 4 5 Millions Have Fought For Whoopi Goldberg's Right To Not Know...

8:00 PM on Tue Nov 18 2008, 65 views
http://defamer.gawker.com/5092541/

New Chuck Norris Fact: Thinks Gays Are Anarchists

If there's one thing Chuck Norris is good for, it's the 1995 canine buddy cop movie Top Dog. If there are two things Chuck Norris is good for, we would have to think long and hard to come up with a second thing, as we've already disavowed the...

6:55 PM on Tue Nov 18 2008, by Kyle Buchanan, 17,470 views, 51 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5092461/new-chuck-norris-fact-thinks-gays-are-anarchists

Geniuses Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris Compare Depression Conspiracies

Don't be a sucker. Those complicated, long-winded explanations of the worldwide financial crisis are just a lot of big city hokum. Fortunately, your good buddies Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris are here to set the record straight: It's a dark,...

11:19 AM on Sun Oct 12 2008, by ian spiegelman, 3,840 views, 28 comments
http://gawker.com/5062332/geniuses-mike-huckabee-and-chuck-norris-compare-depression-conspiracies

The Reflections Of A Bitter Man

On a recent fall afternoon, the actor Alec Baldwin was tossing a football around on the sidewalk by a Marriott Hotel. While the crew of his TV show ’30 Rock’ were setting up the next shot, Baldwin was clearly the star — the only...

5:12 PM on Wed Oct 8 2008, by georgiades, 13,358 views, 62 comments
http://defamer.gawker.com/5060767/the-reflections-of-a-bitter-man