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• Something Useful We Hope You Don't Need Much in 2009

  For too long now, when discussing bad news amongst friends, I have punctuated that verbally with the traditional sad horn sound: [wah-wahhhhhhhhh]. But now, just in time for the news in Gawker's "Great Magazine Die-Off" category that one of my regular freelance outlets is folding their print magazine, my old man stumbled across a newer and slightly updated handy push-button sound effect online, with an awesome url as a bonus.  Read More... Posted Jan 06 2009, 04:42 PM by Colleen Kane with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, magazines, depression, recession, colleen kane, plenty magazine, the price is right, scanner colleen fell asleep again, sound effects

• While You Were Sleeping: Tara Reid Back To The Booze

  Guess who's to blame for the continued conflicted in Gaza? The United States, that's who-- they blocked a UN resolution calling for an end to the fighting. (Not that it would've done a damn thing to stop the assault.) Have you been buying Pepsi from the Atlanta plant? (First of all-- why are you buying Pepsi?) It turns out they are using illegal Mexican Pepsi. Marijuana has been decriminalized in Drugachusetts Massachusetts (for the most part) and cops are refusing to hand out tickets because... Read More... Posted Jan 05 2009, 09:08 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, dead people, death, senate, al franken, booze, israel, marijuana, scientology, alcohol, john travlota, Republican, rehab, minnesota, pepsi, Mexican, teenage girls, tara reid, nude photos, flying, war on drugs, massachusetts, sfw, atlanta, scientologists, united nations, gaza

• Ad Agency Sex Scandal Claims One Victim: The Cameraman

  A screenshot from the already-infamous camera phone sex tape of a guy's co-workers getting it on, with the annoying Gawker addition of a turkey to cover the "naughty bits." If you haven't seen it yet, you haven't been missing anything (the time you spent glancing at the above photo is more than enough)... although the story has gotten a lot more interesting in light of what happened to the guy who filmed some of sexcapades and spread the clip around via e-mail. Read More... Posted Dec 01 2008, 04:55 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, mad men, advertisements, employment, jobs, sex tapes, camera phones, sex scandal, ad campaigns

• Sloppy Seconds: Photos of New Planets, Yay!

  Same-sex heart transplants are the just better. (We'll resist gay marriage jokes here.) Justin Long: from Drew Barrymore... to Tila Tequila? We're glad neither are divulging the make-out details. Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's aide was arrested for... guess what? Read More... Posted Nov 13 2008, 05:18 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, space, tila tequila, making out, photo of the day, david letterman, drew barrymore, same-sex hookups, cnn.com, perverts, democrat, justin long, pregnacy, heart, planets, jamie-lyn sigler, russell brand

• This Week In Gayness: Fauxmosexuals Ruining It For Everyone Else

  There were millions of people at Rio de Janeiro's gay parade this week.  The Pin-Up Girls do burlesque for the LGBT crowd. We just want to know their tour dates and that is all: [The Girls embrace] all different types of women. Girl on girl action, these girls make a big splash in the LGBT community. In other words, after a performance, there is not a dry seat in the house. [Lez Get Real] The Connecticut Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage pointed out the absurdity of gay marriage opponents arguing against the institution of marriage: Read More... Posted Oct 14 2008, 09:49 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: religion, lgbt, gawker, music, pinups, gay marriage, connecticut, court, burlesque, brazil, this week in gayness, lesbianism, McDonald's, homosexual, religious fanatics, katy perry

• Sloppy Seconds: It's a Cold, Black Friday

  Last night's vice-presidential debate was the highest rated, televised VP debate ever. [Yahoo!] Even Hillary Clinton had some nice things to say about Palin's performance. [Faded Youth] And we kind-of hate Sam Ronson a little right now. [People] Read More... Posted Oct 03 2008, 04:55 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, hillary clinton, sloppy seconds, George Bush, fired, lindsay and sam kiss, sam ronson, sarah palin, sarah palin nude, vice presidential affairs, bailout, v p debates

• Sloppy Seconds: The Truth About The "Abusive" Paul McCartney

  An earthquake this morning registered 5.4 on the Andy Richter scale and was felt from LA to Vegas and down to Mexico. There were no reported injuries as of post time.  Although he's charged with a DUI, Shia LaBeouf was not at fault for the car crash that flipped his truck. The other driver has been ticketed for running a red light...  PageSix claims Marc Jacobs has wed in Paris... and if you didn't know, he married... Read More... Posted Jul 29 2008, 04:51 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: charlize theron, gawker, babies, wtf, weddings, charity, gay marriage, paul mccartney, heather mills, perez hilton, Paris, Los Angeles, indie rock, earthquake, abuse, animal, Mexican, jennifer aniston, scarlett Johanson, las vegas, indie culture, shia labeouf, dui, car accident, marc jacobs

• Today in the Apocalypse: Man Injured in Mooning Prank Gone Wrong

  Continuing signs of the coming apocalypse today in a variety of bizarre arrests and other News of The Weird exclusives. The Tampa, FL area continues to be a source of great amusement for Scanner bloggers-- today's story features a man brought in on felony charges for building a treehouse on a chemical company's forested property so he could feed his addiction to horse racing.  Raymond Rogers built hisself a fifteen-foot-high tree house in what he probably thought was some abandoned forest so he could use binoculars to eyeball the track. Rogers told police he had been banned from entering the grandstand itself after "causing problems with the customers." Hmmm...   Other signs of the coming apocalypse include: Gawker reported on the above photo, which they claim is a real candid of a drunk driver showing up late to watch a Mexican bike race... More after the jump...   Read More... Posted Jun 03 2008, 03:13 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, horses, john McCain, drunk driving, accidents, New Orleans, robbery, mexico, Mexican, bicycles, mooning the camera, today in the apocalypse, muggers

• Scanner Highs And Lows: You Take the Bad, We'll Take the Cannoli

  We got into as much trouble as we could, whether we could get away with it or not... This week's highlights and footlights, after the jump.  Read More... Posted Apr 18 2008, 09:39 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video of the day, gawker, science, george clooney, arrests, Sex and the City, nerds, Barack Obama, sex, Jessica Simpson, big love, Pras, chrissie hynde, David Cross, anthony bourdain, rick santorum

• NYC Oversharer To Blame Internet For Her Misery

  Normally we'd feel a litle weird about posting the picture of someone who's allegedly engaging in a secret office romance with a coworker. Like, we don't know who this person is, or what her story is, and God knows it's between her and her bedmate whatever happens between them. Except, as Gawker reports today, when she goes and blabs loudly about it at the airport... Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 02:04 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, privacy, law & order, office romance, cell phone etiquette, affairs, Orwell

• Video of the Day: The Onion Movie Trailer!

  If the readers of Gawker hate it, it must be funny... Read More... Posted Mar 10 2008, 09:00 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: movies, video of the day, gawker, sex, comedians, the Onion, naked bodies, nude, humor, DVD, netflix, catholic schoolgirls

• Christopher Hitchens and Gawker are SOOO Right About Women Not Being Funny!

  Dear Hamilton Nolan, Thank you for having the courage to say what nobody else, besides Christopher Hitchens and most males, will say:  women comics Suck! And Christopher Hitchens Rocks!  You write  The problem they [female comics] have is they often talk about things that women can relate to—relationships with men, babies, periods, shopping, love. As a man, I can't relate to all that. That puts women comics at a distinct disadvantage when trying to win over me and my fellow men. This is obvious day, right here. THANK YOU! I can't STAND when Sarah Silverman talks about her babies and periods, or when Tina Fey talks about her relationships or shopping. BORING! And I too wonder why "girls" bother getting their frilly pink panties all up in a bunch over Christopher Hitchens. I love your point that Chris [that is SOOOO cool that you call him by his nickname!]  Hitchens is a brilliant, repugnant slob of a man, and any argument he makes should be taken as one from a male point of view. For him to say that women aren't funny is for him to say that they're not funny to him, a man. THANK YOU! That reminds me of when the PC nazis spit up their fair trade soy organic lattes over my occasional harmless observations about black people's inferior intelligence. See, I'm a brilliant, appealing, slob of a white person, and any argument I make should be taken as one from a white point of view. For me to say that black people aren't that smart is for me to say that they're not smart to me, a white person. So take a chill pill ladies... and black people. Read More... Posted Mar 04 2008, 05:04 PM by Katie Halper with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: tina fey, gawker, sarah silverman, Women are funny, Christopher HItchens, Hamilton Nolan, women aren't t funny

• McLovin' Isn't All That Into Getting Freaky With You

  As if the New York Times wasn't taking enough flak for its terrible reporting of the McCain sex ring, now their readers are LOL'ing at the gossip rag's reporting of a new study that seems to indicate all those Judd Aptow-Seth Rogan movies are not quite accurate depictions of teenage sex lives: A new report in The Journal of Adolescence this month suggests that when it comes to sex, girls and dating, boys are more complex than we typically give them credit for. While hormonal urges are no doubt an important part of a teenage boy’s life, they aren’t necessarily the defining trait influencing a boy’s relationships with girls. Read More... Posted Feb 26 2008, 09:00 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, gawker, teenage wasteland, Batman, james franco, teen pregnancy, sex, salon, Juno, ellen page, seth rogan, superbad, mclovin, freaks and geeks

• Gawker Does A Primer on Internet Grossouts. 'Cause That Makes Sense.

  Huh. Apparently part of the new world order over at Camp Denton's flagship site, Gawker, is to assume that its readers have just discovered this magical new thing called "El Interweb" and therefore need a rundown of the legendary grossout perv memes like Two Girls One Cup, tubgirl, and goatse. Which maybe they do, but... no, actually, we're pretty sure they don't. Don't get us wrong: we love that someone put together a one-stop shop for historic internet nastiness, if only for posterity, but isn't Gawker's doing that the same thing as, like, Page Six taking a moment to describe what a nightclub is? As in: it says more about what they've forgotten about their readers than what their readers ever needed to learn. But hey, maybe we missed something and Marco Fiorito just moved to NYC, therefore putting it all squarely under the Gawker portfolio... Oh, wait a sec. We think Gawker have removed anything referring specifically to NYC from their header, which we're pretty sure used to refer to "New York media" or something and now reads simply: "Media gossip and pop culture round the clock." Oh good, 'cause there's no where else to get that. Whatever. We're just happy we were able to use that 2G1C illo again. We worked on that for, like, 6 hours. Posted Jan 07 2008, 11:19 AM by Bryan Christian with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, gross videos, Two Girls One Cup

• Gawker Fires Tionna "Tee" Smalls

  Sad news today for the Internets: Nick Denton, publisher and interim managing editor of Gawker has fired Tionna "Tee" Smalls in the wake of just about his entire editorial staff finally leaving this week. Tionna was known for her amazing rack, for Gawker making her famous, and for her to-the-point, sometimes grammatically mangled advice: I don't know what it is about people these days but they just don't know the code. My thing is this, if you are going to cheat on me, at least have the respect to not let me find out. I mean, is that too much to ask for? Damn. We wish you the best, Tionna. And we'll be looking for "Crossfire: Tionna Tee Smalls vs. Julia Allison" to premiere after iVillage any day now. [Gawker: On the Internet, nobody goes quietly] Posted Jan 03 2008, 12:51 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, tionna tee smalls, julia allison, fired, nick denton

• Gawker Probably Still Wants You

  Reports are trickling in that it was not anyone inside Gawker who posted on Craigslist looking for characters, but that someone out there is putting up fake ads. Probably the same person who posted this one.   Knowing Gawker like we do, we figure they'll probably want to add this trickster to the list of People We Made Famous, with the likes of Julia Allison and crazytown Queens roommates Emily and Michelle -- that is, if this person is good looking. So, Trickster, unless you have a face for radio (and we have a strange suspicion you don't), come forth and show yourself. Posted Dec 06 2007, 04:58 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, craigslist

• What Major Media Gossip Blog is Using Craigslist to Find Characters for Stories?

  We're not pointing any fingers, really, more just wondering out loud and in print... but about a month ago, Gawker brought us the story of Emily and Michelle, crazytown roommates who couldn't understand why no one wanted to live in their four-bedroom Astoria apartment with them. Gawker poked good, clean fun at the girls, then later posted a video of their open house brunch. The Emily and Michelle story resulted in four posts and about 37,000 views on Gawker. Fine, fun reportage of eccentric New Yorkers, we thought... until we found this...  Read More... Posted Dec 06 2007, 08:56 AM by Emily Farris with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, employment, craigslist

• Gawker's Calling: Get Those Resumes Out and Teach Them to Sneer

  We failed to get the word out last week about the Gawker brain-drain because we were too busy cuddling on the couch and feeding each other macadamia nuts. So sorry! It's a last Friday in November tradition! Here you go: Choire Sicha and Emily Gould quit the Internet empire for what we can assume will be greener, cleaner pastures. After recent probing, critical articles on Gawker in New York Magazine and n+1, we'd expected a shrug of indifference or a fiery take-down; instead, we got resignations and kind words for Keith Gessen's book.  Although we do enjoy the image of Choire and Emily walking wistfully down an empty SoHo street into the sunset as the Iron and Wine begins and the end credits roll. But wait! This is, of course, not the end, it's the beginning. While you're polishing up your resumes and dusting off your interview suits as you apply for the Gawker managing editor position, we've come up with some job ideas for Emily and Choire. Honestly, we are THE people to be giving career advice. We had a booth at the Borough of Manhattan Community College job fair for chrissakes. Our brainstorm after the jump... Read More... Posted Dec 03 2007, 03:13 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: gawker, get a job

• Absinthe Makes the Nerve Staff Grow Fonder, Hornier

  Last Thursday night, Nerve had a party in their schwanky Soho offices to celebrate the launch of our new corporate name, Material Media, and our third publication, a green-lifestyle mag. Huzzah! There was great rejoicing. There was also absinthe, possibly poured down the throats of some high-powered editors, who possibly had things to regret the next morning. There was also Gawker, taking pictures of our staff with fancy, postmodern squiggly lines all over the frame. Here you see Nerve writer Margot Berwin, who recently landed a book deal based on her Nerve writings. Here's the writeup.   Posted Nov 19 2007, 07:54 AM by sarahhepola with | with no comments Filed under: nerve, gawker

• Blog, Bloggier, Bloggiest: An IM Exchange About Gawker

  This week’s New York magazine has a cover story on Gawker, called “The Age of Insolence.” It’s guaranteed to get your cocktail party started, especially if your cocktail party takes place in a fashionably messy and high-priced Brooklyn loft. Your Scanner writers, Sarah and Nicole, spent a little time this morning IM’ing about Gawker, and we wanted to share our thoughts. It struck us that this was fitting, since Gawker often runs IM exchanges between high-powered publishing types, and that is us, if by “high-powered” you mean “loves to get hiiiigh.” In the interest of full disclosure, we should mention that we both know Choire Sicha, one of the editors at Gawker, and consider him to be one of the funniest people with whom we have ever shared a smoke. Also, we must cop to a smidge of professional jealousy regarding Gawker’s popularity and influence. Also, we are wearing no underpants. Read More... Posted Oct 16 2007, 01:30 PM by sarahhepola with | with no comments Filed under: gawker, new york magazine, im exchanges