2008

May

Since I’m over scrapbooking, this is what I do on slow...
May 22nd
Boltlung, is Reilly off of his medications again?  From:...
May 21st
Warch Watch
All the hard young literary dicks.
May 21st

Emily and Josh Redux

Whenever I think about Emily and Josh, I try to remember a simpler time, a time when things...
May 21st

Get Over It

Look, I’ve no plans to make Nick Douglas redundant despite the pleadings of this website....
May 19th
“All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet....
May 19th

Desire

I’d get down on my hands and knees and crawl across a field of broken glass just to listen to...
May 19th

The Official Richard Lawson Coming Out...

I can’t think of a better way for Lolcait to come roaring out of the closet than by hosting...
May 9th
Don’t be fooled by the tag. Scott Kidder is XL all the...
May 9th
The Brain-Trust Convenes Nick: I do hereby call this meeting...
May 6th

Calls For Making Tracie Egan and Nick...

Many of the e-mails filling my inbox today are vehemently calling for the heads of Tracie Egan, for...
May 5th

Apr

Can you smell what the Tart is cooking?  Move in closer to...
Apr 29th

IM With Julia Allison

Julia Allison: OMG Nick I have a stalker! A blog stalker! Me: Yes. And? Julia Allison: Nick, how...
Apr 25th
I have to hand it to you Boltlung—-recruiting Carrot...
Apr 24th

Nevermind Tionna

Al heard that I was looking for him and took appropriate measures. Your services are no longer...
Apr 24th
They say that a nice, clean tie attracts the soup of the...
Apr 22nd

Another Day, Another Sloane Crosley Book...

Do I really want to attend another Sloane Crosley circle jerk tonight? Do I really want to have to...
Apr 22nd

Goddamnit Boltlung!

How many times do I have to tell you that Charmin gives me dingleberries? Quilted Northern Boltlung,...
Apr 22nd

My Particularly Vile Employees

I’m more than sure that this is all Jim Lehnhoff puffing away while yapping into his celly...
Apr 22nd

An Apology E-Mail From Tionna Smalls

Yesterday, I posted this, the highlight of which was the line, “Go shoot yourself and die...
Apr 22nd

An E-mail From Tionna Smalls

Shortly posting this video on Friday, along with some terse commentary thrown in for good measure, I...
Apr 21st
Warch Watch
It has come to my attention that many of my Gawker media employees are whining that their...
Apr 18th

The Changing Web 2.0 Cultural Lexicon

Says David Karp: “I can’t believe Scott Kidder was the first person to use my new...
Apr 18th
Warch Watch
Yes Tionna Smalls, your firing was a direct result of my being “intimidated” by and...
Apr 18th
Trying to decide whether Blakeley looks more like he wants...
Apr 16th

An E-Mail Exchange With Richard Lawson

From: am.lawson@gmail.com To: nickguidodenton@gmail.com Subject: I need to get this off my...
Apr 15th

Caroline Bankoff

Please stop sending nude photos of yourself to my email in a desperate plea for attention. I’m...
Apr 15th
Memo to Boltlung Iron: You see how my former chief...
Apr 15th

Book Club Update

For all of you members, I’ve decided that the selections for my book club’s first month...
Apr 15th
“The thing about glitter is if you get it on you, be prepared...”
— Demetri Martin (via...
Apr 15th

Julia Allison, Reliable Source

While many have expressed shock and indignation over Howard Kurtz having Julia on as a guest on...
Apr 14th

I Can Breathe Again

Now that I have my weekly Sunday night doses of Eva “The Mexican Meryl Streep” Longoria...
Apr 14th
caro: One of the wonderfullest combinations in the world:...
Apr 14th

Introducing Boltlung Iron!

Now that the minor announcements of the day are out of the way, on to the important stuff; Noah...
Apr 14th
Thrillist, you ignorant slut! Don’t you know to never...
Apr 10th

Bitch-Slapped

What didn’t I do to Alex Balk that prevented my inclusion from this list? Was not the...
Apr 10th
The thing that differentiates my shoes from Julia...
Apr 10th
skidder: I aim to please. caro: Kidder looks so happy. It...
Apr 10th

Cia Bernales

A flatmate of mine back at University once said that Filipinos taste like cucumber custard....
Apr 10th

Anticipation

Just wondering how my new paperweight is coming along?
Apr 10th

Quit Bitching Already

I finally get the heat turned on and now some of them are already whining about the lack of...
Apr 10th

Email To Noah Robischon

From: nickguidodenton@gmail.com To: noah@gawker.com Subject: Your name Noah, I’ve given this...
Apr 9th

My Book Club

I’m starting a book club. My initial selections for review are I Was Told There’d Be...
Apr 9th
Warch Watch
Memo to James Del: Chips, nachos, and “Woodies”—AND I WASN’T...
Apr 9th

Traumatic Experiences

You could travel around the world twice with Nicolas Kristof and still not know real pain and...
Apr 9th

I Am So Getting One

Just what I need for the agonizing trek from Crosby St. to Elizabeth St.—A JETPACK!  Scooters...
Apr 8th
A flashback to a simpler time. A time of innocence. A time...
Apr 8th

The Finishing Touch

Oh joy! The kit I ordered from www.makeyourowndildo.com came in today. Now I’ll have just what...
Apr 8th

Noelle Hancock

Poor Noelle. I just had to take her under my wing for a spell. First her employer predictably shits...
Apr 8th

Balderdash!

22nd? Behind Perez and Sullivan?
Apr 8th

Postcard from MY mom. "Subject: Very...

 What’s not to love about Sanford and Son?  alexbalk: “…that if anything happens, you’ll yell...
Apr 7th
“I can make a scene that’s not supposed to be sexy,...
Apr 7th

Memo to Michael Arrington, Briskly...

Had I not just returned from having one of my bi-weekly bowel-draining colonics, it’s possible...
Apr 7th

Fake?

caro: I’m starting to think that Fake Nick Denton is Real Nick Denton.  Seems to be a popular...
Apr 7th
No swinging dick is complete without a couple of plump,...
Apr 4th

My Other April Fool's Day Prank Ideas

Surely you’ve all heard about the rip-roaringly hilarious and totally original April...
Apr 4th

"Straight" Crooners Fucking Gay Gossips

If you thought that John Mayer and Perez Hilton was a big deal, wait until you hear what Howie Day...
Apr 3rd
For once it wasn’t my freakishly enormous head...
Apr 1st

Jordan Golson

In regards to your pay, from here on out you’ll receive five shekels and a goat per thousand...
Apr 1st

Chrissie Lamond

Her not-so-secret crush on the the taint-loving Ray Wert is getting out of hand. Rumor around the...
Apr 1st

Mar

Hypocrisy

It’s not for just evangelical Christians any longer. My labeling Engadget as...
Mar 31st

Help!

Anyone have a suggestion for getting Elmer’s glue out of a white tiger skin rug? I had no idea...
Mar 31st

Rate-A-Cock

Anyone have suggestions on what’s a good website for submitting pictures of your cock for...
Mar 31st

Molly Friedman

What Gaby failed to mention in the email below is that there’s also been a delay in the...
Mar 31st

Scrapbooking

Oh joy! The scrapbooking kit I ordered from scrapbookflair.com came in today. So this weekend, while...
Mar 28th
I find it necessary to wear sunglasses in public at all...
Mar 28th
Warch Watch
I know gay when I see it. That said, this is fucking gay.
Mar 28th
“It’s embarrassing when you accidentally text Nick Denton...”
— Rex Sorgatz, on Twitter...
Mar 25th

Owen Thomas

Doesn’t look half bad for someone who has let himself go.
Mar 25th

Missing Emily Gould

You know what I miss most about Emily? The gnashing of teeth she would incite among the other staff...
Mar 25th

Ben Popken

He caught my eye with his appropriately named blog, The Spunker. On his interview I learned that he...
Mar 24th
Warch Watch
Just your average day at the office, rolling the around the joint on my scooter before getting...
Mar 24th

And it's over.

Stepping out of character for a brief moment in time, I’d never before seen the quote linked...
Mar 19th

Memo To Will Leitch

I’m very pleased with the spike in Deadspin pageviews that this whole “March...
Mar 19th
From Page 87 of my forthcoming book, The Nick Denton Guide...
Mar 17th

NICK DENTON, DINNER???

maryrambin: I have no idea who you are (as a person). You obviously know who I am. So I thought...
Mar 17th

Mind Games

They’re so fun to play, aren’t they? Save for when the mark is so easily led astray....
Mar 14th

In The Event That You're Thinking Of...

Proceed with extreme caution, for it’s a venture fraught with peril. He has the forearms of a...
Mar 14th

Friday Night Doppelganger Party!

So my two doppelgangers (any real new media oligarch worth his salt has not one, but two), Nick...
Mar 14th

Jossip, Queerty, Mollygood, Etc.

A journalist emailed last night to gauge my interest in purchasing these properties. He mentioned...
Mar 14th

Ahem!

Only number 6 on the best ever list? Come on! And once again, what do you mean Fake Nick Denton? 
Mar 13th

Doree Shafrir

I wonder if her being professionally diagnosed with I.B.S, and the subsequent take-home literature...
Mar 13th

Crime And Punishment

In the wake of my coverage of the on-going Emily Gould love triangle saga,along with this comment in...
Mar 13th
Mar 13th

?

cajunboy: i woke up this morning and logged into tumblr to find that there’s already a fake tumblr...
Mar 13th

Jakob Lodwick Disavows His Roommate's...

From: jakob@normative.com To: nickguidodenton@gmail.com Date: Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:48 PM Subject:...
Mar 9th

Jakob Lodwick IM

Me: Hello Jakob. Jakob Lodwick: Hello Mr. Nick Denton.  Me: What are you doing this weekend? Jakob...
Mar 7th
Jakob Lodwick lives with a black man and wants everyone to...
Mar 6th

Question?

Of all my Gawker 2007 alums (Sicha, Gould, Balk, Stein, and Shafrir), which is the least likely to...
Mar 6th

I'm done

juliaallison: I can’t do this anymore.  It’s ruining my life.   Julia, let’s think this...
Mar 6th

What if today were Gawker's last day on...

jakoblodwick: Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and it was gone.Would your life be different, at...
Mar 6th

Uncle Grambo/Mark Graham

Yes, I know, he’s a chronic masturbator and generally just a miserable fuck who perches...
Mar 5th

Oh Joy!

My African elephant tusks just arrived! Should make a fine appurtenance to the albino tiger skin rug...
Mar 5th

Jessica Coen

Little known fact: She can quiff “The Victors,” the University of Michigan’s fight...
Mar 5th

Your Move Arrington

Regarding this, nor would I care to be seated at the same table as he. Julia Allison has gargled his...
Mar 5th

An email to Kaila Hale-Stern

To: kaila@gawker.com From: nickguidodenton@gmail.com Date: March 3, 2008 2:33 PM Subject: These...
Mar 3rd

Shenanigans

Seeing that dastardly fruit Matt Drudge outed the military deployment location of one of the...
Mar 3rd

Feb

Julia Allison's Birthday

If by some off chance you haven’t yet heard, Julia’s birthday is upon us. I’ve...
Feb 28th
Additional commentary is not needed.
Feb 28th

Hunger Pains

I could really go for some Shark Fin soup right now.
Feb 28th

Gigs

Anybody need one? Because I’m flinging around editorial jobs willy-nilly to any bloke whose...
Feb 27th

Chris Mohney

Each night before drifting off to sleep, he douses his loins with canola oil and wanks himself silly...
Feb 27th

Fool's Gold

Is there a more totally adorable on-screen couple than Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey? I think...
Feb 27th

Ana Marie Cox

In case you’re wondering, she’s recuperating just fine in the aftermath of her anal...
Feb 26th

Seriously

I have no earthly idea what I’m doing.
Feb 26th

Maggie Shnayerson

If only she’d have followed up on the anonymous tip I forwarded that revealed Graydon...
Feb 25th

Maura Johnston

Is going to run the Gawker fantasy baseball league and I can hardly wait. Count me in for anything...
Feb 25th

Just A Thought

Occasionally, when I’m sipping cognac while sprawled out across the white tiger skin rug that...
Feb 23rd

A Cowboy

Where can I find a real naked one?
Feb 21st

Good Times

I don’t care what Florida and J.J. say about him, I think that Bookman is kind of cute.
Feb 20th

Brett Richter

I love it when he tells me that my server is memcached.
Feb 20th

Colonoscopy Party At My Place!

Have you been to one yet? They are all the rage! Michael Musto has already RSVPed. In truth, it was...
Feb 20th

Need Beer Money?

In addition to this, I am offering $64.99 for functional kidneys. Payment is also available in...
Feb 20th

Why Bother?

Updating the masthead or formally introducing the new bloggers under my employ? They’ll just...
Feb 19th

Millard Fillmore

Is my favorite President of all time. Have you read the Fugitive Slave Act of 1853? If only a man of...
Feb 19th

Benny Goldman

My favorite little Gizmodo gave me the best compliment over the weekend. He said that my ejaculate...
Feb 19th
Warch Watch
Yes, I also record hit records under the name “Morrissey.”
Feb 16th

Questions About The Jeffersons

Who is this Archie Bunker bloke that George refers to occasionally? And do Jenny and Lionel...
Feb 15th

Brian Lam

As a youth, his family would discipline him by flogging his thighs with eels before shoving a bamboo...
Feb 15th

Mark Lisanti

Were he to reside in New York, I’d be sure to send him off today by hosting a going away party...
Feb 15th

Public Service II

Remember the other day I mentioned that “the smile inside my heart is never wider than when I...
Feb 15th

Jason Calacanis

Drinks the blood of puppies for breakfast.
Feb 15th

I'm Getting A Tattoo!

Since all of the cool bloggers are doing the tattoo thing these days, I’ve decided to get one...
Feb 14th

Email from Arianna Huffington

From: ariannahuf@aol.com To: nickguidodenton@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:31 PM Subject:...
Feb 14th

Still Waiting

To see if a certain someone took the hint.
Feb 14th

Movie Time

Anyone up for seeing The Hottie and the Nottie this weekend?
Feb 14th

Richard Lawson

Was inconsolable upon the death of Charles Nelson Reilly.
Feb 14th

Mr. Bentley

I began viewing the complete first season of The Jeffersons last night. George and Weezie are indeed...
Feb 13th

Choire Sicha

Despite claiming to loathe it, he’s secretly seen Rent 103 times.
Feb 13th

Jory Stiefel

I see you peeking across the desk at Noah out of the corner of your right eye Jory. I see...
Feb 13th

Public Service

The smile inside my heart is never wider than when I see my former editors rolling up their sleeves...
Feb 13th

Hmmm

Pageviews are down. I could really use another unexpected celebrity death to drive them back up...
Feb 12th

I'd like to thank Owen Thomas

For introducing me to the sheer joy and blissful splendor that is a bleached asshole.
Feb 12th

When will it end?

Damn you striking writers! If I don’t get new episodes of Desperate Housewives starring Eva...
Feb 12th

Erin Pettigrew

Could potentially make a straight man out of me.
Feb 12th

Joshua David Stein and Emily Gould

Are the two sanest people I’ve ever had under my employ.
Feb 12th

Jim Lehnhoff