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Each week, a reader comment per day is selected for inclusion and veneration in the Gold Star Motel. Standards of excellence are arbitrary, fluid, and contradictory. The reward is strictly honorary (at best). This week:

Re: Bloggers! Live! Talking!
• smash irony! - "Fucking visionary. Back in the salad days of Crossfire / McNeil Lehrer /(pick one), I often found myself thinking 'this is great, but if they could just lower the production value and bring in uglier people were fewer credentials and cheaper clothes, they might just have a goddamn phenomenon on their hands.'"

Re: 'Post:' Tinsley Mortimer, Ardent Socialist
• GaryGnu - "I think she's confusing Japanese people with Sanrio's stable of Hello Kitty characters."

Re: We're Sorry, Yara Flinn!
• ConnPossible - "Nice. That was like 'douchebag nominee entrapment'."

Re: TODO: Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'
• powder - "I'm not sure if I'm ready for a world in which Gawker is earnestly recommending stuff."

Re: David Patrick Columbia Mumbles Something About Lemonade and Soup
• Alfonso X. Alfonse - "True. Everyone did indeed have the drippy clap. But at least they built concert halls!"

And this week, an extra-special night in the Gold Star Motel for Valleywag:

Re: Hypocrisy alert
• Rocco Siffredi - "Denton, Krucoff last seen renting fireman outfit. Be very afraid."

Earlier: Batali Salami