Last night we invited some of our readers (along with some Deadspin and Jalopnik devotees) up to our roof deck for a full on Oktoberfest celebration, sponsored by Beck's beer. There was an oompa band and various German-style foods and lots and lots of beer. We got to meet some great commenters and readers and get drunk and feel culturally enlightened about Germanic culture! Nick McGlynn, of Random Night Out and our video team, was on hand to document the stein-swilling, polka-dancing, chilly (it was cold!) debauchery. A video of the proceedings and a photo gallery are after the jump.

Hello beer lovers (which hopefully means all of you)! Gawker and one of our fantastic sponsors, Beck's Beer, are throwing a little Oktoberfest party next week, and we'd like to see you there. We're calling it, um, Gawktoberfest, it's on Gawker HQ's roof deck, and it runs from 7-10pm next Thursday, 10/23. We'd love for all of you to come, of course, but the space can only hold so many people. So we have to limit the number to 100 folks. We're trying to be as fair as possible about who gets to come to this epic event (free food and beer!), so if you're interested, fill out the form after the jump before this Friday at noon and we'll select 100 (+1) people (who are over 21) at random from that list and notify them via email on Friday afternoon. Beck's Beer Presents: Gawktoberfest Gawker HQ Roof Date: 10/23 7 - 10 PM Food and Beck's Beer will be provided Note: By filling out our form readers will be opting-in to Beck's Key Club. As always, standard contest rules apply.

How very, very wrong we were to dismiss insanely prolific celebrity biographer Andrew Morton's "Posh and Becks" out of hand! It turns out that the book contains a trenchant critique, not only of the current celeb-industrial complex, but of the bedrock of the global economy! And also it contains some of the most hideous cliche-stacks ever printed on paper.