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You People Should Be Ashamed of Yourselves

Richard Lawson · 03/13/09 01:32PM

The most cathartic part of our week is here. We have to read all the awful unapproved comments all week. You don't. Well, you didn't. Now you have to read six of the worst:

Start Walkin', the Mexican Border Is South

Richard Lawson · 03/06/09 05:33PM

Every week we get lots of comments, some of which we just can't let through. Because they're dumb or silly or, usually, crazy. Here are our favorite lost voices from this week.

Live Blogging Top Chef: The Reunion Show

MisterHippity · 03/04/09 08:00PM

A week has passed since the commenter gang gathered to live-gab the season finale of our favorite foodfight. Thought you'd seen the last this little live-blogging luau (and my hyper-alliterative prose), didn't you?

Live Blogging Top Chef: The Final Episode

MisterHippity · 02/25/09 09:00PM

Mardi Gras is over in New Orleans, but that doesn't mean we can't keep partying on the streets of cyberspace. Is everyone ready for our season-ending live blog blowout? Laissez le blog en direct rouler!*

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 13

MisterHippity · 02/18/09 09:00PM

Hello America, how are ya? Like the train in Arlo's song, Top Chef is bound for the city of New Orleans — and starting tonight, we have just two episodes left to live-blog about it.

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 12

MisterHippity · 02/11/09 09:00PM

Hello Top Chef lovers, wherever you are! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, why not join us in posting a few hundred sweet nothings to the reality-show object of our viewing affections?

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 11

MisterHippity · 02/04/09 09:00PM

We're down to the final six, the end's racing toward us like a runaway shopping cart, and our live-blogging routine has become as warm and comfy as a favorite shirt fresh from the dryer.

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 10

Ryan Tate · 01/28/09 09:00PM

Hello commenters! How are we all feeling tonight? Who feels like a hummingbird on cocaine? Raise your hands.

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 9

MisterHippity · 01/21/09 09:00PM

Ready for a new, more hopeful era of live-blogging? I sure am. I've been watching two days of inauguration stuff, and suddenly I'm hopeful about everything.

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 8

Ryan Tate · 01/14/09 09:21PM

My fellow Americans (and other fellow travelers of cyberspace), it occurs to me that we stand at the threshold of an historic transition: This will be the last Gawker live blog of the Dubya era. (Heckuva job, Clownie!) When next we meet, a presidential upgrade will have been completed. This got me thinking — is there nothing We The People can't improve on, if we just set our minds to it? I say: No there isn't. What about lame reality-show catchphrases — can we improve on those? I say: Yes we can!

Meet the Haters Tina Fey Told Off

Ryan Tate · 01/12/09 02:26AM

Those anonymous internet critics Tina Fey told to "suck it" in her Golden Globe acceptance speech tonight are actual posters on the LA Times' Envelope awards site. And mean!

Golden Globes: Live Winners

Ryan Tate · 01/11/09 08:08PM

The 66th annual Golden Globe awards are underway in Beverly Hills. We'll update the list of nominations below with winners as they come in; your comments are encouraged in the threads below.

Couple Who Met Through Gawker Commenting Get Engaged

Richard Lawson · 01/11/09 12:45PM

The winter may be bleak and cold, but at least we have this story to warm our hearts. We've had our first Gawker Commenter engagement! Well, OK, he was a Deadspin commenter. But still!

Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 7

MisterHippity · 01/07/09 09:00PM

Welcome back, fellow Top Chef live-bloggers! In the three weeks since we last gathered, a holiday season has come and gone, and a shiny new year has dawned.