Papa John's Pizza Is the Best Pizza in Chicago
If you’ve ever been to Chicago, chances are you’ve been dragged to a “local joint” to get that “famous Chicago pizza.” Here is the thing though: Chicago pizza actually sucks and is bad.
Lawyer for Santa Accused of Public Handjob Demands Article Be Yanked
Following yesterday's post about a SantaCon Santa who was allegedly caught by a filmmaker having his North Pole publicly waxed by a naughty little elf, Gawker received an "urgent" email from a man claiming to be Santa's lawyer.
Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker
After we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general—we thought we might hear from the good folks at Mitt Romney's former…
National Geographic's Take Your Child to Work Day Was More Fun Than Yours
Earlier today, we speculated that one of the few Take Your Child to Work Day jobs that children would enjoy would be National Geographic's swashbuckling Explorer-in-Residence job. Apparently Nat Geo jobs aren't the only paradisiacal thing—at this year's TKCTW celebration, they auctioned an iPad. A reader writes in,
How to Get Your Letter to the President
Here is a good, interesting story in the Washington Post about the people who write to Barack Obama, why they write, and the process by which some of their letters reach the president. It is heart-warming and kinda sad, too.
You People Really Want to Be the Next Will & Grace, Apparently
Last week we posted a casting notice for a real-life Will & Grace reality show, even though we didn't think that any gay readers or their straight-girl besties would actually want to be on such a program. We were wrong.
Who's Crazier: Palin-ites or Scientologists?
The two topics that have garnered us the most spittle-flecked emails lately have been Sarah Palin and Scientology. We've picked a selection of the finest, juiciest nuts so you can judge for yourself which group is more rabid.
"I see you're already living in your little comfortable Communist world where freedom of speech in sensored"
We don't know what this letter was even about (Glenn Beck probably?), but because we do not wish to Stifle Free Speech, like they do in North Korea, we will publish it.
NY Observer Letter-Writer's Innovative Ideas About Print, Horses, Jared Kushner, And The Jews
Every publication enjoys the "pleasure" of hearing from their readerships often, but especially from crazies, who love to write in. Today, someone's helpful ideas for the beleaguered, layoff-happy New York Observer, involving Jews, horses, and the "Heroic Destiny Squad."
Times Prints Hoax Anti-Kennedy Email From Famous Frog
The mayor of Paris actually doesn't care if Caroline Kennedy becomes a Senator, the Times has been forced to reveal. Also if you email them with a famous name they'll just print it.
On The Internet, Everyone Knows You Want to Kill Them
It's a fact of life on the internet that when you are mentioned (and linked to) unfavorably by certain high traffic right-wing bloggers, you promptly start receiving some of the most remarkable hate mail you've ever seen. It begins immediately, peaks overnight, and continues usually for about 72 hours or so. Then…
A Mother Responds to Palin Emailgate
Here is one of the many charming emails your editors have received since we
reposted some emails that were hacked and originally posted by Anonymous earlier today, and then Now the "bloggers post their hate mail so you can point and laugh" routine is dead tired, but this one invokes your day editor's mom! "You…
From the Mailbag
"Never hit your site before. Man are you people really screwed up." Screwed up like a fox!
Dr. Pink: Gynecologist, Comedian
"Celebrity gynecologist and stand-up comic has been hired by GAWKER to blog about everything from vaginas to videos," begins the email we received a short time ago from a Dr. Rand Pink. He touts himself as a celebrity gynecologist comedian, and claims that his "uncanny search for the truth is appealing to most…
From the Mailbag
A reader concisely reviews Madonna's new album: "If you haven't heard Madonna's new album (which dropped today) I cannot express to you how awful it is. It sounds like a tranny got to let loose with the help of her Casio. Usually there are a few decent tracks on her albums. The last one was bad, but had a few good…
Subject: horror salad
Gawker,
A woman standing in line in front of me at Hale & Hearty salads just ordered the single most disgusting combination of ingredients imaginable: peas, beets, hard boiled egg, chicken (egg & chicken together! horror!), goat cheese, raisins, garbanzo beans.
Please let your readers and fellow salad eaters know…
Your Letters Of Support Continue To Pour In
Thanks, Debra, for your encouraging words! We shall continue flogging the Cruise thing to our herat's content. [Previously, idem]
Cruise Crazy-Gate: The People Respond
Subject: TOM CRUISE?
To: tips@gawker.com
I'm the wife of a united states soldier. I have watched T. Cruise for some time now .I'm no Dr. so someone should tell Katie,run,run as fast as you can.T.Crui se needs to be in Afghanistan under my husband.He would either come down to this earth or Ft.levenwort.hI thank you so…
Alphabet City Unsafe For "Rich Girls And Bankers"!
From the mailbag: "some girl just had her purse stolen outside my window on 11th and A at 12:30am. there are so many loud teens in this neighborhood and drunk people at this time of night when she was screaming 'give it back fucker!' i didn't think anything of it until i looked out the window and realized what had…
A Letter From The Epstein Accuser's Lawyer
When we informed you yesterday of the lawsuit against the New York Post brought by Maximilia Cordero—the woman who might have been born a man (but she says not!) and who might have been raped by "billionaire financier" Jeffrey Epstein when she was underage—we apparently made some mistakes, according to her lawyer and…
