“House of Cards,” Episodes 1–3: Bloggers With Their Wine

by Jane Hu and Carrie Frye

So God Made a Farmer

by Abe Sauer

And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a…

Iran’s Space Monkey Returned To Earth As Different Monkey

Man Troubled By Inability To Reach Large Audience On Twitter About Television Show

“Netflix made a bold move releasing the full season of House of Cards at midnight, but I think it’s actually a bad one. I like watching shows all at once — when they’re not brand new…

Joan Jett Is Like A Magic Octopus When It Comes To Picking The Winner Of The Superbowl

Winter Wants To Kill You

I hope everybody had a good Super Bowl, and even if you didn’t Observe it, you mighta been able to have a…

God (Or Maybe “Utilities”) Hates Gawker

Last week, Gawker Media’s swank SoHo office had no water. Today, the employees that actually come to the office to work on a Monday morning discovered that they had no Internet. That’s rough, for an Internet company. (BuzzFeed’s internet was also out this…

Online Class of 41,000 Students Collapses Under Its Own Ridiculousness

Knifed Skull Found In English Garbage Belongs To Hunchbacked King

Andre Cassagnes, 1926–2013

Osvaldo Golijov and a Meta-Salon Soothe Your Super Hangover

New York City, February 3, 2013

★★★★ The overnight snow, which had covered everything but the travel lanes of the avenue, was by…

Hot Sauce Gestalt Reveals Bitter Absurdities Of City Life

What with the broad selection of items from which to choose it almost seems too easy to allow an artisanal Brooklyn-made heirloom pepper probiotic hot sauce that was produced via a Kickstarter campaign to cause one to consider…