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The Princess and the Trolls: The Heartrending Legend of Adalia Rose, the Most Reviled Six-Year-Old Girl on the Internet

Like many things of great consequence, it all started with "Ice Ice Baby." Adalia Rose Williams, at the age of five years, made a video of herself dancing to the Vanilla Ice hit, and the dancing…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8101 words)

Don’t Be a Stranger

image by imp kerr Social media keep old friends close, but the Web used to be for strangers The Internet of 2006 was not much different than it is today, mainly less: a bit slower, sparser, less open…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2775 words)

The Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012 Longreads

Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss.…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1378 words)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)

John Joseph Scocca, 1940-2012

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Churchville, Maryland, May 15, 2012 My father, John Scocca, used to tell me something. The usual thing to do at a time like this is to quote the wisdom of the departed.…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1550 words)

The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History

Sometime in the late 20th century a naked man bent over, spread his ass and took a picture. Eventually that picture, known as Goatse, became one of the most venerable memes in internet history. Who…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4056 words)

One Woman's Ordeal with Texas' New Sonogram Law

Halfway through my pregnancy, I learned that my baby was ill. Profoundly so. My doctor gave us the news kindly, but still, my husband and I weren’t prepared. Just a few minutes earlier,…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2210 words)

The Two-Fisted, One-Eyed Misadventures Of Sportswriting’s Last Badass

George Kimball hung upside down some 70 feet in the cold Manhattan air, still in need of a cigarette. Well, the doctors had said smoking would kill him, hadn't they? The previous autumn, they had…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5160 words)
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