What are the best/your favorite Gawker blog posts of all time?

This is a good exercise:

what are your favorite blog posts of all time? not essays, not "longreads," but just straight-up BLOGGING. it's ok to nominate yourself!

— Emily Gould (@EmilyGould) October 9, 2014

This is a question I have been meaning to ask to Disputations for a while. Mostly we can all rattle off the BIGGEST Gawker stories, but they tend to be news-breaking scoops or #longreads.

The thing is, the vast majority of the best writing any of us have done has come in regular old 500-word blog posts it took us a couple hours to write, and we should have a nice treasury of Great Gawker Blog Posts for modeling/inspiration.

Here are three posts nominated in Emily's thread:

I asked Hamilton to put a list together a few weeks ago; this is what he sent:

Lawson's recaps:

http://gawker.com/5822210/real-h…

Pareene:

Balk on The Onion:

Jess Coen burning bridge on last day:

John Cook:

Awesome Choire NYC history post: