This is an occasional column by one of the authors of The Underminer, Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. The Underminer encourages you to slow down!

This is an occasional column by one of the authors of The Underminer, Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. The Underminer is brave, brilliant, and wittier than you will ever be.

This is an occasional column by one of the authors of The Underminer, Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. Did you know that some people on Facebook are better than others? It's true! But it's okay, your "friends" still like you! Just keep poking away at them.

This is an occasional column by one of the authors of The Underminer, Or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. This time around, we learn that the only thing cooler than going to Art Basel is Xmas in NoLa with Brad and Ange.

This is a column by one of the authors of The Underminer: or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. Today: isn't the WGA strike a good opportunity to deepen your yoga practice?

In this occasional column, we learn what's the haps with the best friend who casually destroys your life. The Underminer has a new address, and it's on the Fingerstraße!

This is an occasional column by one of the authors of The Underminer, or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. In this installment, the Underminer has taken up graphic design!

In this occasional column, one of the authors of The Underminer or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life refracts the news of the day through a bile-green lens. This week: the New Yorker Festival and also Internet pervs!

This is an occasional column from one of the writers of The Underminer, or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. His byline is everywhere these days! But, I mean, who really wants to write for those crass mainstream publications that still pay their writers well, anyway?

This is an occasional column from one of the authors of The Underminer: or, The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life. That's right, a book! Weren't you working on one of those? Whatever happened with that?

Mike Albo, our Gawker Underminer columnist, writes the Times' Critical Shopper column today: "I guess I was enchanted by A.P.C. But at some point, I began to feel a little imprisoned, too. Not necessarily by the lovely clothes, but by our entire era of perfect fits and meticulous hipness. Part of me wanted to just get naked and wrap myself up in the burlap curtain and scream." Mike. Honey. Is everything okay? Oh, no reason. You just seem kind of... not-okay. You know? No, I mean of course you look fine! Better than fine! Decent, even! It's just that it kind of seems like writing the Critical Shopper column is making you sort of... how do I put this. Crazy! Ha, you are so crazy! Seriously, though, you're crazy. Maybe seek help.

This is a column by one of the authors of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, who is still, unbelievably, still at Yaddo, which he has taken to calling "Yads."

This is a column by one of the authors of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, who is (still) tweedling away his days up at Yaddo right now, by the way. Are you?

This is a column by one of the authors of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, who is at Yaddo right now by the way. Are you?

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we get visited by the ghost of subtly bad friendship past and future. Maybe your underminer is a lover, or a friend, or a yoga teacher, or an employee! Maybe it's us!

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. It's an enduringly funny joke—but ultimately, the joke is on the Underminer, don't you think? S/he's the one who's really so obsessed with status and validation. Once you begin to pity the underminer, you can never really be undermined again. Ohhhmm shanti.

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. That's right, The Underminer has a Gawker column now. But keep trying! You'll get one someday! You trouper!

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. That's right, The Underminer has a Gawker column now. But keep trying! You'll get one someday! You trouper!

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. That's right, The Underminer has a Gawker column now. But keep trying! You'll get one someday! You trouper!

Excuse me, can you tell me where I can find the top hats—

Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. That's right, The Underminer has a Gawker column now. But keep trying! You'll get one someday! You trouper!