Hello –
I guess I am writing because I am hoping to get some tips in how to best handle my relationship with my parents. A brief (I hope) background: I am an only child and …
“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Perfection is boring. Oh my God, it's the dullest thing in the world. Stop trying to achieve it, now. (179)
I tend to avoid books like Backwards in High Heels, assuming that tired passive-aggression about socks on the floor, followed by weak jokes about the medicinal properties of chocolate, will rule the day. I had higher hopes for BiHH, thinking its Britishness would edge it up a bit, and despite its semi-tiresome tendency to prescribe, yes, chocolate and red wine for various ills, I enjoyed the book and can report with relief that it only strayed into International Coffees territory a few times.
Dear Sars,
Almost 4 years ago now, I met "Steve" through a work project that our two companies were collaborating on. The project required us to work very closely together (emailing and talking on the phone …
I'm not even sure this is a book, but I figured the TN universe might have someone who remembers it too. I recently read Cyteen and while doing so, had intense déjà vu of a …
Dear Sars,
I've been searching the web for help on this problem and I couldn't find anything on this topic: Pressure to defriend someone on a social networking website.
A year ago I dated "Albert," who …
Roberto Kelly was up in the bottom of the fourth against Detroit when a murmur began circling through Yankee Stadium. The scoreboard read: July 30, 1990, 8:26 P.M. The murmur built steadily, and suddenly a …
"Shut Up, Penhall" Count: 1
We open with a much-too-long nighttime sequence in which a Kirk-Cameron-esque kid named Dylan tries every door of Artie's Deli. He finally gains access to find his little friend Jordy …
My opinion of Jim Morrison is not a secret, but in case you've just arrived on Tomato Nation: hate. Morrison's poet-shaman-of-the-bacchanal persona comes off to me as just that — a persona, sophomoric, obvious, contrived. …
Hello Sars and TN!
After posting for a couple of years in the comments, I too have to tap the mighty organic computer brain that is the Nation for help with a couple of books that …
Henry James crisis averted! Our next read-along book is Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female, by Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine. Not Kindleable this time, but a used copy is about …
Hi Sars! To cut directly to the chase (so to speak):
About four years ago at age 28, I started running, basically from scratch (although active, I was unfit and overweight and could only run for …
I have a piece forming at the horizon of my mind, like a cloud that intends hail, about the tiresome undimensional treatment of the widow/er in contemporary Hollywood product, but it will have to wait …
