“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!
In case you haven’t seen this already because you set your spam filters to chuck emails from MoveOn — as many of us have; they’re kinda chatty — you can play a tomato-toss game on their site. Throw tomatoes at AIG, and by doing so sign an online petition to demand the return of the AIG bonus money.
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
Do they also have an effigy of Tim Geithner that we can burn? That would be about as effective and much more fun.
According to CNN, 15 out of the 20 AIG executives who were given bonuses are giving the money back. Apparently Anderson Cooper’s show tonight will have the details on that.
Yeah, because this all started on January 20.
On the subject of tomatoes, I saw this shirt on threadless and thought you might enjoy it.
“You Say Tomato, I Say Lycopersicon esculentum”
http://www.typetees.com/product/1723/You_say_tomato_I_say_Lycopersicon_esculentum
Heh. Vivat Nationem Lycopersiconis esculentorum!