Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

Contest ’09: It’s Coming
September 13, 2009 · 9 Comments

A few things I need before we get started on the ’09 contest:
1. project suggestions
Please send any and all projects for addition to the master list.I can’t promise that I’ll take them all, but I …

When Half Spent Was The Night
September 11, 2009 · 35 Comments
When Half Spent Was The Night

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and known, without moving the curtain to look outside, that it had started snowing? Maybe you’d had a bad or strange dream, or your …

OFD on WNYC
September 11, 2009 · 20 Comments

My spot on this morning’s The Takeaway.   Please share to as many social media outlets as you can — thanks.

Operation Find Don
September 10, 2009 · 156 Comments

I realized after a couple archive searches that this never made it over from the old site. Not sure how much good it will do now — my feeling at this point is that, if …

The Vine: September 9, 2009
September 9, 2009 · 33 Comments

Dear Sars,
Last year, I moved out of state to live with my boyfriend.The move was based on financial necessity; I was recovering from an operation and couldn’t work.The boyfriend (let’s call him Adam) had a …

21 Jump Street: “21 Jump Street, Part 2”
September 5, 2009 · 9 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: “21 Jump Street, Part 2”

Previously on 21 Jump Street: Stealth junkie Kenny Weckerle rumbled with the scenery; Officer Tom Hanson missed his dead non-gay dad, and had no sense of humor about looking young, which got him reassigned to …

The Vine: September 4, 2009
September 4, 2009 · 25 Comments

I’m hoping you can help me out with a movie title.I was a pretty little kid when video rentals first became a thing. There was a store in my town that rented out bootleg, copied …

The Vine: September 2, 2009
September 2, 2009 · 70 Comments

Dear Sars,
I have what I consider to be rather sticky situation. My policy up to this point has been to keep my big mouth shut, but I’m not sure that I shouldn’t say something, so …

OFD goes global
September 2, 2009 · 4 Comments

My appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Americana,” from Sunday, talking about trying to find Don.   The podcast is available via free download on iTunes; I come in at minute 22-ish.
OFD is also a Facebook …

21 Jump Street: “21 Jump Street, Part 1”
September 1, 2009 · 28 Comments
<I>21 Jump Street</I>: “21 Jump Street, Part 1”

Credits.Speaking of credit, I have to give it to the theme song: it’s unpleasant to listen to, and yet it gets stuck in my head every time.
A suburban family, the Weckerles, readies for supper.The dialogue …