I’m looking for a certain pair of shoes that I saw several years ago (I know…it’s going to be difficult to find the exact pair). They look something like this, but they’re not leopard-print; they’re …

Hi Sars,
I’m hoping you or the readers can help me salvage a t-shirt that I like very much but seem to have contaminated. I wore it to work and sweated in it, and now I …

Dear Sars,
This might be a question for the readers! I’ve been thinking for a while about switching to organic shower products, specifically (for the moment) shampoo, conditioner and shower gel/soap. I’ve been googling it and …

Dear Sars:
All right, since your readers do such a great job of identifying stories and such, I’ve got another one — this one’s a TV show. When I was a kid I couldn’t sleep one …

Hi Sars,
I just read the Vine about the roommate with the pooping problem, and I would strongly suggest she visit a doctor to check for intestinal parasites. With her new symptoms of particularly smelly stools, …

Sorry for the paucity of Vines this week; I’ve been putting out fires elsewhere and just haven’t gotten it together. (One of those “fires” is actually something fun: an interview with Jack Coleman, Heroes‘s “HRG,” …

Holly’s incredulity switches to anger as she snaps that Rebecca “could have been in a ditch, or anywhere,” and can I just ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because …

It’s kind of insane to me that anyone is trying to pin the slump in TV ratings on Daylight Savings Time, but evidently this is considered a workable theory. The Wurtzel fellow quoted in the …

Stuff that made me laugh over the last 48 hours:
1. Russian performance art with cats. My favorite part: “A few minutes later police arrived and arrested them together with a few cats as a clue …

Sars,
I have a roommate problem I hope you can help me solve. It’s disgusting, but I thought, given the topics of some of your essays, maybe you wouldn’t automatically delete this.
My roommate Lauren and I …