“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!
Gunn and Grann return for another shot at group-reading glory, along with Scientologists, my baseball grandpa, and “incon-thee-vable!”‘s brother. Pick us a good one! Poll’s open until next week.
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Thanks to Reader Gretchen, I have more Bob Uecker-iana than some Brewers fans: multiple bobbles, a Uecker Magic 8 Ball, and an old-school alarm clock that ticks so loudly I had to banish it from …
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
Pizza, TV, a lunatic Frenchman in ballet slippers, and a makeshift cake. “Welcome Back,” indeed.
Dear Sars,
I was surprised and delighted to learn that there’s new Vine material when I checked in recently for the annual 9/11 essay. Yay! I used to LIVE for Vine day. You have no idea. …
Oh man…..I promise you the Buck O’Neil book is a great, great book. Pick that one!
Awww. Buck. And if anyone’s going to write about him well, it’s Posnanski. I miss his columns quite a bit. Lost City of Z was great as well.
So many good choices this time! I wish I could have picked more than three.
Ooohh, lots of good ones. It looks like we’re never going tubing down the Amazon, though.
I’ve read Gunn’s golden rules – it is adorable, and SO quotable.
Hee hee! I managed to pick the top three. Looks like my interests have good company.
I don’t much go for read-alongs, one way or the other, but I watch your lists of possibilities and pick up some of the suggested titles. I got the Kindle edition of Gunn’s Golden Rules, and I am finding it very funny and very true. I know next to nothing about the fashion industry, but enough of the names he talks about are familiar just from general news and TV-watching. Gunn’s style of writing is very down-to-earth, and his wit is absolutely wicked. And his advice about living is good solid sense.