“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.
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Camera and editing by Mr. Stupidhead; fund-raising by you fantastic people.
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a lonely girl in possession of a library card must be in want of a twin. The child who spends a lot of time in books also spends …
Hey. I don’t know what we do now either. I DO know that we’ll need each other going forward, as we always have, for support, mutual aid, and information on where to get high-quality wide-calf …
I am in love with this video, had me laughing the entire time.
I think that “Messes with your depth of field” was my favorite. :)
So fun!
Nice Pins!
Hee! “Remembers childhood skeeball triumphs!” I suddenly got very excited that I was gonna watch a giant tomato play skeeball. Maybe next time, eh?
Aw! So nice. (Is it okay that I almost cried?) Just a little dusty in my office, is all.
It’s the American Red Balloon! A classic for our times.
Wow, that total still floors me.
I love your jaunty Tomato walk!
Heh. As you were walking down the hall, I was thinking “has seizure induced by hotel carpet pattern”, so I greatly appreciated the casino carpet comment. But where was the hat?
Another great work of American cinema, Mr. S.!
Kicking the heels at the end got me. Awww!
Also, I love your glasses!
Who did the music?
It’s from the soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I hope they’ll forgive us.
If I had to guess, I think Jon Brion would dig the video and the incredible mood his piece brings to it. Seriously, that was beyond lovely. Also, if you ever have a chance to see Brion perform, do. He’s rather nuts, but puts on a truly incredible show.
Tee hee hee! Adorable, especially the coffee cup! “Yeah, I’m a giant tomato, I needed caffeine. What of it?”
I kept looking at the people around you thinking any minute now someone is going to do a double take at the tomato walking by. But no! Not a one! Maybe, never having been to AC, I underestimated their familiarity with the….tomato-costumed??
In other news, your hair looks fab, Sars!
Am I the only one who got excited and thought there was another person in the hotel’s lobby dressed as a tomato? Just me then, huh?
The Awesome Tomato Nation helped my classroom get an iMac last year in this challenge, and it’s being used every single day by “underprivileged” kids who are excited about learning. I put that in quotes because, honestly, they are lucky to have such wonderful supporters. Thanks, Sarah and readers, for all you do for kids.
My favorite part was when you somehow compressed the tomato so that you wouldn’t bump into the lady you’re walking by.
I have a question, though…
Did you round up the total to $314,158? Did some math nerd donate just enough at the very end to get us there? Did it get there by a random stroke of luck?
(For those that are confused, Pi is 3.14159, which is close enough that it caught my attention. I am a math nerd.)
@Toni: The costume is pretty handy like that. By pulling in at the armholes, I can make it narrow enough to walk among civilians.
I believe I took the total from a post on the last day of the contest last year. The giving page has remained open and I think is probably at around 400K now. Sheer coincidence.
Wow, you look just like a tomato-y Jamie Lee Curtis in A Fish Called Wanda. Like, REALLY. Were you going for that with the haircut & glasse? Can we call you Wanda?