“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!
Okay, TN hivemind. If you’re stung that I’m using this design, now’s the time to buzz about it. (Sorry.) (…Not sorry, even a little.)
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, …
I like it. It’s clean and easy to use.
I like it. What’s it for?
@Dayna – Thank you! I’ve been wondering, but thought I was the only one who didn’t know.
So, what’s up, Sars?
I feel that keeping calm and eating a bee are mutually exclusive activities.
I have eaten a bee. Not intentionally, either. I was running, the bee was in my path and . . . down the hatch.
“Calm” does not describe the state I was in when I ate the bee.
I am also curious about this cryptic message!
I’m with Lori and Clover:
… What?????!!!!
“Eat a bee”/”Eat a bowl of bees” has become Tomato Nation parlance for “Go jump in a lake”/”Go fuck yourself.” In addition, something that “eats a bowl of bees” is something that sucks and can go fuck itself.
I like it! At first my reaction was kind of like Lori’s–that keeping calm and eating a bee seem mutually exclusive. But then when I thought more about what eating a bee really means, I came around. There’s something extra “fuck you” about saying, essentially, “*Keep calm* and go fuck yourself.” Sign me up for a shirt!