“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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Discovered after the war, the unfinished work, with no soundtrack, quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record, despite its elaborate propagandistic construction. The later discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings, …
Dear Sars,
My partner and I wouldn’t win any awards for housekeeping, but our house is clean enough — it’s not filthy, unhygienic, or unsafe. We’re not going to be ambushed on any house-cleaning reality shows …
To date, I’ve only seen one season of The Bachelor — the one I recapped for TWoP, which happened to feature Brad Womack and his “horrible” “rejection” of two women he barely knew and did …
I have a mildly antagonistic relationship with my BlackBerry — I name all the significant inanimate objects in my life; this one’s called “the Dingle,” so there you go — but I admit that I …
New year, new batch of books to choose from! David Foster Wallace finally got his moment last time, but there’s another Wallace-adjacent book in the poll this time around, we’ve got a couple of true-crime-ish …
I’m hoping your readers can help me find a video clip I’m looking for. Unfortunately, this all happened before YouTube (say 1999 to 2005-ish), or I’m sure it would be everywhere.
Years ago, my sister …
If you thought I’d forgotten all about the TN Fall Classic, well, I’ve got news for you: I…kind of did. Okay, not really, but other things (the studio, the N Candy AA, the painting project …
Two weeks ago, my fiancé, J, went to sleep and didn’t wake up the next day. He was 31 years old, generally healthy, and we still don’t know exactly what happened. We are waiting for …
The Movie: Backdraft
The Crush Object: Kurt Russell
The Story: The Netflix plot summary pretty much covers it: “[Firefighter] brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey (William Baldwin and Kurt Russell) are battling each other over past slights while …
Many odious aspects of the holidays entered…one left. And that one, with 35% of the vote in our final poll, is: “The alleged ‘War on Christmas’ annually fabricated by conservatives”!
Thanks so much for participating in …