“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!
I’d love help finding two books, one for myself and one for a friend. Friend’s is a children’s book about a hunter who shoots the tail off a swamp monster and eats the tail. He …
My boyfriend of two years has four cats. He has three of them for almost 12 years and the youngest for four. These are his first pets (we’re both in our late 30s) as he …
It’s naïve to expect anything in the way of nuanced criticism from The Brooklyn Paper, but the unlubricated Andy Rooneying to which it subjected Work of Art on the front page of the rag’s arts …
Our next book, by a hair, is Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting It Right. I tremble to think of all the words I’m about to find out I’ve been using …
Hi Sars,
I have a song question for you and the readers. I’m in Baltimore and spend most of my radio time listening to WTMD, which is a local university’s radio station. They play a lot …
Above: The artist formerly known as “the foster cat” supervises yet another productive day at TN HQ.
October draws nigh, so it’s time for an update on the annual Tomato Nation/Donors Choose fund drive, as well …
Dear Sars,
I am writing because I find myself increasingly…angry. I live in London and have done so for almost ten years. Because of my family situation, I won’t be leaving the city any time soon.
I …
I should have dumped RHoNJ when Dina Manzo did. Dina’s stated reasons had the whiff of bullshit — “I thought it would be a cute, funny look at our family,” or whatever she said at …
I stood in front of the DVD player for a good ninety seconds, staring at Strange Frequency‘s Netflix sleeve and wondering why in the name of beer and skittles I had put an Erik Palladino …
