Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

Contest: Dealt
November 1, 2009 · 29 Comments

$314,158.   1,120 donors.   51,507 students reached.
And it’s my mom’s birthday!   Aw.   Put your feet up, Nation; we’re done here.   (Until the giving cards arrive.)

Contest: Thanking HP
October 31, 2009 · 16 Comments

Would you like to thank HP for helping us to reach our goal?   So would I.   Candice recommends doing the following:

Our contact at HP suggests that readers contact CEO Mark Hurd via the …

Contest: The Halloween Heist
October 31, 2009 · 39 Comments

In previous years, when I’d tell someone our fundraising goal for October — at a cocktail party, say, or while arranging a match with $ and the Mysterians — that someone would always say something …

The Vine: October 30, 2009
October 30, 2009 · 26 Comments

Dear Sars,
As a longtime reader, at long last, I have a question that I’m desperately hoping can benefit from the wide-ranging good taste of the TN readership.And my question is: bath towels.Where do I find …

Contest: Welcome to Matchdome
October 30, 2009 · 93 Comments
Contest: Welcome to Matchdome

…Okay, proud Nation.   It’s the 30th.   $275,660 right now; 1,068 of you have given to 44,801 students in the last 30 days.
Others of you have given prizes; shared and forwarded and cheerled; watched …

The Vine: October 29, 2009
October 29, 2009 · 26 Comments

Sars,
I’m an intern in my state’s legislature. My boss is a progressive, feminist woman; however, one of the staffers in her office (and thus my superior) is a guy, and a somewhat misogynistic guy at …

Contest: Ocean’s 300K
October 29, 2009 · 31 Comments
Contest: Ocean’s 300K

…Well, well, well.   $271,888. Five grand in a day.   It’s a pleasure working with you.
Just a little more work left to do: keep in mind, reaching 280K by Saturday at 5 PM qualifies …

Reading: Wednesday 28 October (tonight!)
October 28, 2009 · No Comment

Come see me read at “How I Learned,” hosted by Blaise K — the month’s theme is “How I Learned What Everybody Else Already Knew.”   Not sure what I’ll be talking about yet, but …

Contest: The Final Countdown
October 28, 2009 · 35 Comments
Contest: The Final Countdown

Head-banging synchronized with synthesizer chords compliments of Europe.   $266,851 compliments of Tomato Nation, Asirda, HP, Jenn and Wiley, and $ and His Mysterians.
And like the little green Jedi once said…there is another.
A gentleman …

Contest: Warm and fuzzy feelings
October 27, 2009 · 24 Comments
Contest: Warm and fuzzy feelings

UPDATED WITH MORE PRIZE-AGE.   SCROLL DOWN.
Good morning, friends.   What’s up?   Ohhhh right, of course.   $131,137 raised; 953 donors (welcome, first-timers!); and 40,422 students reached.
Hell of a weekend at sea.
In case you …