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: 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 …

Contest: Well, That Happened
October 27, 2009 · 124 Comments

(tm State and Main)
From Candice, our HP-ologist:
Actually, that is no mistake! :) We ran the percentages of Giving Page totals against the support that HP is providing to Social Media Challenge donors and Tomato Nation’s …

Contest: Mini-Prize Hoedown!
October 27, 2009 · 42 Comments

Your mission today — during which we survey our domain from a lofty peak of $133,805 — is to knock off a few November-expiration projects before HP hands out those giving cards.   Not sure …

Contest: TN + HP = Aw.
October 26, 2009 · 35 Comments

(And “awe.”   And “some.”)
(…YOU GUYS.)
(eeee!)
So, anyone want to know what’s going on with the HP match? I thought so.   My new friend Candice at DCHQ broke it down for me earlier today, as …

Contest: Perchance to dream
October 26, 2009 · 9 Comments

As of this writing, $130,566 in the Bet Red bank and $300,071 overall. That looks like a 43.5-ish percentage to me.
More information to come when I have it — not sure how the HP match …

Contest: Master Tomatohead
October 25, 2009 · 43 Comments
Contest: Master Tomatohead

Harder than it looked to execute, given Squirmy McGiggleton’s interesting in teething on the tomato leaf, but: baby in tomato, as promised.

Contest: Sunday drive
October 25, 2009 · 43 Comments

$118,266. That’ll teach me to sleep in during the contest.
Please see the below entry for this weekend’s fabulous prizes, and why we need to raise a shit-ton of money by tonight so that HP can …

Contest: Saturday Night Special (and all day too)
October 24, 2009 · 31 Comments

Good morning, friends!   $113,146! Enjoying some cartoon/cereal/pajama time?   “Enjoying” some errands?   Yeah, me too.   Headed to the post office in a sec to send out a bunch of prizes to you, …

Contest: 5(K) Is Alive!
October 23, 2009 · 39 Comments
Contest: 5(K) Is Alive!

Marvelous news on the match front!   Asirda is as psyched about the HP percentage drive as you guys — so if you can get to $120,000 by 10 PM ET on Sunday, Asirda will …

The Vine: October 23, 2009
October 23, 2009 · 6 Comments

Hey, Sars. I’m looking for a young-adult book that probably came out in the mid- to late ’80s.I remember very little about the book, but the details, I think, should stand out to anyone who’s …