“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!
You guys: Amanda, Intern of Mystery and Verse is really very awesome. She’s built a searchable/sortable spreadsheet of all current projects: sort by state, grade level, expiration, whatever you want, AND there’s a FAQ!
I’ll …
Today’s mini-prize is brought to us by a generous group of peeps at KivaFriends.org. (In case you haven’t heard about Kiva, it’s a micro-finance lending site that works along lines similar to Donors Choose’s …
It’s 9 AM; we’re at $31,774. It’s a long, steep hill we’ve got to left to climb, but it’s less than halfway to a mystery match at 60K. Tell a friend. Mention …
Reader Trip gets Ken Jennings to link to the contest — yay!
I am, I suspect, now equated with furries in Jennings’s mind — ew!
If it gets more donations in the door, who cares — whee! …
Flash Forward. In the DVR timeslot face-off with The Vampire Diaries, this lost….Yeah, I know. Cool premise; irritating execution, for two reasons.The first: Sonya Walger.I just can’t care.
The second: The idea that this happened …
Anyone donating to one of the U.S. history/geography projects listed below is eligible to win Lost In America or Fandango on DVD. Two great road-trip movies (of sorts), one of which cuts through Vegas! …
Welcome to Week 2! $27,312 right now. All hail the weekend warriors of awesome.
As you have probably gleaned from reading the comments lately, Tomato Nation has an intern. The Mystery Intern has tired …
…but not for mini-prizing! “Social Activists in Training” expires today; anyone donating to that project and forwarding me their receipt by 11:59 PM ET today can win a Mrs. Potatohead. (The email is …
Hello, friends! As of this writing, $21,625. Not bad for the weekend!
Let’s keep it going with a mini-prize: a Grow-A-Tree kit. C’mahhhhn: it’s a whole tree! In a little box the …
Mr. K posted the “Hands-On Geometric Origami” project — one of the several dozen we’ve already funded. I really liked Mr. K’s creative approach to his subject, and he’s quite a prompt thank-you-note writer …