“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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Dear Sars,
I’m looking for a book I read as a kid or perhaps a teenager. It was about a boy who ran away from home and took up residence in an abandoned train station. I …
Hi Sars,
I know that I am not the only one out there grappling with the awkwardness of losing colleagues to layoffs and “workforce reductions” right now but I haven’t been able to find a good …
I thought, at this late date, that I’d heard pretty much every meow the cats had to offer. Aggrieved “yes, there’s kibble in my bowl, but you have to come watch me eat it” wail? …
Reader Scicurious asked me to pass word along of a blogosphere initiative to raise awareness of, and funds to fight, continuing sexual violence in Liberia.
To learn more and/or get involved via your own blog, visit …
Hi Sars,
My new downstairs neighbors smoke and I’m very sensitive to it. In addition, the building I live in is VERY dusty. Therefore, I’m interested in purchasing an air purifier of some kind — but …
It starts out well.Author Rudy Marzano cuts straight to correcting misconceptions and debunking myths about the Dodgers and their fans, and the tone has a very faint sour top note — a whiff of simultaneous …
About fifteen years ago, my parents split up. They did not divorce and I’ve never really asked why. About a decade ago my dad moved in with a woman I think of as my stepmother.
My …
Welcome, new/temporary readers coming in from Kottke.org. (And any other new readers, of course.) Happy to have you, and hear your comments. New readers and longtime companions, don’t forget to have a …
I moved, I went to California for a week, and I’ve only just now started digging my way out from under a pile of season finales. And I have some questions. Answer them for me, …
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Hi!
I asked a question on Ask Metafilter when it stumped people, one of your readers suggested I send a note to you.I’m looking for a book of short-story mysteries that I read sometime back in …