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!

Tomato Nation Goes To Washington: The Video
April 7, 2009 · 22 Comments

Yes, that guy really did yell, “C’mon, ketchup!”
Thanks to Mr. S for another fine effort in the footage-and-editing department — and of course to all of you for your extraordinary accomplishment.

“Seriously, was anybody editing this thing?”
April 5, 2009 · 32 Comments
“Seriously, was <I>anybody</I> editing this thing?”

The other day, I received an email from reader Todd K in which he crabbed at length about Jeff Pearlman’s new book on Roger Clemens.I had just read in Sports Illustrated‘s baseball preview issue that …

TV Question Qorner: Lymanphobia, MtB goes to college, et al.
April 3, 2009 · 53 Comments
TV Question Qorner: Lymanphobia, <I>MtB</I> goes to college, et al.

CSI. When did it get so tiresome? I don’t think it’s because William Petersen left, but the timing does line up.
The real reason, I suspect, isn’t exactly that one, but it’s related. Between the downward …

The Vine: April 3, 2009
April 3, 2009 · 38 Comments

Sars, I’m hoping that you or the Tomatolings can help me find an unfindable item…
My mother-in-law has had both hips replaced, and last time she came for a visit she asked (politely) if we’d mind …

Meet the new boss
April 2, 2009 · 20 Comments

Please head on over to my day job: the new blog at wenn.com, which formally launches today.   Get your fill of celebrity snark, and feel free to tip us on your celeb sightings and/or …

The Vine: April 1, 2009
April 1, 2009 · 36 Comments

Dear Sars,
I want to end a friendship without creating any animosity or ill feelings.I have been friends outside of work with someone I work fairly closely with, both in physical proximity and a lot of …

“Mad World”
April 1, 2009 · 6 Comments

New 90210 recap up at Soapnet:

Silver needs to be alone for a while, too — in a padded room, because girlfriend has all-caps LOST IT. She and Dixon have taken their relationship to a somewhat …

TV Question Qorner: America’s Next Top Plimpton, clowns hold YSL hostage, and more
March 30, 2009 · 23 Comments
TV Question Qorner: <I>America’s Next Top Plimpton</I>, clowns hold YSL hostage, and more

Making the Band 4. I have a lot of questions, most of them concerning that hottest-of-messes white fur vest Diddy keeps showing up in. The man is a style icon; that is a fugly garment …

The Vine: March 25, 2009
March 25, 2009 · 17 Comments

Just one letter today; I’m traveling later and don’t have as much time as I’d like.
*****

Dear Sars,
I have a close group of friends that I have hung out with since high school, and we’ve all …

MoveOn.org’s tomato toss
March 23, 2009 · 5 Comments

In case you haven’t seen this already because you set your spam filters to chuck emails from MoveOn — as many of us have; they’re kinda chatty — you can play a tomato-toss game on …