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!

Update: 10/29, 10:30 AM
October 29, 2008 · 7 Comments

106K and change with three full days left.   Stay tuned for one last mini-prize, coming up later today (possibly tonight).   Stay tuned also for info on DC Tomato Fun Times; when I go …

Update: 10/28, 11 AM
October 28, 2008 · 9 Comments

$105,500-ish as of this writing.   Only one word will suffice, and that word is, of course, “awesome.”
Just a reminder: if you haven’t gotten an email from me telling you I’d logged your receipt, you …

Andrew Johnston, RIP
October 28, 2008 · 16 Comments
Andrew Johnston, RIP

My friend Andrew Johnston passed away on Sunday.   You can read an interview I did with him on TWoP about TV criticism here.
I wish I could find the original sound file for that and …

Update: 10/25, 9:30 AM
October 25, 2008 · 73 Comments
Update: 10/25, 9:30 AM

Last time I checked, 101K.That means that we’ve beat last year’s figure.
Another figure for you: best as I can guess, around the time I crossed the state line into Jersey yesterday, the Tomato Nation readership …

$100,863
October 24, 2008 · 40 Comments

Thank you, Nation.

Update: 10/24, 11 AM
October 24, 2008 · 60 Comments

Just FYI, I am traveling today; comments/emails may not get addressed until late tonight.I’ll do my best to keep up, and I appreciate your patience.
Nearly at 89K as of this writing.   Words fail me.
Happily, …

The Vine: October 24, 2008
October 24, 2008 · 29 Comments

Dear Sars,

I’m hosting an Alfred Hitchcock marathon on Halloween. I was planning onjust screening three films, but tonight I found the first two seasons of AlfredHitchcock Presents and three seasons of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour …

Update: 10/23, 5:15 PM
October 23, 2008 · 19 Comments

$83,263 right now.   Daaaaaaang.
Also: mini-prize!   Awesome reader Jess has offered the following prizes to any reader who donates to “Crochet Club”: a dark-grey-and-white knitted stocking cap/beanie as a main mini-prize, plus 2 knitted …

Match Game
October 23, 2008 · 23 Comments

I’m so excited for the money to kick in, I blanked my blank!
Sorry; little GSN “humor” for you there.   The match is ON, my generous friends. Let’s get this done.
(Note: projects already half funded …

Update: 10/23, 9:40 AM
October 23, 2008 · 10 Comments

75K and change at the moment; just waiting for the match to go into the system.   Great, great work; it’s much easier from here, I think, which is nice with just a week left.
Today, …