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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!

Just curious
July 1, 2008 · 112 Comments

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Minding Baseball’s Business
June 30, 2008 · 41 Comments
Minding Baseball’s Business

A couple weeks ago, Maury Brown at Biz Of Baseball posted “a mosaic” he’d put together — “a multi-faceted, exceptionally broad view of Major League Baseball in 2008.”The site asked various figures who follow the …

The Vine: June 27, 2008
June 27, 2008 · 28 Comments

Hey Sars,
I’m hoping this would be a good and hopefully fun challenge for your Vine readers.
I’ve got some old reel-to-reels that I’m converting to digital before they disintegrate. They’re recordings of an old radio show …

The Vine: June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008 · 32 Comments

Dear Sars,
I’m hoping you can give me a bit of advice regarding a difficult situation at work. I was placed in my current job through a temp agency last summer, and it has mostly worked …

Notes from the Western Slope
June 24, 2008 · 13 Comments
Notes from the Western Slope

Congratulations on buying $8000 worth of fireworks, guy who lives one block from me, but do you think maybe you want to save a few of them for the actual Fourth Of July, instead of …

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
June 24, 2008 · 30 Comments
<I>Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired</I>

From a reader:
Hi Sars,
Have you watched the Roman Polanski doc on HBO yet? With your interest in true crime, I wondered if this one appealed to you.

As much as they tried to make him very …

In praise of the drive-in
June 24, 2008 · 23 Comments
In praise of the drive-in

Dennis Cozzalio has an excellent piece up at GreenCine, a comprehensive primer of drive-in-movie film and culture.The essay includes movies that feature drive-ins, movies that would have played at drive-ins, the design aesthetics, and a …

“I don’t know how you feel about it…”
June 23, 2008 · 43 Comments
“I don’t know how you feel about it…”

“…but I am getting pretty sick and tired of these fucking church people.”
My boyfriend uses that Carlin quip in response to anything and everything — he can’t find his keys, he’s lost his train of …

The Vine: June 20, 2008
June 20, 2008 · 21 Comments

This is seriously hampering my productivity at work.
The Cartoon Network used to show anime movies on Saturday morning (not sure if they still do this, since I don’t watch cartoons on Saturday mornings anymore), …

A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory
June 19, 2008 · One Comment
<I>A Walk Into The Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory</I>

I’m pretty up on the Warhol Factories, but mostly the later iterations in the ’70s; I hadn’t heard of Danny Williams, so I looked forward to seeing A Walk Into The Sea.
But like many Warhol-related …