“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!
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.
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As much as they tried to make him very …
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 …
“…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 …
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), …
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 …
Hi Sars,
I have a friend, who I’ll call R., and R. has a friend who I’ll call Fuckface. R. is a pretty good guy, but Fuckface is quite racist.
I’ve often told R. that I can’t …
(Had to.Sorry.)
To the headlines: Randolph got pink-slipped, finally, and Chien-Ming Wang broke the crap out of his foot.
I feel kind of bad for Randolph, because, although we can’t know what went on behind closed doors, …
Can’t imagine to what that quote could possibly refer?Head over to The House Next Door, where Joe R and I live-blogged Staying Alive for their joint “Summer Of ’83” feature with Movie Geeks United.
Other coverage …
I watched the first 20 minutes of They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? at Gustave’s house, months ago, but didn’t get around to watching it in its entirety until last week, and it’s worth the revisiting.I …