“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!
It’s time once again for the annual Dewey Donation System book drive. My mom used to tell me, “Books are treasures,” and it may have been her profound aversion to the sight of a hardcover …
My recap of the Knight Rider pilot/reboot is up on TWoP now.
Okay, bad guys of television and film, listen up: if a given hostage is the only means you have of attaining your goal, and …
“Har dee har har.”
I just ate a package of Chuckles, and I hate myself a little bit for settling, because I didn’t really want Chuckles — I didn’t set out for the deli on a …
Let me just ask right up front: what is going on with Elizabeth’s hair? I get that it’s a wig, but then, when she’s reviewing the troops and it’s down on her shoulders, all lank, …
I’ve got to put the book on my wish list; I could swear a friend of mine gave it to me as a gift, and I just hadn’t gotten around to reading it, but I’ve …
But it’s jury duty which the United States Postal Service chooses to honor with a stamp.
Hundreds of thousands of species of flora and fauna. Dozens upon dozens of minor holidays; myriad dead Americans of significant …
“‘The world needs gravediggers too’? What the hell is THAT supposed to mean?”
Not a perfect effort, but still impressive. Ben Affleck has historically struck me as a lot smarter than his career choices …
Dear Sars:
Maybe you can help me find a baseball book. I saw it a couple weeks ago in Barnes & Noble. It was a book about baseball, but specifically about the hidden rules or etiquette …
I felt like I’d seen it before — the neurotic adult children whose non-specific damage is played for laughs; the deprecation of certain arts/academia “types”; the warm, helpful immigrant/minority who opens the eyes of the …