“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.
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Well, it’s not going to be dull:
Joe Girardi thought back to when he replaced Mike Stanley as the New York Yankees’ catcher in 1996, Joe Torre’s first season as manager. “I remember walking into spring …
Damn!
Inspired by Joe R’s horrorthon over on Low Res, I shuffled my Netflix list to move some horror movies to the top, and they began arriving last week, starting with The Descent, and I can’t …
Owen Gleiberman wrote such a mash note to this movie, I didn’t expect to feel so underwhelmed.It’s good, mind — good-natured as well, and a pleasure to look at, and the leads are very good …
Not the Sox themselves — and congrats to the team and its fans, by the way — but Charles P. Pierce on Slate.com, who sours an otherwise serviceable season overview by taking the obligatory slap …
First, a quick note about actual fundraising: although I said I would add more projects and continue to raise the goal, I’ve decided to hold steady instead, at least for right now. If Colbert makes …
I think the animated clip to which that headline refers has gotten forwarded all over the internet in the last week, so some of you may already know what I’m about to link to, but …
Steven Pinker on why we curse.
And following a link from PCJM to an exhaustive Halloween-candy review, I found on the same site “The ‘I Don’t Like It’ List,” which had me rolling. “DaaaaAAAAAAAAAVE!”
So…the costume arrived just now.
I am pleased to report that it fits. In fact, I can sit down in it, and am sitting in it right now, typing this entry. It’s kind of big and …
Sars,
I know you’ve resolved not to care about that slim piece of floor next to your toilet, but I’m not sure I’m ready to give up yet. My idiot DIY-er landlord mismeasured just about everything …
It’s worth it, though: the singing-Jaws-theme guy is back with his version of the Halloween theme song.Skyrockets didn’t like this one as much, because it’s a dullish piece of music to work with, which I …