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!

TN Fall Contest: More Matching Funds!
October 12, 2007 · 10 Comments

A generous anonymous donor — known henceforth as “$ and the Mysterians” — has offered to provide a chunk of matching funds if/when we reach various donation milestones in the contest.
So, if/when we hit $80,000, …

The Vine: October 12, 2007
October 12, 2007 · 84 Comments

Hey, Sars,
I’ve got a question that I’m hoping either you or your readers can help me with. A makeup consultant at the Lancome counter at Macy’s recently recommended that I use a facial exfoliant with …

“Bunting is pretty outdated”
October 11, 2007 · 18 Comments

For obvious reasons, I love collecting references like that, or hearing them on baseball telecasts.Tim McCarver went on a rant about small ball a couple of postseasons ago where he was like, “Nobody cares about …

TN Fall Contest: The Day In Review
October 10, 2007 · 62 Comments

As of this writing, you’re 75 percent of the way towards the 100K goal. In dollars, that’s $75,000. Seventy. Five. Thousand. Dollars. In ten days.
That is quite a sum of awe.
I’ve continued to add projects …

Around the TN-iverse
October 10, 2007 · 2 Comments

…If you’ve got any more money to spare for a good cause, considering attending the 7A benefit for Rett Syndrome Research. 7A is the production company behind Nikki, and your $65 ticket buys you some …

The Vine: October 9, 2007
October 9, 2007 · 39 Comments

Dear Sars:
 
I was among the faithful at the Stadium last night, who stayed past Kyle Farnsworth’s miraculous scoreless inning, only to watch Torre pinch-hit the meathead that used to star in those deodorant commercials for …

TN Fall Contest: Post-Moosh
October 9, 2007 · 10 Comments

As you’ll see, all the TN Challenges have gotten mooshed together, and I’ve upped the ceiling to 100K. Behold the awesomeness right here; currently we’re at 73 percent. I’ve added a number of new projects …

TN Fall Contest: Moosh!
October 8, 2007 · 17 Comments

Zach just emailed me to say that the DC tech team is combining all the Tomato Nation challenges/bonus rounds into one monster challenge; you probably won’t see any weirdness on the front end, and it …

TN Fall Contest: Looks Like Jersey Private-School Math Programs Could Use Some Help Too
October 7, 2007 · 4 Comments

…Heh. The remaining projects in The Final Awesome didn’t add up correctly, so I’ve added a few more to bring us up even with the 25K goal. The 79 percent figure is still accurate, though. …

I don’t care about the young folks either
October 6, 2007 · 18 Comments

I don’t actually have a problem with the ubiquity of “Young Folks” — the fact that, in the last week, it’s turned up in episodes of Dirty Sexy Money, Gossip Girl, AND Journeyman would seem …