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: You Broke The Bank…And Also The Site
October 3, 2007 · 68 Comments

Just kidding! Congratulations: the first bonus round is over. The tomato dance is on.
And for ten minutes, I couldn’t get into my own admin panel because we overloaded the CPU. Well done, folks. Well done …

…Scratch that.
October 3, 2007 · 27 Comments

Might as well wait for y’all to finish the bonus round. Won’t take longer than, what, 20 minutes?
Yeah, that’s a dare, Awesome X. You got a problem with that? Express it in a love of …

TN Fall Contest: Spirit Of 76 (Percent!)
October 3, 2007 · 15 Comments

When I started this entry five minutes ago, it led with a 73 pun. So much for that, you Awesomezillae: 76 percent.
I have to go into Manhattan now and, you know, do my other job. …

TN Fall Contest: “I Take Really Short Showers”
October 3, 2007 · 26 Comments

Serendipitous provenance of the quotation aside, I have not showered yet today because I am afraid to leave you spendy peeps alone. And I take short showers! Short hair, short showers! Still afraid! Smelly and …

TN Fall Contest: If Raising Money Were Baseball…
October 3, 2007 · 44 Comments

I was sitting here thinking, “Who would the readers be, if fund-raising were baseball? Would they be the A-Rod — MVP, probably the best player ever? …Nah, he’s kind of whiny. The Babe Ruth? He …

TN Fall Contest: Two (Percent) For The Show
October 3, 2007 · 23 Comments

We’re at 98 percent, and I’d love to stay up and hit refresh until we get to the end, but I just can’t; I simply must get some sleep. If by some chance you polish …

TN Fall Contest: Tim Minear Joins The Awesome Guild
October 2, 2007 · 30 Comments

Because Tim Minear is, as all of you are, awesome, he’s donated a signed Wonderfalls script to the pile o’ prizes. Thanks to reader Allyson for midwifing that — and, while I’m up, to the …

TN Fall Contest: Breaking News
October 2, 2007 · 60 Comments

I just received an email from Charles at Donors Choose with the header “Claire Danes’ manager just called…”

And he and Claire love your challenge. Claire will be sending you a signed DVD complete set of …

TN Fall Contest: I Get My Kicks
October 2, 2007 · 27 Comments

…at percent 66. Well done, lads and lasses. Very well done indeed. About 12K to go before we hit the initial goal.
In the meantime: ping-pong.

The Vine: October 2, 2007
October 2, 2007 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
 
I want to break up with my live-in boyfriend but I don’t know how.
 
Let me explain to you how I got where I am now. First, the practical stuff: M and I met …