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: 55
October 2, 2007 · 18 Comments

55 percent. That’s close to twenty thousand dollars. In 27 hours.
Y’all don’t fuck around, do you.
What a coincidence, neither do I. Time for another mini-prize! Let’s tackle some classroom supplies. Receipts forwarded to me for …

TN Fall Contest: …Whoa.
October 1, 2007 · 30 Comments

As of this writing: 37 percent.
(When I started writing the post? 36 percent. I love it when that happens.)
A few administrative notes….
1. Check out the leaderboard. Words fail me.
2. The following people need to stop …

TN Fall Contest: OMFG, You Guys
October 1, 2007 · 9 Comments

(not a MSCL quote)
 
Eighteen percent already.In fourteen hours.That?Is awesome.
 
I’d love to talk more about your awesomeness, but I have to go measure the bathroom stalls down the hall to see if the tomato costume is …

TN Fall Contest: In medias…reeeees
October 1, 2007 · 16 Comments

Aw, Mr. Katimski.
I put up the contest, I went to bed, I got up, and what do you know, as of this writing we’ve got 4% of the official goal and three (3) projects already …

Eastern Promises
October 1, 2007 · 19 Comments

I didn’t really want to see Eastern Promises. I didn’t absolutely not want to see it, but seriously, I have such Little Viggo fatigue right now — every single article and review about the movie …

TN Fall Contest: Go, Now! Go!
October 1, 2007 · No Comment

Seems appropriate to kick things off with the whispered words from the MSCL theme: the contest has begun.
The permanent contest page is here (or just look to your right; it’s at the top there).Feel …

Great minds
September 29, 2007 · 6 Comments

Evidently the fine folks at Distortrait can smell what the GBC is cooking — they’ve put Kiefer on a girls’ bike.
That goes on a t-shirt, I’d better be getting one free. Thanks to reader Elle …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest V
September 28, 2007 · 19 Comments

Hey Sars,
Yet another help-me-find-this-book question for the readers, if you don’t know off the top of your head. A book intended for probably the 12-14 audience, or slightly older. Some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario where …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest IV
September 28, 2007 · 2 Comments

Hi Sars,
I read a book about five years ago that I think was sort of recent at the time (2002-3). In those days I chose books to read almost purely by the graphic design, so …

The Vine: Find That Book Fest III
September 28, 2007 · 13 Comments

Sars,
As a child I had a favorite book that was, my mother says, a folk tale from some Northern European country. Russia? The Ukraine? Norway? We can’t remember, or in any case disagree. It was …