“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!
Sars,
Long story short. I’m a 28-year-old only child of a single mother. My mom’s health has been, for about the last decade, what could casually be called a clusterfuck. The latest problem to develop is …
Thanks to reader Julie C. for tipping me off to this. I wouldn’t have thought to put Kristofferson in the GBC, but on the other hand…A Star Is Born.
I can’t quite pinpoint when it began, my search for the food or drink that best replicates the Creamsicle.
Mr. S, Gen, Skyrockets, and I have been trying to get together for dinner for like a month and a half, and it fell through again on Friday…because Mr. S had to go to the …
Dear Sars,
I have a book question. I’m trying to track down a copy of a knitting book that my mom had when I was a kid. I believe it was from the late ’50s or …
“Will Power Trip”:
Joe passive-aggressives that he thought “the whole point of giving up the big corporate job for the family business was” — he nods after the kids — “you know.” Well, yeah. Couldn’t have …
Dear Sars,
I’ve never done this type of thing, so I hope I can provide you with enough information to help me with my problem.
My wife and me have been married for two years. Most …
Weird little movie. James Hogue is a weird little guy, so that fits. Hogue is the dude who got taken out of a Princeton classroom in handcuffs back in ’91 for, basically, impersonating a sophomore (he was …
[about two weeks ago]
Eating lemon sorbet at my desk, straight from the pint with a serving spoon like the classy dame I am, I drop a nickel-sized blob of sorbet next to the keyboard. My …
Hi Sars,
It’s my apartment. I just moved into a new place, and decided I need to actually decorate this one, now that I’m sort of an official grown-up now at the grand age of 27.
Only …