“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!
Hi there Sars —
As my kids are getting towards that age when the words begin to matter more than the pictures, I’ve started a collection of my favorite “chapter” books such as The Hobbit, A …
I can’t decide whose home-run call is worse: John Sterling’s (“IT is high, IT is far, IT iiiiiis…GAHN! Home run, [player name]!”) or Michael Kay’s (“Track; wall; see ya!”). Forced to choose, I would vote …
“Family Values”:
You know that scene in Zoolander when they introduce David Bowie to judge the walk-off, and they freeze-frame on him with a subtitle reading “David Bowie” and a chord from “Let’s Dance”? This is …
Dear Sars,
Which sentence is correct: “One of my favorite things about my church are the stained glass windows,” or “One of my favorite things about my church is the stained glass windows”? Should I use …
It’s slow to get rolling, and I came thisclose to turning it off, because a couple of the initial fight sequences looked fake on the level of high-school-play slap choreography. But the payoff is very …
[Updated 6/2/07 with honorable mention entries.]
Below, the winner of the “An Imprisoned Fish” mini-contest. The entry contains all the hallmarks of the SA style: randomly capitalized and quaintly hyphenated words and phrases (“Champagne Punch,” “boy-friend”); …
Hi Sars,
I love the practical turn The Vine has taken, and I’m hoping between you and your readers I can get a recommendation for a good book. I work for a magazine that is finally …
“If PBS Had A Movie-Awards Gala…”
A star-studded, faintly mothball-scented evening of battles and ball gowns, the Hissies — hosted by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will allegedly write her own material — celebrate the epic stories …
Just read in my Cynopsis.com daily bulletin that Jeremy Sisto is joining the cast of Law & Order next season. Rock! I’m mostly happy that the attempt on L&O life via dumping it into a …
Little girl: Hi Mom, so guess what, at school today, after lunch? Dylan? Got a nosebleed.
Mom: Which Dylan?
What I love about that exchange: 1) to a child, a classmate’s nosebleed is above-the-fold, 48-point-type, no-time-for-pleasantries breaking …