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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!

Ah, day baseball
May 16, 2007 · 4 Comments

My mother tipped me off that the Yanks had a game today; it does make the Leaning Tower of Worksa slightly more bearable, in theory.
I notice that Torre dropped Abreu in the order, finally (this …

Pledge-driving me nuts
May 15, 2007 · 32 Comments

I wish WNYC.org had some sort of code that let me skip the pledge-period haranguing now that I’ve already donated. Every time I have to restart the audio stream, Brian What’shisnuts is giving me guilt …

The Vine: May 15, 2007
May 15, 2007 · No Comment

Hey Sars,
We’re in the process of adopting our first child, and have already chosen names for boy and girl. I have had some strange looks on our girl’s name, Edith Michael, but it has meaning …

The Vine: May 14, 2007 #5
May 14, 2007 · 18 Comments

I’m looking for a certain pair of shoes that I saw several years ago (I know…it’s going to be difficult to find the exact pair). They look something like this, but they’re not leopard-print; they’re …

The Vine: May 14, 2007 #4
May 14, 2007 · 21 Comments

Hi Sars,
I’m hoping you or the readers can help me salvage a t-shirt that I like very much but seem to have contaminated. I wore it to work and sweated in it, and now I …

The Vine: May 14, 2007 #3
May 14, 2007 · 46 Comments

Dear Sars,
This might be a question for the readers! I’ve been thinking for a while about switching to organic shower products, specifically (for the moment) shampoo, conditioner and shower gel/soap. I’ve been googling it and …

The Vine: May 14, 2007 #2
May 14, 2007 · 6 Comments

Dear Sars:
All right, since your readers do such a great job of identifying stories and such, I’ve got another one — this one’s a TV show. When I was a kid I couldn’t sleep one …

The Vine: May 14, 2007
May 14, 2007 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I just read the Vine about the roommate with the pooping problem, and I would strongly suggest she visit a doctor to check for intestinal parasites. With her new symptoms of particularly smelly stools, …

Ask The Readers
May 11, 2007 · 95 Comments

Sorry for the paucity of Vines this week; I’ve been putting out fires elsewhere and just haven’t gotten it together. (One of those “fires” is actually something fun: an interview with Jack Coleman, Heroes‘s “HRG,” …

Brothers and Sisters: “Grapes of Wrath”
May 10, 2007 · 10 Comments

Holly’s incredulity switches to anger as she snaps that Rebecca “could have been in a ditch, or anywhere,” and can I just ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because …