“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!
Lance Mannion, in the midst of discussing David Halberstam:
One of baseball’s great beauties is that it is played at the speed of a human voice’s ability to keep up. It’s the only team sport that …
Okay, here’s my problem. I’m 31, single, I don’t want to be, and I’m wondering if I’m being too picky. Typical, huh? Maybe not so much. This might actually be a case where the guy …
We had a rerun this week, but it needed recapping, and now it’s done.
Chad says his girlfriend is out of town and he doesn’t “have a curfew,” as if that is the point or anything …
Dear Sarah,
I was born and raised in St. Louis until I left for college, and one of the things that I left with was an undying loyalty to the 2006 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.
Sorry, …
(Note: This is not the contest, which I’ve rescheduled for the summertime. This is just a contest.)
The Scientific American entry spawned a few comments that got me thinking — what if I tried to write …
Long ago, in an economy far far away, I had a job at Holtzbrinck Electronic Publishing. Holtzbrinck, a German company with many American-publishing holdings, also owned Scientific American, at least at that time; also at …
Did you see the most recent episode of Lost, called “Catch-22”? It made me cranky because there was no actual Catch-22 in it. I’ve always understood a Catch-22 to be a situation in which two …
BSD and I always bet on the season series between Boston and the Yankees; I think I won last year, but it’s not looking good for ’07 after the Bosox completed a sweep of the …
“Kevin accepts that as the truth, although he still wants nothing to do with the blind date on the merits (‘I don’t like your friends’), but it’s obvious from outer space that she’s lying, which …
Sars:
I’m coming to New York this weekend and am in search of the ultimate Little Italy cannoli. Any chance you can add this request to Tomato Nation so the NYC foodies can weigh in?
Thank you,
I’m …