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!

Contest!
April 25, 2007 · 7 Comments

(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 …

“American,” perhaps. “Scientific,” I don’t know.
April 24, 2007 · 55 Comments

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 …

The Vine: April 24, 2007
April 24, 2007 · No Comment

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 …

Cheer up, sweepy Jean
April 23, 2007 · 30 Comments

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 …

Brothers and Sisters recap
April 20, 2007 · 8 Comments

“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 …

The Vine: April 20, 2007
April 20, 2007 · 28 Comments

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 …

Daily round-up
April 19, 2007 · 8 Comments

Lots of meetings/running around/hucking my laptop hither and yon today, so I may not have time to update properly. Just in case, a few goodies to hold you…
My recaplet of the AI results show (and …

The Vine: April 18, 2007
April 18, 2007 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I have a quick piggyback question from a recent Vine about a guy who’s stringing along the girl who loves him. In your response to her, you told her to tell him not to …

Fat City
April 17, 2007 · 70 Comments
Fat City

And Little Joe is the mayor. Or ate the mayor. One of those.
For Little Joe’s area-rug impression, click the link…

Color fat-ography
April 17, 2007 · 55 Comments
Color fat-ography

It’s surprisingly difficult to take a picture of Little Joe that gives a realistic idea of his sphericality. …No, not because you have to take the pictures from space, although I understand why you might …