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!

The Vine: April 17, 2007
April 17, 2007 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I have a grammatical question for Tomato Nation. Is “Didn’t you used to …” grammatically correct? It sounds funny but I’m not sure. A pedantic person I know says it should be “Didn’t you …

A little love for the orange and maroon
April 17, 2007 · 25 Comments

Because nothing soothes the soul quite like a sleeping Hobe.

Be careful out there
April 16, 2007 · 45 Comments

If you have friends or loved ones at Virginia Tech, please, take the best of care, and let us know in the comments if there’s anything the rest of us can do. I hope it’s …

Thank you, sir
April 16, 2007 · 10 Comments

Yesterday, baseball celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut:

During Sunday evening’s ceremony, 28 Dodgers stood along the third-base line, 28 42s shoulder to shoulder, no names across the backs, the faces white, black, Latin, …

The Chronicles of Lardnia
April 13, 2007 · 19 Comments

The new digital camera arrived today.Little Joe is still fat.Prepare to be dazzled.

The Vine: April 13, 2007
April 13, 2007 · 26 Comments

Hey Sars,
Following a recent incident whilst travelling — overweight bags + evil airline check-in lady = me with eighteen layers of clothes on — I have finally decided to convert to the layering trend. I …

The Vine: April 12, 2007
April 12, 2007 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
I have an unusual problem, and I hope you can offer some insight.
I am a twenty-five-year-old virgin. I have had virtually no romantic or sexual experiences — ever. Essentially, I am afraid of sex …

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
April 12, 2007 · 24 Comments

I’ve recently gone back to recapping on Television Without Pity — on a show that’s in progress right now, so I had to start cramming episodes frantically to get caught up.For the last week, I’ve …

My latest recap
April 12, 2007 · 3 Comments

From Brothers & Sisters 118: Three Parties:
“She’s trying to ask you for a date, dicksmack. A little respect for the moment? Oh, I forgot. Your milkshake brings all the girls to the yard. And I …

Signs
April 11, 2007 · 16 Comments

On my block, there is a deli.It is not a good deli; the coffee is awful, the ice-cream “selection” is buried in a grimy chunk of Hoth, and between the lottery people, the OCD bacon-sandwich …