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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!

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 …

The Vine: April 11, 2007
April 11, 2007 · No Comment

Sarah,
I found your site through a Google search. Great article on usage, but it still leaves me with a question.
I’m writing a scene, and Zeus says to Roger (my main character): “Not only have …

Fonts de Leon
April 10, 2007 · 19 Comments

You know that scene in Field of Dreams when Busfield looks around and goes, “When did all these baseball players get here?”   That’s kind of how I’m feeling about the font on TN right …

The Vine: April 10, 2007
April 10, 2007 · 11 Comments

O Wise One,
 
My best friend/roommate, I’ll call her K, works with this guy J. We all went to a lot of the same parties so J and I got to be friends and eventually …

Hee, “fungoes”
April 9, 2007 · 2 Comments

It’s a funny word.   And now it’s a blog also.

Hockey hair optional
April 9, 2007 · 7 Comments

Joe R could use some help here, folks:

Need: a bar that’ll be showing the Islanders-Sabres playoff game next Friday night.
It’s for a Sabres fan (obviously), so on the off chance that some
Buffalo expat has …

Needed: bar in 212
April 6, 2007 · 8 Comments

We’d like to go out and watch the game tonight but we can’t settle on a place.   Desired specs:
1. Below 23rd Street; west side of Manhattan preferred
2. Not a super-crowded hipster joint — more …