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

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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!

April 4: Housekeeping
April 4, 2007 · No Comment

Apologies.   I don’t know what happened yesterday afternoon, and I don’t know  how Bluehost fixed it.   Sorry for the outage; thanks, Bluehost.
Archives.   Still working on re-timestamping everything; hope to finish this week. …

Baseball Linksplosion!
April 3, 2007 · 8 Comments

The only semi-suck thing about the beginning of the season is all the off days, so I’ve put together a little list of the baseball/sports blogs I check regularly in case, like me, you need …

The jerk store called
April 3, 2007 · 27 Comments

It’s from an old-ish issue, but I just yesterday ran across Time Out New York‘s Con Ed Awards For Bad Service.   I think they went too easy on Duane Reade — zombies aren’t usually …

Hmm.
April 2, 2007 · 15 Comments

Bonsall.
Richardson.

K-k-k-ken!
April 2, 2007 · 15 Comments

I’ve got the Yanks/Rays game on.   Ken Singleton, I have missed you.
Endless analysis of the fans’ relationship to A-Rod, I have not missed you.   People, let’s concentrate on the actual problems with the …

My Pukey Valentine
March 11, 2007 · No Comment

Hello again, gentle readers.Please accept my heartfelt apologies for leaving you without recourse to caustic complaint for so long — but I have returned, just as fond of the sound of my own voice, and …

Lilith Unfair
March 11, 2007 · No Comment

I don’t care how desperately Time needs to drive up newsstand sales — no dearth of actual news, no market-research addled kowtowing to their bottom line can excuse the cover of their July 21 issue.In …

The Jury Duty Diaries
March 11, 2007 · No Comment

PRELUDE
When I moved to New York, my father offered me two pieces of advice — don’t leave the cap off the toothpaste because the roaches will hop on your Crest, and don’t register to vote …

If The Sign Fits…
March 11, 2007 · No Comment

Clearly, the penal code has some problems that it needs to work through. Take, just as an example, the recent hardware store shoplifting case.Some highly-evolved guy nicked a number of items from his local True …

Give Me Groceries Or Give Me Death
March 11, 2007 · No Comment

Yesterday, I went to the grocery store.I don’t like to go to the grocery store, for several reasons.First, most ofthe other shoppers assume that nobody else in the store has anything better to do than …