“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!
Hi Sars,
I love The Vine and I am so excited that I finally have a (hopefully!) worthwhile question to write to you about.I have a pair of white and red Puma Tennis shoes that …
Hey Sars,
How far can you allow a friend to make “stupid” decisions?
I’m sure we’ve all had the classic scenario, where a friend/sibling/parent dates someone who is “wrong” for them, at least in our eyes,
but at …
Hello Sars:
Longtime listener, first-time caller.It’s a boy — I will hopefully be brief, mostly because I am too damn old to be thinking like this.
I got out of a five-year relationship at the end of …
Hi Sars,
I’m twenty-two and currently in some heavy-duty therapy. I have a kind of complicated and scary history of anorexia, bulimia, depression, suicide attempts, hospitalizations, et cetera, all of which I’m working on. I’m making …
Dear Thanksgiving: Bunting Camp Attendee,
Congratulations on your admission to Thanksgiving: Bunting Camp! It’s the participation and support of alcoholi– er, “campers” like yourself that have made T:BC the proud holiday tradition it is today, and …
Hey Sars,
Please tell Electrician not to bother to get converter for anything
other than her laptop.I studied in the UK for two years and I can’t
even begin to tell you how many fellow Americans tried to …
Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: …
Wing Chun: Oh, hi. …Yeah, I know.
Sarah: …
Wing Chun: I know!
Sarah: …
Wing Chun: Okay, with the understanding that I support you no matter how you want to handle this…
Sarah: …
Wing Chun: …are …
Sars,
I’m preparing to move from the United States to the UK to get my master’s
degree.I’d like to not have to buy all new appliances, so I’ve been
looking into various outlet converters/transformers, et cetera, and have …
Sars,
As someone with a lifelong history of similar back pain due to scoliosis (among other things) I feel Matt’s pain. Some options -– if the new bed is harder than the old one, Matt could …
Blistex Medex in the blue pot/tube!
For very extreme cases, it’s the only thing that sinks in and works!
C in Toronto
Dear C,
Thanks!Many other readers also suggested Blistex Lip Medex.Other lip-balm suggestions appear below; if I got …