“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!
Summer is drawing to a close, and what better time than the back-to-school season for an “exposé” on the mainstreaming of nerd culture? It seems like we see a piece like this in the New …
Hi Sars —
Perhaps someone
could help me find this book?
I read it in high-school, grade 10 or so, and
I can’t recall the title or author but have thought about it often enough
that some 20 years later …
I don’t know what Irn means by non-preachy, but a dear athiest friend of mine recently joined a group called SOS. In his words, it is “an organization for those who don’t want to put …
I would recommend checking out the works of Mikhail Bakhtin,
particularly Speech Genres and Other Late Essays and The Dialogic Imagination.
He’s a Russian literary critic/theorist/linguist who may well have
pioneered a lot of the understanding of …
Two ideas:
1) Smell. If, for example, a lemon doesn’t smell lemon-y, it isn’t ripe yet.
2) http://yourproduceman.com/. It’s goofy, but he usually explains how to pick a ripe whatever he is raving about that day. …
Katie found Mike standing motionless in the kitchen of the cottage, grocery bag on his hip, staring into a corner of the ceiling. She reminded him that he was supposed to look up into a …
Hey Sars,
I have a problem — as does everyone. It’s not about boys or living conditions or anything like that.
I’m scared of the grocery store. Seriously.
I’m 25 years old and have never really learned how …
Hello there,
I have had a couple of instances in which someone who works for me has had a serious hygiene problem. In the first, I worked for a Major Entertainment Company, which has VERY well-defined, …
I recommend American Apparel’s Sheer Jersey Cap Sleeve Raglan. It’s in the Short-Sleeved section on the website, but it fits like a tank top. It’s lightweight, hides a bra perfectly, and comes in all kinds …
Hi Sars!
My suggestion for Not a Fashonista is to try taking her daughter to juniors departments, especially at department stores like JC Penney.
My largest gripe as a 5’2″, 135-pounder is that nothing they have is …