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: July 6, 2006
July 6, 2006 · No Comment
The Vine: July 6, 2006

Hi Sars,
In response to “Ow, my aching ass” the best thing I can think of for avoiding sore bike ass is biking shorts, the ones with the padded butt. They sort of feel like a …

The Vine: July 5, 2006
July 5, 2006 · No Comment
The Vine: July 5, 2006

Hi!
I’ve never cooked with key limes, but I would think the reader could squeeze each lime, put the juice of each into an individual ice cube compartment in a tray, freeze it, pop out and …

Cape Notes
July 3, 2006 · No Comment

Saturday June 24
It is somewhere around the Noroton, CT exit on I-95 that I start thinking of vacation not as a unit of time, or a destination, but as a sentient being — a petty, …

The Vine: June 23, 2006
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I keep seeing the smoky-eye look and LOVE it, but for the life of me I can’t recreate it at home.I have printed out pictures and taped The People’s Court just so I can …

The Vine: June 22, 2006
June 22, 2006 · No Comment

Number one, she shouldn’t bother with the thigh machine, as it’s useless. Seriously. Send her over to stumptuous.com to check out real weightlifting for women with Mistress Krista (no, it’s not going to turn …

The Vine: June 21, 2006
June 21, 2006 · No Comment

Prenatal vitamins are good for nail and hair growth.I don’t know what is in the suckers but they really helped me.Beware, they give some people gas in which case no one will come close …

The Vine: June 20, 2006
June 20, 2006 · No Comment

Used to work in a vet’s office, and we went through this all the
time.The problem is that flea eggs can lie dormant for long periods
of time, so an infestation just keeps coming in waves, …

Helena, Part One
June 19, 2006 · No Comment

Helena had first started asking to hear the story years ago, when she was still little enough to be carried — the story of the lady with the great boomerang-shaped scar crossing the right side …

The Vine: June 16, 2006
June 16, 2006 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
I have a very random question for you.It is not
about boys or cats or grammar.It is about my
fingernails.
My fingernails are weak.Weak like they rip if you
look at them funny.If I manage, through extreme
diligence and …

The Vine: June 15, 2006
June 15, 2006 · No Comment

Hey Sars,
Having lived on both sides of the border, I can say that most US-based financial planners/tax people will know next to nothing
about Canadian issues. I can point you in the direction of the …