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: June 21, 2005
June 21, 2005 · No Comment

I have a few suggestions for your reader who wanted a tattoo.My first piece of advice is one that people rarely take: don’t get a tattoo until you’re 25, and make sure you’ve been …

Girls’ Bike Club IX: Negative, Ghost Rider, The Pattern Is Full
June 20, 2005 · One Comment

Wing Chun: Hello?
Sarah: Oh, hello.
Wing Chun: Oh. Hello.
Sarah: You know…
Wing Chun: I know. Oh, how I know.
Sarah: And the thing is…
Wing Chun: Mmmmmm-hmm.
Sarah: Because I just…I…
Wing Chun: …If I may?
Sarah: Please.
Wing Chun: SHUT. UP. TOM. …

The Vine: June 17, 2005
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Hi, Sars —
Here’s a technique, not a product — I have the same problem and my hairstylist helped me as follows:
Get a strong hairdryer of good quality that also has one of those attachments …

The Vine: June 16, 2005
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I am looking for a hair product. I have pretty fine, straight-as-a-board hair and it tends to get oily so I wash every day, but I am still getting the frizzies when I blow dry. …

The Vine: June 15, 2005
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I love the fashion-related questions…so glad others agreed with the raves for Bravissimo.
For the full-sized gal having trouble finding good tailored garments, she should try Land’s End. Their Women’s clothes go up to 26, …

The Vine: June 14, 2005
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Well-endowed readers wrote in by the dozen to suggest foundation-garment solutions for the big-breasted — and nearly half of them, independent of one another, voted for Bravissimo as a life-saving resource. It’s a UK-based company, …

Good Humor
June 13, 2005 · No Comment

I can understand how the recent heat wave might have caught the deli owners of the city unawares in the ice-cream-novelty department. After all, March lasted approximately two months longer than it’s supposed to, and …

The Vine: June 10, 2005
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Sars:
I feel I’ve regressed back to the fifth grade, which is why I’m writing to you.
To explain: fifth grade was basically the nadir of my existence.I got braces and glasses the same year, was brainy …

The Vine: June 9, 2005
June 9, 2005 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I have a quick question — on a recent commercial offering a free trial period
on Product A, the voice-over and screen say, “Try it free!”
This…seems wrong. Shouldn’t it be “Try it FOR free”? I …

The Vine: June 8, 2005
June 8, 2005 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
So I come from a moderately religious background, with extended family
who tends more towards religious and less towards moderate.My cousins
host an annual huge party, to which the whole family is
invited, and I was all …