“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!
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 …
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. …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …