“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!
Oh wise and wonderful Sars,
Here’s my problem:
I work as a paralegal at a large law firm. About ten months ago, “Mandi”
was hired as a receptionist. Since Mandi’s about my age and very outgoing,
we started having …
Sweet Sars:
I recently had a hot and heavy relationship with a guy, J. I have teenaged children, and have never dated since I divorced their father four years ago. J and I fell quickly in …
Welcome to AFS 435: Advanced Foley Studio. AFS 435 is an independent-study unit for sound-design students looking to build their ambient-noise portfolios. You will receive one grade for the semester, based on your ability to …
Oh, Sars, I’ve been a long time reader of The Vine, but now I have a problem to share:
I’m just starting classes and I have a math teacher that is blind. Which is normally a …
Hi Sars!
Yours is the funniest advice column I’ve ever read, and the only one with
advice I would really consider taking.
So, here goes my problem, or rather something that I’ve had on my heart for
some time.
I …
Dear Sars,
Truly, you have blessed my life with snark. I ask that you do the same with your all-encompassing wisdom.
This is a pretty weird question. All of a sudden my entire world is just utterly …
Hi Sars,
I have an ethical dilemma, and I’d really like an opinion from someone who doesn’t know me.
I recently got a very wonderful, fantastic internship, that is fun, relatively prestigious, and is giving me a …
If I could ban a two-word phrase from the English language, any two-word phrase, I would pick one in particular immediately and without hesitation. No, not “Bush administration,” because experience has sadly proven that ignoring …
Hi Sars,
I have an embarrassing quandary for you that I have mentioned to no one else.
I’m afraid my boyfriend is gay.
Back story: Tom and I met four and a half years ago, when I was …
Hey Sars,
My friend C and I were friends for about four years. We lived in the same town
for a year or so and instantly bonded. We had the same taste in music,
clothes, we were both …