“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!
Hey Sars,
The upshot of my problem is this: I’m homeless, friendless, and loveless.
Slight exaggeration.
I’m in a new city, new country; managed to find a great job in the field I’m trained in just as my …
Hi Sarah,
I need your advice.I started a new job two weeks ago, and the two guys I share my cube farm with are driving me absolutely bonkers.
One is loud and constantly on the phone on …
Sarah: Okay, hypothetical.
Regina: Okay.
Sarah: Let’s say there’s a guy, and he —
Regina: What guy?
Sarah: What “what guy”?
Regina: What — what GUY what guy!
Sarah: There is no guy. It’s a hypothetical.
Regina: But it’s the guy who …
Back in high school, we had all sorts of little games and short-lived obsessions that we’d use to pass the time until we could get the hell out of there — like “Loungerama,” a daily …
Hi Sarah!
Here’s my problem: I’m basically best friends with “Janie.” I’m also moderately good friends with “Tom.” In fact, we dated for a short while. Now I’m civil enough to him without giving the …
Dear Sars,
I have kind of an unconventional problem.Reading your column (and, well, existing in society), I’m confronted on all sides with love and sex and romance.It seems like that’s all people ever talk about at …
Dear Sars,
Due to the lack of decent television viewing, I’ve been forced to spend more time with my in-laws than usual, which prompted a recent unfortunate incident on which I’d like to get your take.
A …
For all of my 16 years, I’ve been known as the boyfriendless wonder. Well, I can’t say the same for my friends. They each go and get their boyfriends, and do the whole random hook-ups …
Dear God,
What next? Seriously. I’d like to know. What’s going to happen next? What could possibly happen now? What else can You dump on New York City that You haven’t already? What is going through …
Sars,
There’s this boy. We’re from the same smallish town, so I’ve known him since we were about five or six, though we were never really friends, just passing acquaintances, at most. In high school, we …