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: August 24, 2001
August 24, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
Hoping you can help with this, but it helps just to rant for a bit.
Why is it that EVERY female on the planet is hooking up except me?
No, I know, you hear that all the …

The Vine: August 23, 2001
August 23, 2001 · No Comment

Bulimia I know. Very very well.
I started when I was 16, ended when I was 29, and every step of the way was hard-fought. I’ve been free of the monster for six years, and it’s …

This American Life
August 20, 2001 · No Comment

I came into the world a United States citizen, a daughter and granddaughter and great-granddaughter of United States citizens. I remain a United States citizen, and for the most part, I enjoy my United States …

Pack Rats
August 20, 2001 · No Comment

It’s not a good day today. The weather is vintage August in New York — going outside feels like a cross between draping myself in a wet blanket fresh from an autoclave and taking that …

Have Cats, Will Travel
August 20, 2001 · One Comment

In about a month, I will relocate to Toronto for the season. I’ve scored a sweet sublet complete with DSL and a parking space, and I can’t wait to blow out of Manhattan with my …

All The Wrong Places
August 20, 2001 · One Comment

Yesterday, I placed an online personal ad. And I can hear you right now all “oh suuuure, act like you don’t care whether you get married, ‘oh, I don’t care, I don’t need a man, …

The Vine: August 14, 2001
August 14, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
Again, your response to SJJD just rocks. There is a superb book called Slut!: Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum that might be valuable for all parties involved to read, as …

The Vine: August 10, 2001
August 10, 2001 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
I just read the letter from Stuck in the Middle and figured I would comment on it, since I have had a similar issue with a friend of my boyfriend’s, and I have a …

The Vine: August 9, 2001
August 9, 2001 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I’m writing about Sincerely Concerned. I think she may be a little selfish — I mean, come on, she as much said she wants her mom around when they start having kids. Do you …

The Vine: August 8, 2001
August 8, 2001 · No Comment

Hey Sars!
As a recent convert to the Tomato Nation, just let me say that I think the site’s absolutely fab. Love the essays, love the Vine, yadda yadda yadda. Yeah, I know you’ve heard it …