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“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

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From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

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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!

Flight: The road more traveled by
February 19, 2013 · 8 Comments
<I>Flight</I>: The road more traveled by

The flight in Flight is a triumph. I’ve known about the sequence — about most of the movie’s plot details, in fact — for months, and it still shoved me into the cockpit and locked …

(At Least) Eight Questions About Silver Linings Playbook
February 18, 2013 · 42 Comments
(At Least) Eight Questions About <I>Silver Linings Playbook</I>

Silver Linings Playbook is supposedly a story about two “crazy” people — Pat (Bradley Cooper), recently released from a correctional psych facility after beating his wife’s lover severely; and Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), whose guilty grief …

TN Read-Along #17: And I Don’t Want To Live This Life
February 18, 2013 · 12 Comments
TN Read-Along #17: <I>And I Don’t Want To Live This Life</I>

UPDATE! The discussion thread will open Monday 25 February. Vote below on whether/when you could do a live chat — and add any scheduling issues (i.e., “I’m west coast and couldn’t do it at 7:30 …

The Vine: February 15, 2013
February 15, 2013 · 32 Comments
The Vine: February 15, 2013

I need a bag.
This is for a friend. She likes this bag. Well, she likes the size, and she likes the style, the way it’s designed to rest against the body. She really doesn’t like …

The Vine: February 13, 2013
February 13, 2013 · 37 Comments
The Vine: February 13, 2013

This time last year, my husband and I decided to try and get pregnant. For the first few months, we decided to “Not Try Not To Try” (I go off birth control and we see …

Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts
February 12, 2013 · 3 Comments
Around the Tomatoverse: Rocha, Rayna, Ari Gold, and dancing nuts

Above, Coco Rocha schools Buzzfeed on the perfect photobomb. Hee.
On The Blotter, The Amazing Soriano solved the category-spacing ish. Thanks, friend.
On Yahoo!, I recapped The Carrie Diaries, Girls (ugh), and love in an elevator on Nashville; interviewed Coco Rocha about …

The Vine: February 8, 2013
February 8, 2013 · 40 Comments
The Vine: February 8, 2013

There’s a historical romance I’m looking for. I can only remember some parts of it. I read it in the early ’90s.
It starts out where this girl is with her father in this field (United …

Les Miserables: Uch, haine
February 7, 2013 · 30 Comments
<I>Les Miserables</I>: Uch, <I>haine</I>

Never have I been so delighted to break a review screener in half as instructed. Les Miserables is everything I mean when I say I hate musicals: loud, obvious, sincere, leaden, fucking goddamn endless. Every …

The Vine: February 6, 2013
February 6, 2013 · 40 Comments
The Vine: February 6, 2013

Even with searching through the Vine and TN, I’m at a loss over this: my sister’s cat keeps defecating (and possibly peeing) on a corner of the dining room rug. Now that a small table …

Little Joe, 199?-2013
February 5, 2013 · 245 Comments
Little Joe, 199?-2013

Angels, prepare to receive among you my little friend. Please make him welcome with people food, especially Kix, because he likes to chase them, and lettuce, because I still don’t know why, but I know …