“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!
Your questions about the Tomato Nation/DonorsChoose.org Spring 2012 Contest, answered. (I hope.) Updated June 3, 1:30 PM.
WHATCHA DOIN’?
Welcome to the Tomato Nation/Donors Choose Spring Contest 2012: Red Ops. Want to donate right now? Click right …
I’ve written this email and erased it a handful of times for reasons I can’t completely explain. Maybe I really don’t want to know the answer to the question, or that this show scarred me …
12:01 AM, Day 11
Another fine performance, friends (echoed by Johan Santana’s no-no earlier this evening). About four and a half thousand on the day, which is fantastic, and I know our WV targets appreciate it.
I …
11 AM
Yay! We’re already up to nearly a thousand thanks to some matching madness out of MN. Thanks, M. Giant, M. Edium, and Trash. And M. Edium’s generosity is not yet exhausted! Scroll down for …
5 PM
All righty, Nation. Donations have been a liiiiiiittle casual so far today; we haven’t broken a thousand bucks and we still have 7 full projects to complete if we want to get that 1K …
7:15 PM
Great work, Nation! The 2K match has come in — huge thanks to our anonymous donor today! — and that brings us to 14 projects completed and nearly 6K on the day. Amazing job.
Still …
Is it all coming together at last for the Washington Nationals in 2012? It looks that way — if catchers stop dropping like Spinal Tap drummers, at least. Photographer and Nats loyalist Cheryl Nichols talked …
From my recap of Girls 107, “Welcome to Bushwick AKA The Crackcident,” over at Press Play:
Lavoyt is apparently used to the sad-sack routine working, because his face hardens instantly and he calls her a tease. Jessa …
8:45 PM
Great work today, everyone: 6 projects completed! And we still have that DAKOTAS match code all evening, so if you’re winding down from the weekend, soothe that sunburn with a donation!
I have another Old …
I’m hoping the Tomato Nation will be able to help me find a book that I read in high school. It was for an English class during my junior or senior year, 1991-1993. We had …