“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.
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From my recap of last night’s Girls at Press Play:
When Eric jokes that he knows the florist has a job opening, Hannah retreats to the safety of Gotham-centric condescension, saying she’d get “a real job, like …
Over the years I’ve seen the Vine readers come through for many people on hard-to-find or discontinued items, so I’m hoping they can help me. Basically, I need new underwear!
For years I was a bikini-underwear …
My husband and I have a casual friend who is a musician in Eastern Europe. We are not very close and don’t keep in touch regularly; we met several years ago at a folk-dancing event …
From my recap of last night’s kind-of-off episode of Girls, “Hard Being Easy,” over at Press Play:
The Marnie/Charlie storyline picks up shortly after the end of the last episode, and it’s well done—but it has …
This is Red Leader speaking. We have confirmed our fund-raising targets for the Red Ops contest. The cities/regions appear below, in alphabetical order:
Albuquerque, NM
Brownsville, TX
Buffalo, NY
Camden, NJ
Columbia, SC
The Dakotas
Detroit, MI
Joplin, MO
Northridge/Dayton, OH
West Virginia’s northern panhandle
This …
I am on the hunt for the perfect work bag. I have tons of large shoulder purses that would work, but I do a lot of walking and have a lot of stuff in my bag, and …
I am a longtime reader and have honestly found myself in an anxiety-creating moral pickle (so to speak…though being in a literal moral pickle might be rather nice!).
Here is the short version: I was in …
It’s time to choose the tenth and final community we drop a bazillion dimes on during the contest. The poll is below, and includes a few entries from the original poll, plus some write-in candidates. …
Out With The Crowd ventured into the NL East late last week when I interviewed Lauren, the head rodeo clown at LoveMyBravos.com, about bullpen-management issues, stupid baby names, and J. Hey’s new look.
Sarah D. Bunting: …
From my recap of “Hannah’s Diary,” over at Press Play:
“Just be who you are,” he says, oh so sweetly, and it’s a moment Hannah is going to take out and look at with brimming eyes for …