“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!
Help me please, I’m having an ethical dilemma and I can’t stand it.
It started on Craigslist (of course). I put up an ad in “women seeking men” and a million guys replied. One stood out. …
Abraham Lincoln passed his last hours in a cramped back bedroom in a boardinghouse across the street from Ford’s Theater, mercifully unconscious, folded awkwardly onto a bed too short for him, laboring to breathe. A …
On my drive to work I often drink coffee and eat cinnamon graham crackers. Sometimes during my lunch hour, I’ll go out to the parking lot and sit in my car, reading a book and …
What’s your opinion of cash bars at weddings?
I attended a wedding recently where there was a charge attached to every beverage except tap water. This was met with a ton of grousing (I heard …
As fall and winter approach, I need some wardrobe-building help.
I work in Manhattan in an industry that’s not quite suits-and-heels, but isn’t cazh, either. I have lots of appropriate separates to wear, but I …
I have an issue driving me crazy that I would love to get some perspective on from you and your readers.
I have a coworker who makes me crazy. I’m tempted to give you a bunch …
I just spent an hour playing cards on our new backyard deck with Mr. S and Gen. All quiet on the Brooklyn front, except for one romantically desperate cricket who didn’t get the memo. “Um: …
Long, long ago I read a short story that involved a writer who loved to write but was constantly rejected for publication. Somehow, he ends up with a box that is an “adjective magnet” — …
Now with follow-up info! — 10/17/11
I have a wedding-related conundrum, and I hope you (and the illustrious Vine readership) can help me figure out the best course of action.
My dear friend B just got engaged …
