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 Crying Game: In A Twist
March 21, 2011 · 24 Comments
<I>The Crying Game</I>: In A Twist

I had never seen The Crying Game, despite knowing the twist most of my adult life — which is why I had never bothered seeing it. The spoiler aspect didn’t bother me, but everything except …

The Verdict: Facts Not In Evidence
March 19, 2011 · 17 Comments
<I>The Verdict</I>: Facts Not In Evidence

Let’s leave aside for a moment the fact that I could barely choose among the myriad vaguely pejorative courtroom-drama puns for the subhed, and focus on what makes The Verdict unique. It’s not the acting, …

The Amy March Shirt Of Justice: Update(s)
March 18, 2011 · 14 Comments
The Amy March Shirt Of Justice: Update(s)

3/18: ALL PRE-ORDERS OUT! Thanks so much for your business (and patience); enjoy. I recommend laundering both types of shirt in cold water, inside out.
Bummed you didn’t get one? No problem! You now have two …

The Vine: March 18, 2011
March 18, 2011 · 242 Comments
The Vine: March 18, 2011

My fiancé and I are huge fans of “marathoning” shows (as in get a show we’ve never seen that’s got at least 3 seasons on DVD and start Netflixing them until we’ve either caught up to live …

A Word from Our Sponsors: King Killer Studios
March 18, 2011 · One Comment
A Word from Our Sponsors: King Killer Studios

King Killer Studios * est. 2008 * the rehearsal space for the rest of us

A Few Fun Demographic Facts About Tomato Nation
March 17, 2011 · 35 Comments
A Few Fun Demographic Facts About Tomato Nation

Hey, remember that survey I asked you to take? I thought you’d like to see some of the results.

The Vine: March 16, 2011
March 16, 2011 · 23 Comments
The Vine: March 16, 2011

I have what I would guess is a pretty common problem for spouses of creative types. I believe that my sweet husband A is suffering from depression. He believes that any depression he feels is …

Bradelor! DUN!: Let’s Get This Over With Live Chat
March 14, 2011 · 7 Comments
Bradelor! DUN!: Let’s Get This Over With Live Chat

Join your fellow sufferers for a live Bradelor! DUN! chat tonight, Monday 14 March at 8 PM ET as we send Brad (and, presumably, bride) down the aisle, into the sunset, between the goal posts, …

The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 3: Bloody Sox
March 14, 2011 · 5 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 3: Bloody Sox

I took it on the road for Episode 3 — to God’s Little Acre, New Jersey, where friends of TN Mike “BSD” Dunn and Janine “J9” Jenik-Dunn rolled out a fantastic spread of peanuts, Cracker …

The Vine: March 11, 2011
March 11, 2011 · 24 Comments
The Vine: March 11, 2011

A Friday-morning Ask The Readers bookfest is a great time to remind all you Jane Eyre fans that I have a reading tonight for the launch of the Eyresses zine — a piece called “Jane …