“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!
potaper cut: n. A paper-cut-esque incision of the finger or knuckle caused by a very crisp potato chip. See also: “tuber-cuticle-osis.”
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a lonely girl in possession of a library card must be in want of a twin. The child who spends a lot of time in books also spends …
Dear Sars,
Welcome back! Dear cracking dry hands season, not so much. I’m here to ask you/the readers about a product I could swear I saw mentioned on the Vine ages ago, but I can’t find …
Ow! Salt in the wound…
As someone who once sliced her palm open on the corner of a saltine, I feel your pain.
Amen!
Now what do you call it when a little piece of chip wedges itself under the gumline? Besides gross and anguishing?
Salt AND vinegar. Degrees more pain in a paper cut.
Nicely conceived, Sarah.
I once cut my hand on a very crusty loaf of bread. I’m having a hard time coining a word for that, though.
Don’t forget the improperly-chewed-corn-chip-stabbing-your-soft-throat-tissue-and-you-feel-like-a-mumps-patient-all-night subcatagory.
I thought I was the only one who could cut herself on food. WHEW.