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Contest: 9 Days ‘Til Awesome
September 22, 2009 – 5:10 PM | 12 Comments
Contest: 9 Days ‘Til Awesome

October is nigh!   Awesome is imminent!   Eeee!
I’d still love more projects (email the URL or URLs to bunting at tomatonation dot com; please, no misspelled titles, or projects set to expire in the …

Contest ’09: It’s Coming
September 13, 2009 – 9:50 AM | 9 Comments

A few things I need before we get started on the ’09 contest:
1. project suggestions
Please send any and all projects for addition to the master list.I can’t promise that I’ll take them all, but I …

Support Local Biz: August 31, 2009
August 31, 2009 – 10:16 AM | One Comment

“Summer of ’84: The Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster, Part 1” is above.Written by Matt Zoller Seitz and Aaron Aradillas and narrated by one Dave Bunting Jr., it’s the first of a five-part series, all …

Yahoooooo-ooo-ooooo!
May 8, 2009 – 2:39 PM | 24 Comments

Thanks to all your donations in the TN Contest ’08, I got to meet Jerry Yang of Yahoo! yesterday.   Pictured: Jerry and I try to act natural while plotting world domination.
A big thank-you to …

Tomato Nation Goes To Washington: The Video
April 7, 2009 – 11:27 PM | 22 Comments

Yes, that guy really did yell, “C’mon, ketchup!”
Thanks to Mr. S for another fine effort in the footage-and-editing department — and of course to all of you for your extraordinary accomplishment.

DC Trip: Pix!
March 16, 2009 – 2:50 PM | 22 Comments
DC Trip: Pix!

The TN Flickr group is here; you can also see a more complete catalog — including my utterly graceless carousel dismount, and a few snaps in which I look 1) drunk and 2) about to …

Capitomato
March 15, 2009 – 1:17 AM | 17 Comments
Capitomato

Full update shortly, but here’s one to hold you (photo compliments of reader M.E.B.).   This is me in the No Child Left Behind hut in front of the Department of Education:

Thanks so much to …

DC Trip Update: The Hoisting Of Pints
March 11, 2009 – 10:26 PM | 12 Comments

If you can’t join the sightseeing fun, you can still see the tomato bending an elbow (and join in with the beverage of your choice) at Capitol City Brewing Company.   We aim to get …

DC Trip Update: Twitter, ETA
March 7, 2009 – 8:20 AM | 31 Comments

Sign up now for tweets from the road!
The plan, currently, is to leave NYC by car at 6:30-7 AM, arriving in DC before noon and hitting our first stop, the Capitol, at noon.   Mr. …

Giving new meaning to the term “field trip”
February 3, 2009 – 9:16 PM | 57 Comments
Giving new meaning to the term “field trip”

It is on at last, friends.   I apologize for the delay, but now, without further ado, I invite you to join me on a tour of Washington, DC’s finest sights:
Friday 13 March 2009
Monuments!
Photo ops!
A …