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!

Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: friends

“Every day is Father’s Day”
June 13, 2008 – 9:55 AM | 7 Comments

NPR’s song of the day is “Father’s Day,” by the official Friends Of TN Band, Guyz Nite.   (That’s Mr. Stupidhead on the far left.)   For dads about to rock, they salute you.   …

Gentlemen prefer Sars
May 19, 2008 – 8:58 PM | 75 Comments
Gentlemen prefer Sars

Sorry for the sporadic updates of late; between Bean’s wedding, the cold I came down with the very minute she was safely married, AIDS Walk fun times (awesome job, Angela and Team Supersnack!), bleaching my …

You Guys, 2155; AIDS’s Balls, 0
May 9, 2008 – 11:01 AM | 10 Comments

But seriously, folks: I only have $45 to go until I reach my AIDS Walk goal. Would you mind donating if you haven’t already, to get me over the hump? (Heh; I said “hump.”) And …

No, really: What of our hens?
May 5, 2008 – 8:52 AM | 10 Comments

Reader Lori S. tipped me to International Respect For Chickens Day, which I very dis-respectfully missed (it was yesterday). United Poultry Concerns does have a store, if you would like to purchase a chicken-themed shirt …

Top Seeds
April 29, 2008 – 11:09 AM | One Comment

You think that, someday, I’ll run out of tomato puns. And it just never happens. Anyway, a few links and little whatnots for you here…
Voting for the NCheeseAA Elite Grate stays open until tonight: Tuesday …

Around the cineblogosphere
April 16, 2008 – 2:32 PM | 8 Comments
Around the cineblogosphere

That is not a word, and shouldn’t be; I apologize. Let me make it up to you with some links! First, The Onion‘s AV Club reviews The Pride Of The Yankees and Eight Men Out …

Jacked
April 9, 2008 – 9:00 PM | 46 Comments

Our shoplifting friend is finally back.

The NCheeseAA Tournament: Manchego Madness (…maybe)
April 6, 2008 – 7:54 PM | 14 Comments
The NCheeseAA Tournament: Manchego Madness (…maybe)

“Mere moments later, a plate-clearing brawl broke out, and ladies and gentlemen, Stilton is a hair-puller.”
“What the hell are you on about?” So glad you asked! Keckler, star of The Grub Report and TWoP, and …

“…Puns Escaped Unharmed”
April 3, 2008 – 10:38 AM | 3 Comments

‘Tis the season once again for headline fun with the word “bunting” — but while today’s does have a baseball subject, the bunting in question is not the effecting of an infield hit, but the …

Cue “Hallelujah Chorus”
March 31, 2008 – 3:09 PM | 23 Comments

It’s Opening Day, ladies and gentlemen, thank God, and even though the Yanks have already gotten rained out for the home opener, it’s an embarrassment of baseball riches around the dial right now — KC/Detroit, …