Dear Sars,
Here’s a question for your readers:
Twinkies. Did Hostess put out a carrot cake variety at one point? I swear that my mom, a great lover of all things carrot cake, bought a box to …

Hey Sars —
Heavy Metal is probably the film
in question. And that’s just how I’d describe it too, except that it was
definitely R-rated. There was a Heavy Metal 2000 based on the same
source but not the …

Hi Sars,
Re: the woman who hates the pill and her boyfriend who hates condoms,
I highly recommend the sponge (http://www.todaysponge.com). It’s back
and it’s great. I have been using it with my boyfriend of seven
months and it …

Dear Sars —
Your Dire Straits searcher should check out www.pandora.com — it sets up “radio stations” that play songs similar to either the artist or the individual song you give them initially. Sounds like it’s …

Hiya Sars —
Not that I’m surprised, but you and the readers seem to be able to come up with the answer to just about anything so far.
I think I read it in Reader’s Digest years …

It’s not a book, it’s a story that was published in Sassy magazine’s December ’92 reader-produced issue called “Snow White” by Grace Hu (it was their fiction contest winner):
“Past Halloweens I had dressed up in …

Dear Sars,
My boyfriend’s apartment has a fairly serious case of bedbugs. He’s tried a bunch of things to get rid of them (he got an airproof mattress cover and has done a complete, deep clean …

A one-stop shop for American reading, in all categories, is The Library of
America at www.loa.org. Everything from pulp to history, from drama to
comedy, from art to artsy-fartsy.
L

Hi,
I work in a research laboratory, and a coworker of mine from Japan asked me for information on books by famous American authors. I haven’t read any “famous” American authors since high school (which was …

Sars,
In keeping with the John Denver theme, she could also use “I Guess He’d Rather Be In Colorado.”
K