Above: The artist formerly known as “the foster cat” supervises yet another productive day at TN HQ.
October draws nigh, so it’s time for an update on the annual Tomato Nation/Donors Choose fund drive, as well …

Dear Sars,
It looks like I am going to be driving a moving van across the country this summer…with my cat. I have a vague recollection that you’ve done this before, maybe when you drove to …

I did not manage to clear the entire backlog…because y’all’s enthusiasm for the anniversary project created an entirely new backlog. Heh. We’ll get to them all in time; until then, see what you can do …

Dear Sars,
Would love a little help figuring out what the heck I am remembering here.
It’s something I saw as a kid in the mid-to-late eighties on a children’s program. I’m pretty sure it was a …

You may have noticed a shift in the categories and tags on the blog; I’m preparing for another redesign. I know it feels like I just ported everything over from the last redesign, but this …

I hesitate to wade into the Shellie Ross/Madison McGraw fray — in case you don’t know the story, you can get the background here — but my boy MB at OMG! Ponies! posted an exquisite, …

From Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
Morrison was immortalized first by death at 27 and then by three generations of college kids who needed a poster to cover up a creepy-looking stain in their dorm …

Come see me read at “How I Learned,” hosted by Blaise K — the month’s theme is “How I Learned What Everybody Else Already Knew.”   Not sure what I’ll be talking about yet, but …

I just said a mouthful!
An odd and an end first: 1) my review of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is up on Monkey See — great read, as usz (Kinney, not …

My appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Americana,” from Sunday, talking about trying to find Don.   The podcast is available via free download on iTunes; I come in at minute 22-ish.
OFD is also a Facebook …