What is Sugared Tomatoes?

When two blogs really love each other, the daddy blog will get together with the mommy blog and they’ll have a baby-blog together. Then, the daddy blog will, in all likelihood, beat the mommy blog to assert his masculinity, and they’ll get a blog divorce. The mommy blog, if she’s lucky, will retain custody of the baby-blog, but statistically is more likely to turn to drugs and alcohol, leading to a whole host of problems in the baby-blog, who can develop mental illness, self-esteem issues, and…

Sorry. We were watching Maury again. Sugared Tomatoes is a collaborative audio blog, run by R.W. Mead and Tomato Surprise, that’s updated on Fridays and Sundays. Topics range from politics to pop culture, from theater to theology, and from ravaging space conquests to hundred-man ninja battles. (OK, we lied about the theology.)

 

Who Is R.W. Mead?

Much like, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”, “Who’s on first?”, and “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?”, this question has plagued mankind for centuries. The question may never actually be answered…but we’ll try. R.W. Mead- who sometimes goes by the name of “mobo” for reasons unknown- is a person who, when he’s not hiding his secret identity under the persona of a mild-mannered supermarket cashier, enjoys writing, drawing (though not very well), pop culture, animation, TV, movies, and probably a lot of other things too. Especially talking and joking about them with others. Mr. Mead has somehow found himself working alongside Tomato Surprise bouncing thoughts off of each other using the latest in thought-bouncing technology after what may or may not have been a Brady Bunch-esque situation involving his being Tomato’s personal slave after saving his life (or vice versa). The probably-not-at-all-stunning results of this experiment can be found right here at Tomatoes and Sugar. If, for some reason, you require more of his useless ramblings, you may find them on his own blog, Mostly From Sugar Packets, or by following him on Twitter- provided he doesn’t follow you first.

 

Who Is Tomato Surprise?

Tomato Surprise is an idiot. No, seriously, he is. Despite the fact that, in all likelihood, the universe Tomato occupies is at once too idiotic and too complex to understand, he tries. Smacking himself against the windshield of human consciousness until he’s a flattened speck on its windshield is a favorite pastime, as is deluding himself into believing that the aforementioned activity is in any way productive. In his spare time, Tomato enjoys reading, writing poetry, playing sled hockey, embalming the screaming corpses of long-defunct ritualistic gods- your usual stuff. Tomato would also like to clarify that both R.W. Mead and the cast of The Brady Bunch were, in fact, HIS intergalactic minions.