Ancient Grains Archive
Advice From Two Disparate Persons: Flirting, Deodorant, Presents for Boys
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 06, 2013
What is the best way to call out someone who has been flirting shamelessly and you think is really into you, but who has a girlfriend, but you think if they left their girlfriend, you would totally date this person, but only if, so you need the call-out to be kind of
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A Very Unnatural Crime
Ancient Grains, History
Sep 06, 2013
Alexis Coe’s past essays on women’s history for The Toast can be found here. Most recently: The Rise and Fall of Vivian Davis.
At first, the intimacy between Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward seemed unremarkable. The well-to do young ladies met at the Higbee School for Girls in Memphis, Tennessee, at
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Recasting the First Five SATC Episodes
Ancient Grains, Television
Sep 06, 2013
PILOT: At a birthday party for thirty-something Miranda, Carrie and her friends vow to stop worrying about finding the "perfect" male and start having sex "like men". Carrie has several encounters with tycoon heartthrob Mr. Big (IDRIS ELBA). Miranda starts dating nice-guy Skipper Johnston (DANNY PUDI). Charlotte goes on a date with
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An Issue Of Us Magazine Dated 2097
Ancient Grains, History
Sep 06, 2013
There’s a tale folks tell in these parts, where the dark water of what used to be known as the Pacific meets the steel stumps and gnarls of what used to be Lesser Los Angeles, of the days when the Jen lived among the men and women of the earth.
The Enemy is
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How To Tell If You Are In An Iris Murdoch Novel
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 05, 2013
Have you found your heart swelling with a miasma of unidentifiable but vaguely exciting new emotions? Did you draw the heavy velveteen curtains against dusk’s dense and thrilling fog just now? You may be a character in a novel by prolific Irish-born British novelist Iris Murdoch. Please investigate your surroundings for the
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Feel the Burn: The Idea of Changing Your Body
Ancient Grains, Fitness
Sep 05, 2013
Previous installments of “Feel the Burn” can be found here.
I have another workout for you, but I thought it might be good to have a little more meta talk about our bodies, and get to that another day.
We have made the deliberate decision not to really talk about things like
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Everything I Remember About Being Hit By a Car
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 05, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
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Claire and I had an agenda planned for the night he hit us with his car. Our idea was to do a truncated bar crawl in downtown Santa Cruz. The first bar we'd walk to by ourselves; we'd meet up with some friends
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Best Line Readings From When Harry Met Sally
Ancient Grains, Movies
Sep 05, 2013
Carrie Fisher: "I want you to know...I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table." It's an okay table, too. I would totally own that table.
Bruno Kirby: "[disgusted laugh] NO" immediately at the end of Billy Crystal's "Ted Kennedy was shot?" line.
Carrie Fisher: "You're right, you're right, I know you're right," every
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