Ancient Grains Archive
Feel the Burn: Your First Challenge
Ancient Grains, Fitness
Aug 22, 2013
Previous installments of "Feel the Burn" can be found here.
I told you I was coming for you next, newbies. And here I am. With homework.
Did you ever read A Girl of the Limberlost? There's a passage in which our heroine's awful mother, who turns out
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: You, Me, and Consolidated Edison
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Aug 22, 2013
Here is how I got arrested: first, I fell in love; then, three years, eight months, ten days, 12,007 emails and Gchats, innumerable texts, phone calls, and Skype sessions, three breakups and two reconciliations later, I was arrested for trespassing.
The summer after my freshman year of college, I fell in love for
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Mustache Longing
Ancient Grains, Artwork, Cartoons
Aug 22, 2013
The beards of grandmothers and the beards of grandfathers
are more real than the stars
and every evening gray falls in sidereal plaits
streaked by prayers as white as shampoo.
Predecessors, like you I would lie down to dream
and let my hair wash the light of the moon.
II.
Overcoming Dread With Romance Novels
Ancient Grains, Books
Aug 21, 2013
I don’t think my anxiety would have spun out of control quite as quickly had my family been more conscientious about their health. Or, to be more accurate, if my father had actually gone to the doctor more than once in the past decade.
He’s young, for a father of a 25-year-old (only
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Someone Has To
Ancient Grains, Writing
Aug 21, 2013
There are voices calling from the trees. One of them is hers.
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It’s hot. Our sheets smell of nightsweat. Her skin is damp and tastes of salt. She stretches out, naked, every hair visible in the hyper-real white light.
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A Really Long Conversation About Fashion and Museums
Ancient Grains, Loose Threads
Aug 21, 2013
Previous installments in this series can be found here.
Haley: So. Fashion and museums! Big topic.
Anna: You and I both had a lot of thoughts about this year’s Met fashion exhibit, Punk: Chaos to Couture. In early May they had a party where everyone came with
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Robert Townsend and the Hollywood Shuffle
Ancient Grains, Movies
Aug 21, 2013
Everybody wants to work with Robert Townsend. He's the Sara Lee of quadruple threats (actor/writer/director/producer): nobody doesn't like him. Not in a harmless or an unobjectionable way; in the instinctive and helpless way you are drawn to someone who makes you believe in the best and most honest version of yourself.
He is
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