Ancient Grains Archive
In Defense of Cheerleading
Ancient Grains, Sports
Aug 15, 2013
Let’s get the obvious objections out of the way. Cheerleading involves the following egregiously offensive activities:
- Girls cheering for (mostly) boys
- Girls wearing short skirts that submit them to the male gaze
- Girls in said short skirts in front of large audiences
- Girls wearing outfits that are gender normative
I
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Baseball
Ancient Grains, Sports
Aug 15, 2013
I'm not great at being a baseball fan.
I was really, really good at it when I was a kid. As people who were fans of the Montreal Expos go (and there were dozens of us! dozens!), I had pretty unimpeachable credentials: I said individual prayers for the best players, I had a
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Tomorrow is Sports Day
Ancient Grains, Sports
Aug 14, 2013
Oh, I am the wrong person to be talking to all of you about this, but here we are. Tomorrow is yet another themed day for us here at The Toast, for we live in exciting and themed times. The theme will be sports. [pauses for response]
We will have writing about football
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Items In Shirley Jackson Stories I Have Longed For and Feared in Equal Measure
Ancient Grains, Books
Aug 14, 2013
The cup of stars, The Haunting of Hill House. "Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and her brother giggled and her mother said calmly, 'She wants her cup of stars.'
Indeed yes, Eleanor thought; indeed, so do I;
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Feel the Burn: Bonus Quad Lightning Round
Ancient Grains, Fitness
Aug 14, 2013
Previous installments of "Feel the Burn" can be found here.
Don't get used to extra installments of "Feel the Burn," sports [conditioning] fans! I just thought it would be fun to share one of my own personal workouts with you, which I did yesterday at 9:30am. By my calculation, that means the
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A New Version of You
Ancient Grains, Television
Aug 14, 2013
In 1998, as Joey and Dawson shared their first kiss and Felicity agonized over Ben and Noel, poor Buffy Summers murdered the love of her life. Watching that episode some 15 years later, as a woman well into my 30s, I cried bitter tears. As she made out with her ex-boyfriend, stabbed
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The Haircut
Ancient Grains, Artwork, Cartoons
Aug 14, 2013
I Hear He’s Looking for a PR Person, Ladies
Advice, Ancient Grains
Aug 14, 2013
Quiet, a businessman is talking.
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