Ancient Grains Archive
The Trans* Series: C’mon, Hollywood
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Jan 16, 2014
Welcome to the first installment of The Trans* Series, we're always looking for more! This particular one was brought to you by a reader who specifically wanted to sponsor a piece on trans* issues. Thanks, reader!
I’d like to take a moment to talk about Jared Leto.
No, I haven’t seen Dallas
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Signs You’re Getting Too Much Sleep
Ancient Grains, Health
Jan 16, 2014
Previously: The invisible signs of aging.
Increased memory elegance
Skin retention
Night smiling
Heart becomes a graceful willow tree
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Jan 16, 2014
Here is a righteous Storify about why NPR letting abortion protesters get away with portraying themselves as wee praying grandmas is hot nonsense.
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Requiem for a Small-Town Taco Bell: Welland, Ontario
Ancient Grains, Friendship
Jan 15, 2014
It was with great – perhaps disproportionate – sadness that I learned of the demolition of my hometown’s Taco Bell last spring. It had been years since I’d been there and even longer since I’d done so without regret. It had, in fact, been almost a year since the franchise inside the outdated and increasingly
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Songs I Never Realized Were About Abortion Until Someone Explained Them To Me
Ancient Grains, Music
Jan 15, 2014
I never know when someone’s on drugs or had plastic surgery, or when a poem is supposed to “really” be about sex even though it’s clearly about plants. I never get metaphors. Everything always has to be explained to me, like Ax in the Animorphs series.
I can be counted on not to understand
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Watching Downton Abbey With An Historian: Part Two
Ancient Grains, History
Jan 15, 2014
Previous installments in this series can be found here. There will be spoilers. "An historian" is a perfectly acceptable Commonwealth convention, haters to the left [side of the road.]
The things that bother me most about Downton Abbey are not simply about historical accuracy. I think that historical accuracy is a complicated
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What Amy Tan, Misandrist Hero, Has For Breakfast
Ancient Grains, Misandry
Jan 15, 2014
Last night, while ensconced in my car, I caught the last twenty minutes of an NPR interview with Amy Tan from this last December. Friends, I thought I knew Amy Tan. I knew Amy Tan, beloved and bestselling novelist. I knew Amy Tan, prominent sufferer of
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Wicked: Haters to the Left, Please
Ancient Grains, Feminism
Jan 15, 2014
When I was fourteen, basically the greatest way to spend an afternoon was to turn the volume all the way up on my CD player (so vintage) and dance and sing along to the cast recording of Wicked. I did this for hours. I had that CD memorized. I even had blocking
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