Ancient Grains Archive
Disney To Rip Out Star Wars EU Continuity “Like A Tumor”
Ancient Grains, Movies
Jan 13, 2014
There is a fervent -- yet, to my mind, deeply misguided -- young man at Ars Technica who has written an op-ed rejoicing at the news that Disney will be axing the majority of the Star Wars EU continuity titled, accurately enough, "Op-ed: Disney takes a
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Coming Out as Biracial
Ancient Grains, Family
Jan 13, 2014
This post originally appeared on Medium.
A few months ago, I not-so-subtly asserted myself as biracial while having dinner with a new coworker. “I’m a Capricorn,” she’d said. “Yeah...my mom’s black,” I responded (not verbatim, but the exchange was similar). Whoa. What? Immediately after I injected that
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A Young Man’s History of Doctor Who in 11 Photographs
Ancient Grains, Television
Jan 13, 2014
Shaw, our stalwart young lad, is in first grade. He is the son of a lifelong Doctor Who nerd. Despite never having seen the show himself, Shaw decided to dress like each (pre-Capaldi) Doctor over the course of eleven days. He utilized whatever he could find in his wardrobe to create the
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Kids in the Hall Monday: Decaf
Ancient Grains, Television
Jan 13, 2014
Oh God, oh God, Nicole let me do this week's Kids in the Hall Monday and I have SEVERE performance anxiety. We haven't done Ham of Truth or 30 Helens or These Are The Daves I Know or Hotel La Rut or any of the Buddy Cole monologues or even Mr. Stevenson (Mr. Stevenson!).
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Toast Points: The Week of Jan. 10th, 2014
Ancient Grains, Meta
Jan 10, 2014
Just go read What Would Yellow Ranger Do? again.
Oh. I should say more things.
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Femslash Friday: How I Met Your Mother
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Jan 10, 2014
Let’s begin with a disclaimer: I love Marshall Erikson and I only want good things for him.
You can’t discount Marshall Erikson and Lily Aldrin’s two decades of history with a simple handwave when it comes to the How I Met Your Mother-verse. They have one of the healthier, happier marriages currently airing
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Cocktail Hour: Open Thread
Ancient Grains, Open Thread
Jan 10, 2014
Toasties, sometimes you just have to eat and drink what your heart desires, and if that happens to be Montepulciano with stinky kimchee? So be it.
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She Said, She Said: Advice on Relationship Inertia and Past Badness
Advice, Ancient Grains
Jan 10, 2014
Previous installments of The Toast’s advice column from two disparate and imperfect persons can be found here. Last time: Advice About Dating Ladies and Having a Bad Sister.
How do you know when it's time to break up with someone? I've never had to so I don't know. Like if you've been with
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