Ancient Grains Archive
Our Middlemarch Book Club: Part Three
Ancient Grains, Books
Jan 06, 2014
If you’ve somehow missed being hounded by me to read (first) Middlemarch and (in the New Year) My Life in Middlemarch, you can catch up here.
I am sure you have all dutifully read to the end of Volume 7? It's a very long
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Predicting Human Behavior With 100% Accuracy: Misgender a Cat
Ancient Grains, Animals
Jan 06, 2014
Few things in life are certain, but there is one area of human behavior I fancy myself something of an expert -- in fact, I rate my own judgment in this area so highly that I can confidently claim to predict the response of every conscious being with 100% accuracy, should you
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Joan Baez’s Weird and Wonderful Wardrobe
Ancient Grains, Music
Jan 06, 2014
Joan Baez’s memoir, And A Voice To Sing With, is far more of a tell-all than most musicians’ memoirs. While Bob Dylan’s Chronicles is mostly about Woody Guthrie and antique shopping in the 1980s, And A Voice To Sing With tells you, if anything, too much
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Adaptational Discrepancies Between 1998′s “Brink!” and Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
Ancient Grains, Books
Jan 06, 2014
1. Instead of dreaming to someday win the Silver Skates in the great December ice-skating race, Andy Brinker hopes to earn 200 dollars a week by joining Team X-Bladz.
2. While Hans' father Raff is ill and unable to work due to a head injury sustained from working on the canals of Amsterdam,
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Food Trolling With Ren: The Case Against Kale
Ancient Grains, Food
Jan 06, 2014
"Wait until I make you one of my delicious kale smoothies," someone wrote on the Google doc our group of volunteers had filled out so we could take turns delivering food to an acquaintance in the hospital. Of course a person having a major health crisis lying in a sickbed is the
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Stages of Moral Development in Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville”
Ancient Grains, Music
Jan 06, 2014
"The theory holds that moral reasoning, the basis for ethical behavior, has six identifiable developmental stages, each more adequate at responding to moral dilemmas than its predecessor." - Kohlberg's stages of moral development
"Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat." - Jimmy Buffett
1. No VOP: only self and the
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This Is an Irresponsible Ad for a Snowboard
Ancient Grains, The Great Outdoors
Jan 06, 2014
Oh, man, if you want to improve the reputation of snowboarders, suggesting (even in jest) that you should be going 75+ miles an hour and crushing people who have stopped on the slope to wait for a friend to catch up is really not a good
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“Steps: Gay Marriage,” Kids in the Hall
Ancient Grains, Television
Jan 06, 2014
It's not like Buddy Cole and the "Steps" crew were groundbreaking queer theorists, but they normalized the shit out of gayness for a lot of Canadians.
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