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"Why I Only Read Books By Women in 2013"
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I am here to talk about Six By Sondheim, and I hope ...Read More
Ancient Grains Archive
Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Dec 13, 2013
icebergmama made this picture for me, what did the rest of you accomplish?
Some Pros and Cons of Organizing Your Bookshelves by Color
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 12, 2013
PROS:
1. Your bookshelves will be truly and undeniably beautiful. (See image).
2. The process of color-coding your bookshelves will take many enjoyable hours, in which you will find yourself faced with questions that are at once banal and delightful. Will you employ a ROY G BIV scheme? If so, where will you put
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Celebrities We Lost In 2013
Ancient Grains, Humor
Dec 12, 2013
In Memoriam of the Celebrities We Lost This Year:
Bradley Cooper, let go of our hand in a Kroger's parking lot, got separated in the confusion.
Blake Shelton, disappeared from his post as a lighthouse keeper, along with three other men on duty, leaving behind all of their equipment and a completely set dinner
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Tools For an Amicable Divorce
Ancient Grains, Relationships
Dec 12, 2013
Ideally you should begin this process approximately ten years before you plan to get divorced by meeting the best person you have ever known and marrying them. If you plan to get divorced in less than ten years, don’t worry! Many have accomplished this work on an accelerated schedule.
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A Movie With Tilda Swinton As a Semen-Powered Robot
Ancient Grains, LGBT, Movies
Dec 12, 2013
There was a sort of romanticism about technology in the 1990s and early 2000s that I kind of miss. Computers and the Internet were still a new enough thing that we treated them a little like actual, real magic. Putting the word “virtual” in front of something made it seem vastly more
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The Dropout Rate of Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Praxeum Concerns Me
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 12, 2013
Previously: The Many Future Mrs. Skywalkers.
It is a time of tranquillity for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. Yesterday’s Rebels have become today’s administrators and diplomats,
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Dealing Drugs And Getting Arrested in a Milton Friedman Fantasy World
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Dec 12, 2013
I’d like to think I got into selling pot with the best of intentions. I was a freshman in college and one of my friends had some weed he needed to sell to buy his books. Seeing as how it was at least a step closer to the right thing--he’d stolen his
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Merry Christmas From Chris Kimball
Ancient Grains, Food
Dec 12, 2013
Previously: Happy Halloween and Someone's gone missing.
Each issue of Cook’s Illustrated begins with a folksy letter with news from down on the old Vermont farm by founder and editor-in-chief Chris Kimball. These charming, old-timey updates remind us all of a slower, simpler way of life, where
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