Ancient Grains Archive
Official Toast Stances: Volume Four
Ancient Grains, Business
Dec 11, 2013
If you do not like the things we approve of, we suggest you revisit your stance. You are still allowed to like and/or engage in the things we dis-approve of, you are just wrong. Previous installments can be found here. – Eds.
The Toast Approves of the Following Things:
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Shirley Jackson Reviews Bed & Breakfasts
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 10, 2013
We Have Always Stayed At The Sandcastle Inn
"I could live there all alone. Behind the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant
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Shouty Wisdom
Ancient Grains, Loose Threads
Dec 10, 2013
One of my best friends and I both have mind-numbing desk jobs.
In order to survive said desk jobs, we spend most of our days Facebook chatting with each other. We use all-caps far more than is probably necessary. Our conversations very often veer into highly bizarre territory. Sometimes it's fiction, sometimes it's commentary, and
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Turning Poetry Into Math: T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” Translated Into Symbolic Logic
Ancient Grains, Poetry
Dec 10, 2013
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow
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Tim Meadows Is An Underrated Genius And I Love Him
Ancient Grains, Humor
Dec 10, 2013
Exhibit the first: all of his drug scenes from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
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The First Six Sherlock Episodes, Ranked
Ancient Grains, Beauty
Dec 10, 2013
Positions #6-4 were a doddle. And then...it became necessary to enter my mind palace.
Obviously, there are going to be spoilers.
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Falling Without Getting Hurt: Adventures in Disability
Ancient Grains, Writing
Dec 10, 2013
I just fell, hard. I was halfway home from a friend’s house when I realized I had left my phone there; ten minutes later, I was jumping out of my car in front of their house. I started to jog inside when my foot slipped on something, and I was down for
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Scientists Have Learned Nothing From Jurassic Park, Have Damned Us All
Ancient Grains, Animals
Dec 10, 2013
The most important part of yesterday's story about the brand new cold-loving cockroaches of New York City is the discovery that scientists have learned nothing from Jurassic Park and will damn us all with their hubris and lack of foresight.
The likelihood that the new species will mate with ...Read More