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A pretty fun critique of my second-favourite holiday movie:Despite [National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation's] intended ...Read More
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Dec 03, 2013
This is cheating, but here's the most recent Dad Magazine, in case you missed it while eating. This, and the next installment, were sponsored by A Very Generous Reader.
Emily Books Book Club: The December Selection
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 02, 2013
If you are not familiar with the Emily Books Book Club, or simply have that condition where you struggle to form short-term memories, you may click here. Maybe you already did! We skipped November because of a) laziness, and b) Middlemarch. But now we're here to read, and we're can't stop.
This month,
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Your Compulsive Need To Correct Everyone Has Finally Resulted In Becoming Universally Beloved
Ancient Grains, Relationships
Dec 02, 2013
Good news! Your compulsive need to correct everyone has finally resulted in becoming universally beloved!
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The Amazonian Fire Ant Witch-Balls That Cannot Die
Ancient Grains, Animals
Dec 02, 2013
I have been accused, sometimes on this very site, of having an excessively morbid cast of mind, but you must admit that it is not my fault that this world is a breathing, pulsing carnival of roiling horrors. I did not invent ants. I am not responsible for them, nor for the fact that
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Our Middlemarch Book Club: Part One
Ancient Grains, Books
Dec 02, 2013
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.
So, I very nicely requested that everyone (who has any interest in doing so)
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In Defense of the Middle-Aged Music Fan
Ancient Grains, Music
Dec 02, 2013
So you’re a twenty-three year old guitar genius whose band is finally making a name for itself, not to mention some money after too many years of subsisting on Top Ramen, PBR, and a prayer. You’re ready to reap the rewards of being fresh and sexy, and harvest the nubile adoration that
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A Slideshow Of Different Animals Who Are Not Friends And Have Never Met
Ancient Grains, Animals
Dec 02, 2013
Here's a look at the most likely of animal interactions -- those that hew closely to predictable predator/prey relationships. As you might expect, the majority of these animals have never met and have no particular bond with one another, although we can guess that if they were to ever meet, their reactions
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“Texts From,” The Book
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Dec 02, 2013
Would you like to read a book with your best friends William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson and Lord Byron and William Blake and T.S. Eliot? How fortunate for you that this dream will soon become a reality. Thanks to the combined and industrious efforts of Kate
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