Ancient Grains Archive
Your Ability to Can Even: A Defense of Internet Linguistics
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 20, 2013
The first time I consciously realized that there was something unique about how we speak on the Internet was when a friend’s post popped up on my newsfeed. It was a link to something awesome and it was captioned: “I have lost all ability to can.”
I’ll be honest. I don’t remember what
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Texts From Cormac McCarthy
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Nov 20, 2013
just got here
saving you a table
hey
you on your way?
hey
are you coming?
You forget what you want to remember
and you remember what you want to forget
look
it's fine if you can't make it
it's just people are starting to head home
but if you're on your way
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave
oh
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Love in Colour: Multicultural and Interracial Romance Novels
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 20, 2013
Previously: bad sex in romance novels.
In romance novels, it seems easier for a person of colour to get a date with a were-lion than with a non-shifting human being. I guess if a reader is down with leonine loving, then stories featuring sex with Asian people aren’t so scary.
Here’s the crux:
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Restaurant Reviews From Jimmy Stewart’s Character At the End of It’s A Wonderful Life
Ancient Grains, Food
Nov 20, 2013
Shalom Japan, 310 S. 4th St.
[Grabs you by the lapels] "Listen, mister, you've gotta -- well, well sit down, here, now, make yourself comfortable, I've got to tell you something -- listen, there's this little place in New York City, name of Shalom Japan -- can you beat that? Shalom Japan -- and it's just
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Official Toast Stances: Volume Three
Ancient Grains, Business
Nov 20, 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:
1. Key & Peele
2. Thanksgiving starches,
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The False Housewives of Atlanta
Ancient Grains, Folklore
Nov 19, 2013
Coming to Bravo this fall: The False Housewives of Atlanta. Watch these shapeshifters ensorcell men and captivate their haters after trapping the true housewives under sea and under stone.
The series delves into the lives of six monstrous witches impersonating women from Atlanta’s social elite. Juggling families, careers, magickal imprisonment, and jam-packed social
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The Cross-Dressing Reenactors of Gettysburg
Ancient Grains, History
Nov 19, 2013
Previously: Part I.
On August 3rd, 1862, a nineteen-year-old Irish immigrant named Jennie Hodgers joined the ranks of the 95th Illinois Infantry, successfully passing for a man during a physical examination in which she only had to show her hands and feet. For the next three years, she served as Pvt. ...Read More
Theme Songs That Read Alternately Cheerful and Terrifying
Ancient Grains, Television
Nov 19, 2013
Come and knock on our door
We've been waiting for you
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