Ancient Grains Archive
An Interview With Jesmyn Ward
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Nov 19, 2013
Men We Reaped, by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, is a book about how place and home can shape lives indelibly. This memoir is a story of a grief so profound because those being grieved were cherished so keenly. It is a remembrance of five
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Girl Tips #3
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Nov 19, 2013
Previously: Girl Tips #2.
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What I’ve Learned
Ancient Grains, Writing
Nov 19, 2013
Previously: Gorgeous ex-boyfriends, the LA rental market, and auditions.
What I've Learned: Men away from home at trade conventions...are awful. I thought about making that sentence less definitive, like saying "can be awful," but no. I said it right. They are awful.
In college, I was a cocktail waitress at the Blue Max
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Scientific Questions About Animorphs
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 19, 2013
I was going to ask these questions to my brother, who is a scientist and also used to read Animorphs with me when we were kids, but he only answered some of them before going to bed, so I turn to you, the good people of the
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 19, 2013
An intensely entertaining Reddit thread by former groupies on their best conquests. I mean, entertaining to me.
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Everyone would like to be Joan Didion sitting on the floor while Ray Manzarek tools around on the keyboard. Everyone ...Read More
Characters in Zelda: Ocarina of Time Who Hate Their Jobs
Ancient Grains, Video Games
Nov 18, 2013
The Bombchu Bowling Alley Operator
"zzzzz...zzzzz... Huh? Wha--! Uh-oh! A customer!"
Granny
"Granny's Potion Shop
Closed
Gone for Field Study
Please come again!
—Granny"
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Engagement Chicken: A Short Story
Ancient Grains, Writing
Nov 18, 2013
Elyse had a wedding to go to, and she needed clean underwear. She flipped through Glamour as she waited for her clothes to dry. The dryer cost a quarter for every 8-minute increment, and Elyse was trying to be better about not wasting money. So, after letting the dryer run for an
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Magic: The Gathering and Me
Ancient Grains, Friendship
Nov 18, 2013
In the course of my life, I have ponied up at least $3000 on the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Possibly much more--the room I grew up in has thousands upon thousands upon thousands of cards, neatly and recently sorted into white boxes designed for the express purpose of card housing. But
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