Ancient Grains Archive
Women Out Of Refrigerators: Coagula
Ancient Grains, Comics
Nov 14, 2013
I. A note on the title
Many of you are probably familiar with the idea spearheaded by Gail Simone of “women in refrigerators” in the comics industry. Simone and several others noticed that it really seemed like all the female characters in comics were coming to violent and often degrading ends. The name
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What Reverse Racism Should Really Mean
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Nov 14, 2013
Matt and Mallory have worked together before. Most recently: Gender Studies Students Explain Lesbianism.
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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 14, 2013
Ta-Nehisi Coates, while shutting downnnn Richard Cohen, linked back to an old post about a friend of his (Prince Jones) who was killed (murdered, to be more accurate) by the police, and it's really
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Why Aren’t We Talking About How Much Tim Curry and Dave Grohl Are The Same?
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Nov 13, 2013
Dave Grohl enters an empty classroom, his jacket hanging off a forefinger draped over one shoulder. He places one leg on a chair and leans in real close.
"Hi, I'm Dave Grohl. Here at the Foo Fighters, we like to joke around a lot. But today I'd like to talk about something that isn't
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Here Is a Thing to Do With Your Chicken Breasts
Ancient Grains, Food
Nov 13, 2013
So, yesterday we covered why boneless skinless chicken breasts are a boring, dry, overpriced nightmare. Today, we're going to talk about a nice, relaxing, date-night way to cook chicken breasts that have NOT been pruned of their delicious fatty essence, and it'll be great. I'll share some more mindless recipes for
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Most of the People Here Are Just Themselves in the Past
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Nov 13, 2013
“The real war will never get in the books.”
- Walt Whitman, Specimen Days
On the fifth of July, I got up early to lace my mom’s corset. She was 64 years old, and in a couple of hours, she would be standing in a field, washing laundry over a fire pit in a
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Love Between Giant Hams: Branagh, Whedon, and Much Ado About Nothing
Ancient Grains, Movies
Nov 13, 2013
For better and for worse, we’re living in an age of remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings. We absolutely should comment about the shortage of original material, but we can’t let the products of the remake machine go to waste. Everything we produce reflects something of our time and quality back at us, something
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Song Lyrics Improved By Cats
Ancient Grains, Animals
Nov 13, 2013
Almost certainly one of the silliest things I have ever done.
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