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Modern Farmer has an incredible piece by an undocumented farm worker, the first in a series:
The work is hard — but many jobs are ...Read More
Ancient Grains Archive
Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Nov 07, 2013
The world has lost a great milliner and a cool lady.
Watching Awful Gay Movies With Autostraddle: Lost and Delirious
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Nov 06, 2013
You were promised an intense and fevered discussion of bad gay movies; now you shall reap the whirlwind. We begin with 2001's Lost and Delirious, a truly terrible movie about girls falling in love at the world's least carefully monitored boarding school. First, let us meet the cast of characters. Myself and
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A Very Important Question About Redwall
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 06, 2013
A follow-up question to yesterday's post about alternate worlds with sentient animals: is the Redwall universe coterminous with our own? That is to say, do humans exist somewhere near Mossflower County? Are the scattered animal strongholds of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey more like the Shire in Middle-Earth, which is populated exclusively by non-humans
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Three Poems
Ancient Grains, Poetry
Nov 06, 2013
You Can Take It In Spades
At the blood donation center
I am my most brave self and it is early early,
but I’ve been up for a while. I had to eat
breakfast, a strange undertaking. I stood
over the sink chewing a chunk of baguette
that did not want to go down.
Remember when I bet you
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Almost Asatru, or “I was into Loki before he was cool”
Ancient Grains, Movies
Nov 06, 2013
Even after shedding the trappings of my childhood religion and becoming functionally atheist, certain events can still inspire religious fear or guilt. For example, not attending sunrise services on Easter will sometimes suckerpunch me with guilt -- who am I to buck 2,000 years of tradition just to sleep in? A friend
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Study Finds Ice Caps Very Normal, No Need To Come Visit
Ancient Grains, science
Nov 06, 2013
Scientists, who should know, would like to report after years of exhaustive study that all of the ice is fine and there's no need for you to come see for yourself. Don't come to where the ice is. Don't come to where the north ice is, don't come to where the south
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Don’t Call It a Comeback: Renata Adler, Back in Print
Ancient Grains, Books
Nov 06, 2013
Renata Adler's Speedboat (Amazon | NYRB Classics) chronicles the misadventures of a student at a woman's college who (illegally) owns an alligator, the Celtic knot of French wait-in-this-line-to-wait-in-this-line bureaucracy, a speedboat journey that leads to a broken back, and the inability of bougie
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Alternate NaNoWriMo Taglines
Ancient Grains, Writing
Nov 06, 2013
Once again inspired by Friend of The Toast Emily Gould. (Previously: Male Novelist Jokes.)
National Novel Writing Month
November 1-30 | "NaNoWriMo: The world needs your novel."
National Novel Writing Month
November 1-30 | "NaNoWriMo: They're all gonna
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