Ancient Grains Archive
Misadventures in Halloween Costumes: Searching for a Feminist Star Wars
Ancient Grains, Feminism
Oct 30, 2013
Every year, I get really excited about my Halloween costume. I don’t even have a good excuse for wearing a costume on Halloween. I’m 31 years old. I don’t have a list of parties to go to, and I don’t have any kids. I could greet trick-or-treaters in jeans and a t-shirt,
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Goths These Days: The Commercialization of a Once Proud Holiday
Ancient Grains, Fashion
Oct 30, 2013
Skeletons in your local pharmacy. Bad horror remakes on TV. “This Is My Costume” t-shirts at Hot Topic. Let’s face it: the only thing scary about Halloween these days is how commercial it’s gotten. When will goths rise up and take back our holiday?
These days, a plague of indifference has consumed the
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Text Messages From a Jack-O-Lantern
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Oct 30, 2013
Previously, once: Text Messages From a Ghost.
October 21
hi
hi i hope im not waking you
but did you mean to blow out the candle just now
sorry who's this
im outside
on the porch
i just
i wasn't sure if you meant to blow
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Promiser’s Remorse: Fairy Tales’ Worst ROIs
Ancient Grains, Folklore
Oct 29, 2013
Should you ever find yourself in a fairy tale, try your very best not to become a merchant (tailors and traveling soldiers usually have better luck). Should you find becoming a merchant unavoidable, avoid having any daughters. Should daughters arise despite your most strenuous efforts, never bring them any gifts when you
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Texts From Emma
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Oct 29, 2013
darling Emma
have you seen our friend Mr. Martin?
he was to take me to tea this afternoon but he isn't here
oh Harriet!
do you really still like him??
oh
I did
yes
i told him you were not virtuous
and i think that got rid of him
i didn't think you still liked him
you wouldn't have liked him for much
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Emily Books Book Club: Meaty
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 29, 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! This month, Emily and I read and discussed Samantha Irby’s Meaty, which you can learn more about purchasing here.
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Prince George and the Newspapers
Ancient Grains, History
Oct 29, 2013
A few Minutes after Seven this Morning, her Majesty was most happily brought to Bed of a Prince, to the great Joy of every Lover of Great Britain.Thursday the servant maid of an eminent tradesman in Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, was committed to New Prison, Clerkenwell, for robbing her master of ...Read More
Questions I Could Ask Google But Am Asking You Instead
Advice, Ancient Grains
Oct 29, 2013
Why is it so much easier to blow out a candle if I put my hand a few inches behind the flame?
Why do I find giant squid so disappointing? I know they're giant, yes, and I'm sure I'd be awfully frightened if one ever swam past me in the morning bath, but why
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