Ancient Grains Archive
Let Me Help You With Technology
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 28, 2013
In which Nicole gamely attempts to help Toast readers with some functionality stuff, and provides you an opportunity to bring other technology-related weirdness to our collective attention.
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Taylor Swift and My Mom
Ancient Grains, Music
Oct 28, 2013
Taylor Swift's "Twenty-Two" is maybe the blandest song to ever have been generated by a pop-country songwriting machine. For those who aren't familiar, a copy can be found here. (For those who are unfamiliar and at work, it recounts the bland-but-accessible adventures of "ditch[ing] this whole
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A Chat With A Green and A White Witch
Ancient Grains, Fan Fiction
Oct 28, 2013
A small, white room, with a merry, crackling fire in the center. The fire appears to rest upon nothing in particular, while consuming only itself. There are two empty chairs: one is silver, and one is white. Next to the silver chair is a small mandolin.
Although there is no door, a WOMAN
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Name That Book: The Return
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 28, 2013
'tis the season for us to crowdsource our hazy childhood book memories. Do you have a vague recollection of reading a great book, but you can't quite place the title or author? I'll start us off.
I've done this once before, but I have two new
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“Chicken Lady,” Kids in the Hall
Ancient Grains, Television
Oct 28, 2013
Chicken Lady Loves Life. Today's KITH Monday is oddly and pointlessly dedicated to the late, great Lou Reed.
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Toast Points: The Week of Oct. 25th, 2013
Ancient Grains, Meta
Oct 25, 2013
On Monday, your spirit animal got tired of listening to you and Lady Godiva messed you up. Did we mention Jaya was an adorable biracial toddler?
Tuesday, Jessica Valenti got brave and personal with us, we talked shop, spent twelve days in jail for no goddamn reason,
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The Hall of Rejected Selfies
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Oct 25, 2013
They're all here, every one.
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Food Trolling With Mallory: Chipotle Is Monstrous
Ancient Grains, Food
Oct 25, 2013
There is a disturbing and pernicious mass delusion floating about that the Chipotle restaurant chain is a good place to get food -- that customers should go out of their way to get more of Chipotle's food from Chipotle -- that maximizing the amount of Chipotle-borne roughage inside
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