Ancient Grains Archive
To Kill A Mockingbird in Blackface: Sometimes Being a Woman of Colour in School Never Seems to Get Any Better
Ancient Grains, Books, Racism
Oct 16, 2013
The first time I was involved in a fight about racism at school, I was so young my mom was still gently introducing me to the concept as a permanent fixture in my life. It was sometime in my early elementary years when I came home from school singing “Jimmy Crack Corn”
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Early Signs of Pregnancy
Ancient Grains, Health
Oct 16, 2013
Mild to moderate telekinesis
Occasional skin leakage
Shadow loss
Pearls or roses falling from mouth during speech
Reverse fingernails
Occasional resistance to thermodynamics
Breasts disappear
Precognition (for restaurant lunch specials only)
Total memory loss
Lung fossilization
Sudden-Onset Unexplained Eye Syndrome
Partial memory loss
Sound allergy
Total memory awareness
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Patina Miller Appreciation Time
Ancient Grains, Magic
Oct 16, 2013
Let's all take a few minutes out of what is sure to be a busy day to appreciate that we were born into the historical era with unprecedented levels of Patina Miller access.
First: from 2008, her performance of "The Temp and the Receptionist" with Anderson Davis. Anderson Davis personifies "terrified determination"
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Wednesday Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Oct 16, 2013
"When men read Mary Gaitskill, their boners deflate."
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NDB, but Sondheim is updating "Company" to make Bobby the gay man he always should have been and he's cast DANIEL EVANS, who ...Read More
Merch
Ancient Grains, Writing
Oct 15, 2013
I. Cleveland
Here are some of the things that Megan sells at her job:
Breeze Machine T-shirts.
Breeze Machine hooded sweatshirts.
Breeze Machine stickers (three for five dollars).
Breeze Machine's first album on vinyl.
Breeze Machine's newest album on compact disc and vinyl.
Breeze Machine wristbands (for irony, she assumes. They sell well but she's never seen anyone wearing
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Which Singer Craves His Freedom Most?
Ancient Grains, Music
Oct 15, 2013
Previously: Which girl is most like a child?
Related: All the words.
Some men are born on the road. Some men die there. Some men cannot be held down, for they will melt through your fingers and reassemble several yards away. These men are powerful witches and
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Why the Wikipedia Page for George Burns Is Perfect
Ancient Grains, Movies
Oct 15, 2013
Literally everything in this post is a direct quotation from the version of George Burns' Wikipedia page which existed on Monday, October 14th, 2013, which is a work of singular beauty and charm and should be preserved in carbonite for all time, like George Burns himself.
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Male Gamers Only
Ancient Grains, Video Games
Oct 15, 2013
The ruins of the Tormented Necropolis were charred and smoking. The limp, motionless bodies of the Quicksilver Companions littered the landscape, bristling with arrows, many of which were being methodically and efficiently removed by the Night Dwarves. Each arrow gave up its place in their flesh reluctantly with a loud thunk.
The Night Dwarves
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