Ancient Grains Archive
Bollocks
Ancient Grains, Writing
Oct 11, 2013
The railroad is dead. Its dried-up bones lie rusting beneath a California sun in the dusty rockhills of Riverside. A screech and a clank from another time breathes life into its dry bones and a ghostly cart and a cart and a cart passes by. We are sitting in a restaurant. Ours.
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Femslash Friday: Mellie/Olivia Forever
Ancient Grains, LGBT, Television
Oct 11, 2013
Listen, just because we had a little too much lesbian separatism in the '70s doesn't mean we shouldn't have any now. For too long now has the word "slash" been used to exclusively refer to a set of pallid, languorous white-blonde youths semi-closetedly making out under the bleachers, and as much as
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Sailor Jupiter, Gender Expression and Me
Ancient Grains, LGBT
Oct 11, 2013
“Sailor Moon is not a good show,” I said to my partner some weeks back. “I mean — I don’t know if it’s a good show. I haven’t seen it since I was sixteen. I have no idea if it holds up.”
“That’s fine,” she said.
“No, listen. It’s badly animated, and formulaic, and
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Watkins Ale: A Really Dirty Song From the English Renaissance
Ancient Grains, History
Oct 11, 2013
This is maybe the most beautiful and sprightly song about male ejaculate ever written, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Thirteen Ways of Pitching to The Toast
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Oct 10, 2013
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Hello, my name is Cleo and I am in hopes that you are having a good day? I am seeing your article about women apologizing for not knowing how to pitch but pitching anyway and possibly for existing? Because I have followed you from The Hairpin to The Toast and The Twitter
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Revisiting Ever After
Ancient Grains, Movies
Oct 10, 2013
Ever After: A Drew Barrymore Jawn has a complicated relationship with my brain and my heart. The year it came out, I was 12 years old with a dedicated subscription to Seventeen and its monthly updates on what all the cool public school kids were wearing while me and my Catholic school uniform looked on
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Who Is Alice Munro, And Why Should You Care?
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 10, 2013
In case you missed it (you didn't, I just want to keep typing it over and over again), the great Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Let me explain why I am suffused with joy, and then I will share the reactions of
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Stars: They’re Just Like Me
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 10, 2013
I am a celebrity magnet. They keep finding me, lured by something deep within my DNA that makes them want to revolve for one fleeting moment in my orbit. Obviously, I provide some sort of validation of their worth. Maybe they see in me a reflection of their dreams and desires, what
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