Ancient Grains Archive
Talking About Passing
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 10, 2013
Now that you've gotten your hot little hands on a copy of Nella Larsen's Passing (You did, didn't you? If you didn't, you are excused from class with my blessing), it is time for us to go on and on about it until someone turns the lights off and lets us know that
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Running a Vintage Shop Without Losing Your Mind
Advice, Ancient Grains, Fashion
Oct 10, 2013
My love of vintage clothing did not begin gradually. It started with a dress: a perfect 1950s party dress, made of heavy black-and-pink silk, with a row of tiny buttons down the front. It was $15 at Value Village, it was exactly my size, and I knew when I found it that
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Texts From The Outsiders
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Oct 10, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
hey how do you pronounce “Soc”
What?
i mean is it like “sock”
because it looks like that’s how you’d say it
but in my head I think of it as being pronounced “soash”
huh
like rhymes with cloche
I guess that makes sense
why do I even know
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Sing to Us of Your Bad Gay Movies
Ancient Grains, LGBT, Movies
Oct 10, 2013
There are gay movies like Pariah and Desert Hearts that are painful, transformative works of art; there are gay movies like Imagine Me & You and But I'm A Cheerleader and The Incredibly True Adventures of 2 Girls in Love that are flawed or occasionally cheesy but still delightful; and then there are gay movies like Latter Days and Kissing
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WAKE UP: ALICE MUNRO HAS WON THE NOBEL PRIZE
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 10, 2013
It's real! It happened! My phone blew up very very early in Utah time! Take the day off! Hug your mom! Revel in the tears of men!
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M. Evelyn McCormick and the Women Artists of Monterey
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Oct 09, 2013
An impressive group of female artists were drawn to Carmel, Pacific Grove, and Monterey around the turn of the last century. M. Evelyn McCormick (1862-1948) was a major talent and a leader among them. These painters came primarily because of the striking beauty of the area, but the local welcoming attitude toward
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Christian Summer Camp and A Girl With Her Own Point of View
Ancient Grains, Writing
Oct 09, 2013
He said he liked my shoes – black Chuck Taylor high tops, neon pink trim. Our first assignment was to do a profile on another student. We'd chosen each other. I liked his blue eyes, dark hair, Ken-doll perfect face, but in my profile I wrote about his academic achievements. In
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The Office Is Not Too Cold; It Is You Who Are Too Weak
Ancient Grains, Work
Oct 09, 2013
To: All third-floor employees
Date: Oct. 9, 8:00 AM PDT
Subject: Thermostat
Dear employees,
Recently we have received a number of complaints about the temperature settings on the third floor. Normally this would not be a matter that would be brought to my attention, but reports have reached my ears of a war brewing between you, of covert late-night
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