Ancient Grains Archive
I Once Explained Steampunk To Sam Shepard
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 01, 2013
On a spur-of-the-moment decision to travel with a posse of graduate students, my advisor invited my friend and I to an odd think-tank-type meeting at the Santa Fe Institute. The whole weekend consisted of a series of surreal conversations in which biologists, computer scientists, and humanists (us) attempted to figure out if
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Tips For Libertarians On the Day of the Government Shutdown
Ancient Grains, Politics
Oct 01, 2013
Keep hydrated. A good rule of thumb is to make sure you're drinking eight ounces of water, tea or juice every couple of hours.
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Eat a healthy, nourishing breakfast. You're going to need a lot of
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If You Must: Spaghetti Squash and Meatballs
Ancient Grains, Food
Oct 01, 2013
Lady: "Wait, is there squash in this?"
Tramp: "Whatever, princess."
First up, let's just get this out of the way: spaghetti squash is not pasta. It is never going to be pasta. No one will be fooled. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have a place in your kitchen.
Me, I've been tinkering away
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On Latkes and Legacies
Ancient Grains, Family, Writing
Oct 01, 2013
The story of how my family acquired Old World recipes for Ashkenazi cuisine is a rape story – but it takes a bit of digging to figure that out. They don’t talk about it. The ones who are left alive to tell it, anyway, the old ones. And we, the young ones,
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Texts From Edgar Allan Poe
Ancient Grains, Texts From
Oct 01, 2013
hey
where are you?
hi
where are you?
you’re like two hours late
it’s almost midnight
i can’t get out of the house right now
is your car blocked?
do you need a ride?
no
it’s like
there’s this bird
there’s a bird on your car?
no he’s sitting on my statue
it’s like
mm it just keeps looking at me
got those fiery bird
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What Is the Worst Television Show?
Ancient Grains, Television
Oct 01, 2013
As someone who watches...three to four hours of television a day, it's hard for me to acknowledge that any television is bad television: I watched every single episode of Suddenly Susan. But, obviously, some television is terrible, even if we are confining ourselves to, say, sitcoms and dramas, and not taking into
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Emily Books Book Club: The October Selection
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 30, 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!
I was DELIGHTED to hear that the newest offering from Emily Books was
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A Meeting Between Elizabeth Wurtzel and Jonathan Franzen
Ancient Grains, Friendship
Sep 30, 2013
For reference.
"Excuse me," he asked quietly, "Is this seat taken?" She looked up, lusciously, from the New York Times (but in German) and blinked, still lusciously, before smiling.
"No, please go ahead." He sat down and smiled back.
"So," he said, "is the coffee any good here?"
She let the Times (still in
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