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Ancient Grains Archive
Toast Points: The Week of September 27th, 2013
Ancient Grains, Meta
Sep 27, 2013
On Monday, we endorsed banning or burning books. For doing something weird to our face, we received a medal. Then we read a work of short fiction, like adults.
On Tuesday, nothing else mattered except Misandrist Lullabies:
How To Meet People
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Sep 27, 2013
Socially: I assume this is possible? You hear things. And if you've ever been to a bar, you've seen them: groups of charming, attractive people, mingling together with cocktails in hand, laughing with their whole faces. Sometimes there's touching. They order strange drinks.
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A Conversation With Meagan Hatcher-Mays About The “Baby Veronica” Case
Ancient Grains, Interviews
Sep 27, 2013
Back in April, law student/author/friend to The Toast Meagan Hatcher-Mays wrote an article about the Baby Veronica case, which had just then reached the Supreme Court. The response she received was overwhelming. We asked if we could speak with her
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She Said, She Said: Advice About Nails and Aisle-Walking
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 27, 2013
Previous installments of The Toast’s newly-renamed (thanks, Adrienne!) advice column from two disparate and imperfect persons can be found here. Last time: Job Dilemmas.
Okay, so I know we're all disgusting meat bags, and that's cool, but I am hoping for some advice on being slightly less disgusting. In the past
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Food Trolling With Mallory: Nuts To You
Ancient Grains, Food
Sep 27, 2013
Previously: apples are terrible.
Something that seems intrinsic to the human condition is the need to periodically create slideshows of healthy snacks. I do not know why this is the case, but the same eight fistfuls of food regularly make the Internet rounds at least a few times a year. You and
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The Mindy Project, or We Need to Talk About Rev. Casey
Ancient Grains, Television
Sep 27, 2013
Do you watch The Mindy Project? I do. I love Mindy Kaling (who is not a Republican) and Chris Messina, and I overlook the show's flaws for those two reasons. But there's a big problem, and that problem is Mindy's on-again-off-again boyfriend, who is very clearly a serial killer.
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Step Out Of The Car, Please: Rolling Blackouts
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Sep 26, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
The second time I blacked out I was nineteen, back in Kentucky for winter break of my freshman year, and discovering the true meaning of homesickness. What began in my friend’s UK dorm room with whiskey and ABBA karaoke ended with me ...Read More
Everybody Go Buy Nella Larsen’s Passing Right Now
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 26, 2013
Hello. So the last time we talked about a book I'm crazy about, half the fun was missing because none of you got fair warning. Most of the comments were "I really want to read this book now," not "Here is a nineteen-page essay I wrote about Obinze," which is what
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