Ancient Grains Archive
The Real Power of The Home Depot
Ancient Grains, Humor
Sep 18, 2013
"More saving. More doing. That's the power of the Home Depot." You disgusting sheep. You cannot possibly begin to imagine the Home Depot's true power. You swarm in when the doors open, and you swarm out when the doors close, and you buy whatever the men in the orange aprons tell you
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Justice Scalia Yawns
Ancient Grains, Humor
Sep 18, 2013
“Elena Kagan revealed at the Aspen Ideas Festival that she recently joined her colleague Antonin Scalia on a friendly hunting trip—and even shot a deer... Scalia was not impressed: "She ended up killing a white-tailed doe," he has noted, "which she could have done in my driveway."
-Slate, July 2, 2013
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Trophies
Ancient Grains, Writing
Sep 18, 2013
"Trophy" is never a word people use to describe something that someone loves. Trophies are about possession and pride and objectification. Above all, trophies are seen and not heard. It’s for these reasons, and many others, that so many people chafe when they’re categorized as one. I should know. I’ve been the
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Yes, What Does The 99% Owe the 1%?
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 18, 2013
"All proper human interactions are win-win; that’s why the parties decide to engage in them. It’s not the Henry Fords and Steve Jobs who exploit people. It’s the Al Capones and Bernie Madoffs. Voluntary trade, without force or fraud, is the exchange of value for value,
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I Am Jack’s Tacky Red Leather Jacket: Fight Club Fashion
Ancient Grains, Loose Threads
Sep 18, 2013
Nobody loves their stuff as much as people who hate their stuff. Let me clarify: the people who place the greatest amount of thought, care, and effort into their stuff tend to be the people who are very seriously opposed to the concept of stuff. "It's a prison, man," they might say,
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Fictional Medieval People I Would Like To See Fall In Love
Ancient Grains, History
Sep 18, 2013
As you may have realized by this point, one of my favorite pastimes is creating imaginary relationships between people who may or may not actually exist inside of my head. This is my right and privilege as an American, and it fills me with great joy from morning
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The Other Nashville is Coming to the Criterion Collection
Ancient Grains, Movies
Sep 18, 2013
Meaning, of course, Robert Altman's glorious 1975 film (not the one with Julianne Moore naked, that's Short Cuts, not the one with war, that's M*A*S*H, not the one which is just Downton Abbey, that's Gosford Park.) Look for the shiny new edition in early December.
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A Partial But By No Means Exhaustive List of Egg References in the Works of P.G. Wodehouse
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 17, 2013
"He couldn't tell me anything I didn't know about the old boy's eccentricity. This Lord Worplesdon was Florence's father. He was the old buster who, a few years later, came down to breakfast one morning, lifted the first cover he saw, said 'Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! Damn all eggs!' in an overwrought sort of voice, and instantly
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