Ancient Grains Archive
Cut From Classics: Monstra March
Ancient Grains, Books
Sep 11, 2013
Cut from the Classics brings your favorite novels to life as never before. Each month we present a profile of a character who originally appeared in the first draft of a major work of fiction, but was subsequently cut from the final draft. This insight into each author’s process brings a
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Meet London’s “Death Ray” Architect
Ancient Grains, Design
Sep 11, 2013
Would you like to read an excellently sullen interview with a man who has designed a building that gets too hot and sets little bits of London on fire every day? You would? Excellent. Let us jump right in.
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Airplane! and The Unrepentant Sissy
Ancient Grains, Movies
Sep 11, 2013
Airplane! is one of my favorite movies. I am not an unreconstructed ZAZ fan; I think The Naked Gun is overrated and there are parts of Police Squad! that could have been improved upon, but Airplane! remains in my mind one of the most consistently funny movies of the last thirty years. You know how one
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Myths Surrounding Breakfast and Weight
Ancient Grains, Health
Sep 11, 2013
1. Eating breakfast helps you lose weight.
2. If you eat breakfast under a sycamore tree, you'll have good luck all year, and a little child will bring you lead things for your fishing rod whenever you need them.
3. If a rhinoceros serves you English muffins, saying
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The Magic Bullet Infomercial Is Actually About Swinging
Ancient Grains, Television
Sep 11, 2013
The setting and the characters are intimately familiar to you. A group of people who do not know one another very well assemble one by one in a cavernous, well-lit kitchen and slowly realize they're being taught about a small blender instead of getting breakfast.
A cheerful Londoner (Mick) and his overdressed wife
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Stupidly Easy Cookies
Ancient Grains, Food
Sep 11, 2013
Okay, you don't care, you just want some cookies. Or you have a kid, and he magically goes to a school that still lets you bring in unpackaged homemade baked goods, but you forgot, and he needs them in the morning, and your oven is broken.
Or, if you're me, you're just bad
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Texts From William Carlos Williams
Ancient Grains, Books, Texts From
Sep 11, 2013
Previous entries in the series can be found here.
i have eaten everything
that was in the icebox
you should probably go to the store again.
-wcw
i have eaten the little red wheelbarrow
that was in the icebox
and upon which so much depended
forgive me
i don't even know why i did that
i guess i thought it was
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Always Emerging, Never Arriving: The Middle Class
Advice, Ancient Grains
Sep 10, 2013
I am going to share a tip with you, a tip that thus far I have managed to keep to myself but that will benefit you enormously, whether student or amateur sociologist or writer for The Economist.
No matter what time period you are referring to, no matter what country or region of the
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