Spectacle: Will Frolick For Photos
Posted by Avril in Curiosities, fashion, spectacle on 15. Dec, 2010 | 2 Comments
Into every life, a little philosophic rain must fall. You know—the days when the tough questions settle in and it feels like things just won’t ever feel the same until you make peace with some kind of an answer. Questions like… “Does Queen Elizabeth ever wear pants? Does she even OWN any??” (Really. Does she?? [...]
Ask an Indian person
Posted by Anupa in Curiosities, Race on 15. Dec, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fact one: we here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet-topped defender of environmental justice (AND BLOGGING). Fact two: Chances are you know a brown person but may be [...]
Carrie Fisher has been slowing morphing into Roseanne Barr
Posted by Jef in Comedy, Curiosities, Television on 08. Dec, 2010 | 1 Comment
This ain’t just about the weight. (Although there is that.) Without sounding like a horror movie, this is about persona. About soul. Carrie Fisher has in her possession Roseanne Barr’s soul. And it’s transforming her! Everybody can wail that Fisher “looks unrecognizable” lately, but that’s only half true. Yeah, she certainly isn’t Princess Leia. She isn’t [...]
Ask a Chinese person
Posted by Simon in Curiosities, Race on 08. Dec, 2010 | 12 Comments
Fact one: we here at the Ashcan are a multi-ethnic motley crew. Think of us as the Captain Planet of blogs, with disparate elements from far-reaching corners of the world coming together to form a heroic, mullet topped defender of environmental justice. Fact two: I am bad at analogies. But the part about us being [...]
I think I need to move to the Netherlands
Posted by Anupa in Curiosities, Politics on 15. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
I know I have brown skin, but do you think the Netherlands, with its weird yo-yo-ing immigration policies and all, will let me in? I have a British passport! No longer just a land of wooden shoes, and cute houses (see above), canals and lax pot laws, the sudden desire to go Dutch was prompted [...]
