Nick Ring is a Canadian UFC prospect, and I really want him to be gay
Posted by Jef in Sports, Television on 14. Sep, 2010 | 2 Comments
Everybody, meet Nick Ring. A mixed martial artist from Calgary with an impeccable professional record of 10-0. A participant in the last season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show. Probably would have won too, if he didn’t have to bow out with a bum meniscus for ACL surgery (he had already defeated Court McGee, the [...]
Men reclaim the leotard from fruity fruits
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture on 26. May, 2010 | 3 Comments
It should be common knowledge now that our modern North American constructs of sexuality are like non-Euclidean parallel lines. Although being a man and being a gay-man are often conceived as being separate train tracks, (assuming a line segment intersects both of them, which in this case we will label as “the line segment called [...]
Green Ranger FTW!
Posted by Jef in Curiosities, Pop Culture, Sports, Television on 02. Feb, 2010 | 3 Comments
In one of my earliest Ashcan posts I wrote about Jason “the Green Ranger” David Frank’s intended move into the world of mixed martial arts competition. I’m very proud to update that report with news that Frank fought his first match and came out on top, and more importantly that at least one part of [...]
Don't tell them to break a leg
Posted by Jef in Pop Culture, Sports on 03. Sep, 2009 | 0 Comments
Remember when you were a kid and you used to talk shit about Jean-Claude Van Damme? You swore you could kick his ass in real life because he was just a ballerina and probably French. Well, you were wrong on two accounts – he’s Belgian and a former middleweight full-contact Karate fighter. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t [...]
