WWWD: Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Lightbox Movies, UFC for free,
Posted by Anupa in Concerts, Film, Toronto, WWWD on 15. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Kick up your heels, it’s Friday! Here’s what we’d do in the city (or, like, on our couch in the city) this weekend: Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Opera House, Oct. 15 True story, I once saw Mayer Hawthorne open up for Peanut Butter Wolf at a Stones Throw show a couple of years back [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fun with dead athletes!
Posted by Jef in Curiosities, Internet, Sports on 19. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Maybe this is morbid, but I’ve become totally fascinated by the halted-in-time blog kept by Evan Tanner, a former UFC middleweight champion and all-around inspiring guy who died last year. At the tail end of his career, he decided to venture off into the desert for some camping and self-reflection and unfortunately never came back. [...]
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 [...]
