Word: mohawked
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...weeks ago I was at this panel discussion listening to someone tell me how to be Asian-American. He was Chinese-American. He had a triangular mohawk. He had a snazzy floral-print vest...
Personally, I wish my mohawk-headed friend had taken more ethnic studies classes. Perhaps he would have realized the diversity of experiences in the Asian-American (not to mention Chinese-American) community, and not been so quick to lump them all together under demagogically convenient labels...
That's something I hope all people, Dean Knowles and my mohawk-headed friend included, can appreciate...
...essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...
Tank Girl's bleached blond mohawk is corn-rowed one scene, patently flipped the next. Even her eyes switch color, sometimes blue, then green, then one of each. Thank you, colored contacts! And yet we're spared the tedium of witnessing these transformations, exempt from time's progression and the mirror-time necessary to look as cool as Tank Girl...