After a good 3-month run, it was time to say goodbye to the beard.
Skin is so smooth, but my chin feels naked, and I’m reminded of how big my nose is.
Disney lifts long-standing beard ban
Okay, they’re only allowing 1/4-inch of growth, but progress is progress, right?
“It’s about time,” Foglesong said. “For the people who work at Disney there are lot of rules and regulations, and some might say its oppressive upon them but that’s all intended by the company to produce a predictable typical type product.”
(h/t: Jake B)
Reflections on the gloriousness of having a moustache
Great inspirations, in gearing up for the 2011 growing season of Mustaches for Kids DC! (Who’s with me!?)
I’ve had the privilege of working with this group on an amazing (And amazingly fun) fundraiser for a great cause. We’ll be starting our 2011 campaign in a couple of weeks. And all you have to do to take part is grow a mustache (or convince some friends to do grow them). Who’s with me?
It’s been almost a year, and our upper lips are getting restless. We’re very excited to announce the 2011 growing (and fundraising) season for Mustaches for Kids DC, which will run from November 10 to December 8!
Last year, we were able to raise $56,000 for the Kid’s Care Fund at Children’s National Medical Center, thanks to your mustaches, generous donations, and moral and/or logistical support, and this year we’re looking to make it $66,000 (or more). There’s a buzz growing about M4KDC (and not the buzz of a mustache trimmer), and we’re getting ready to get started.
“How can I get in on this year’s ‘stache-raising?” We’re glad you asked:
- Register on the www.m4kdc.org site, as a 2011 grower (by clicking on the “Register” tab, above, and then set up your online fundraising page at:http://firstgiving.com/CNMC/m4kdc/fundraisers.html (check on url).
- Can’t grow a mustache this year? Help us by reaching out to recruit other potential growers (friends, boyfriends, husbands, bosses) and telling them about not only what a great cause this is for, but also just how dashing they’ll look in a 4 week-old stache. If they’re still not convinced, we’ll have a Mustache Meet and Greet on Thursday, November 3rd to help them to stop worrying and learn to love the ‘stache.
- Check out our new facebook page at www.facebook.com/m4kdc, and give it a “like,” and share it with your friends. Many of you have been part of our facebook group in the past, but given Mark Zuckerberg’s latest machinations, the new page will be the best way to keep up on our events, fundraising tips, and amazing mustache trivia and swag.
I’m cool knowing that I’ll never achieve this kind of beard, but I respect it nonetheless.
(Source: placesthatpull)
Facial hair propaganda (perhaps my favorite kind of propaganda).
from the Beardreavement series at THE BEARDLY.COM
(via wooliebear)
The Beardly: The Beardly measuring t-shirt
Because all beards should be striving for something.
(h/t thedailywhat)
The Best Facial Hair in the Civil War | Smithsonian Magazine
There are some I’m not sure how you can pick anyone other than Ambrose Burnside, who in addition to being a native of my hometown, had the only facial hairstyle named for him (sideburns).
Now, it’s not the best overall Civil War era namesake (that, of course, would be the questionably-factual General Joseph Hooker), but easily the best hairstyle name..
(Thanks to Liz for passing this along).
I am enjoying the clean-shaven look for the moment, but don’t think for a minute that the World Beard and Mustache Championships have been removed from my bucket list!
(via World Beard and Moustache Championships - in pictures | World news | guardian.co.uk)
Beard gone, at last.
EAST WENATCHEE, Wash. - A teacher who vowed nearly 10 years ago not to cut his beard until Osama bin Laden was captured or proven dead said he cried Sunday night upon hearing of the terrorist’s death.
“I spent my first five minutes crying and then I couldn’t get it off fast enough,” said Gary Weddle, 50, who lives in East Wenatchee but teaches middle school science in Ephrata.
Weddle has wanted to cut his beard for years. His wife, Donita, has wanted him to cut it, too. But for Weddle a vow is a vow and so he hadn’t even trimmed it until Sunday night.
Weddle was a substitute teacher in Wenatchee when the infamous al-Qaeda terrorist attack occurred on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, killing 3,000 Americans. Weddle was so caught up in the news that he neglected to shave. A week or so later, he vowed not to shave until bin Laden was captured or proven dead. He figured it would just be a month or two.
At the start of each school year, Weddle told his students the beard was a reminder of the attack. He frequently said he didn’t understand how anyone could use the name of his God to justify murder.
(via think4yourself)
A field guide to Beards, in case you wanted to know the difference between a goatee and a Van Dyke, once and for all. Or if you’re on the lookout for a new personal look.
“William Shakespeare. Abraham Lincoln. Santa Claus. Behind (well, slightly in front of) every great man, lies a great beard. And now you too can join the ranks of the most illustrious beard-sporting gentlemen of history. Find out what each beard says about its wearer, which one will make women fall at your feet (and not run for the hills) and most importantly, which ones will get crumbs stuck in it. With marks on each one’s ease of grooming, growing and its potential to grate, whether you want to sport a French Fork or a Fu Manchu, a Soul Patch or a Chin Puff, we have the lowdown on the right set of whiskers for every occasion.”
(via brain-food)
10 signs your beard is getting too long. (I’ll have to remember these for the next time I stop shaving… can anyone say Furlough-Beard?)
via chuckhistory:lorenrochelle
(via gjurich)
“A wise woman — I think it was the Millionaire Matchmaker (or maybe it was my sister) — once said that men hide their insecurities behind facial hair. Well, that’s just one theory. Other men see beards as an outlet for creativity. Every few years, such men from around the world congregate and compete at the World Beard and Mustache Contest.” — NPR’s Claire O’Neill
As one who is getting ready to part with my own beard (for the time being), I reject the insecurity theory.
In what has to go down as one of the all-time great moments of political image consulting, an 11-year old girl suggested to a fresh-faced Abe Lincoln that he grow a beard. And then he did. The website Letters of Note even has copies of the girl’s letter and Lincoln’s response. Beyond being the cutest historical footnote of all time, Ms. Grace Bedell, had some solid reasoning behind her request.
“I have got 4 brothers and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you,” she wrote, “you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.” [emphasis added.]
