Mo’tographer, Carol Browne, should be congratulated as she undertook great personal risk in getting today’s Mo’ Photo. The wearer did not keep up his usual caffeine and aspartame intake and was, clearly, on the warpath at the time of this photo. The lack of his addictive substances and fuzzy thing on his face made him particularly insane today.
I’m not sure why I am talking about myself in the third person, but am sure it is a clear sign that my cheese has finally slipped all the way off my cracker. I am very glad there is only a week left. I should be given a medal for this.
Sorry for whining.
Here’s today’s Movember related moustache video. I don’t drink but this is still amusing:
Hey I used to have an outfit just like that. It can be seen, turtleneck, tweed jacket and all on the family room wall in my parents house for everyone to throw up at.
WTF? The Canucks lost the game tonight 1 – 0 against the stinkin’ Blackhawks. That makes me sad and cranky in the mo’. I don’t have much to say other than I have to wait until Thursday to watch them play again. Boo!
Oh well, at least I didn’t have to colour my mo’ like Michael Allison from our team, although he’s raked in a whopping $1000 for donations. Way to go Nice n’ Easy.
Whatever, here’s tonight’s video courtesy of Gus (and Movember Canada), also on our Movember team:
Carol took a full headed mo’ progress photo this evening while were out at the fundraiser for my new job at DOXA. We had a good time but here’s a particularly creepy looking photo of me:
I apologize. I am sure you did not want to see that.
Last night was got sent a great video from PhilipCantone on twitter. It’s by the Mustache Kings from Tickle Strip Express (love that album title):
So the spelled moustache without an ‘o’. I can forgive them, though. That’s pretty funny stuff.
Ooh! Fuzzy wuzzy! I think the mo’ is a good luck charm for the Canucks. After a shaky first period the boys laid the smack down on the stinkin’ Avalanche for the second game in a row.
Maybe I’ll keep it until they win the Stanley Cup this. It’ll be quite the fu manchu by that time.
I am fairly sure I’ll be waxing it vigorously. I said waxing… my moustache, I mean.
Today’s video comes from Tanya and friends over at Bluefinch Creative Inc., it’s titled Bashful Bladder:
Pretty good stuff. See my comment on the Bluefinch blog post titled The Real Movember for more of my thoughts on this video. Don’t forget to sign up at memelabs.com/movember to vote for the video. I did.
Today’s picture is below. I am happy. I got a job today. What a relief. Now Carol doesn’t have to listen to me whine, at least not about that anyway.
As well we went out to the Movember Tweetup and shook hands and had a few laughs with some of our fellow mo’ bros and sistahs — all very nice people just as I suspected. It’s funny how generous fundraising types seem to be nice. Weird how that works.
There are some pictures of the evening over on Carol’s blog.
The mo’ is growing both on my face and on me. I guess I am past the itchy stage, even though it still feels a little dirty and I think I can taste cheeseburger in it.
Perhaps it’s a good luck symbol that I should cultivate. Although I was asked by my new employer, in jest of course, when I would be losing the moustache.
Maybe I’ll join the Handlebar Club:
Maybe not. I don’t meet the beer drinking requirement. Oh well, you can’t win them all.
Before I get going, don’t forget to enter the Official Movember Cuff Links Contest. Some of the photos I am seeing as entries thus far are hilarious. We will be out at a fundraising event event tomorrow evening taking photos of mo’s in the wild for entry into the contest. It should be a good time. If you’re into it come on by and dip your upper lip!
While Carol was taking my daily mo’tograph I decided to smile a goofy smile. This is how it came out:
I think it makes me look like Gabe Kaplan from that horrendous old sitcom (that I loved when it was first airing) called “Welcome Back Kotter”. If you don’t remember it, or weren’t even born, here’s the premise:
The show starred comedian Gabe Kaplan as the title character Gabe Kotter, a wise-cracking teacher who returns to his high school alma mater—the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn, New York—to teach an often unruly group of remedial wiseguys known as the “Sweathogs.” The school’s principal was an absentee; the uptight vice principal dismissed them as worthless hoodlums and only expected Kotter to attempt to control them until they inevitably dropped out.
However, Kotter had attended the same remedial classes when he was a student at Buchanan and was a founding member of the Sweathogs. Recognizing that he is those students’ last chance to have a decent enough education to allow them to survive beyond school, he soon befriends them while they learn to recognize and appreciate his commitment to them. This extended to his students often visiting his Bensonhurst apartment, sometimes to the chagrin of his wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman).
Most of the major characters of Welcome Back, Kotter were based on actual people from Kaplan’s teen years as a remedial high school student in Brooklyn. As a stand-up comic, one of Kaplan’s most popular routines was “Holes and Mellow Rolls”, in which he talked in depth about the kids with whom he had attended remedial education classes. The names of three of the four major characters in Holes and Mellow Rolls were changed for the TV series: “Vinnie Barbarino” was inspired by Eddie Lecarri; “Freddie Washington” was inspired by Freddie “Furdy” Peyton; and “Juan Epstein” was partially inspired by Epstein “The Animal”; only “Arnold Horshack’s” name remained unchanged (although on television, it was never mentioned that “by the third grade even the teachers called him Arnold Horseshit”). [source]
Part of the shtick every week was for Mr. Kotter to tell his wife a really corny joke. Here’s a particularly racist one I am better Gabe Kaplan wishes he could take back:
This mo’tograph looks like something you would see on the news in regards to a smarmy individual abusing himself in the bushes outside zoos. If you see this man, please call the SPCA…
Ok, it’s not really that bad, but I hate the way it feels on my face. I am so looking forward to December 1st when I can rid myself of this grim thing. It actually looks like it needs a trim.
Here’s today’s video. I whipped it up over at xtranormal.com. Meet Dirty Dave Sanchez, here he gives his take on Movember:
This thing on my face is starting to itch and feels quite dirty. It took every ounce of my resolve not to hack the thing off my face this morning while shaving. I did have a job interview too, but, as they were forewarned about my creepy school teacher look, I could not use that as a valid excuse. Here we have today’s yuckiness:
Thanks to Arbitrage Clothing in New York one lucky person will be sporting a pair of official Movember Cuff Links designed by Movember founder, Adam Garone (on twitter), and Arbitrage Clothing founder and designer, Alan Chan (on twitter).
Speaking of Alan Chan, He graciously answered some questions via email about his company, the cuff links and Movember:
It has been 15 days since I started growing the mo’ for Movember. We’re halfway through the month and my face is itchy and feels dirty. I have an interview for a gig tomorrow and have already warned them that what they are going to see is not my typical presentation. Meaning, ignore the fact that I seemingly have forgotten to wash under my nose.
Looks rather ethereal tonight. My official mo’tographer, Carol, cannot restrict herself to the plain old forensic looking straight on moustache shot and has to get creative. Although nice it doesn’t really show of the mo’. At least I don’t look fat.
People have been asking me for more information about Movember and where the money from donations actually goes. Here’s the Movember Canada Impact Video 08 / 09 to give you more information:
