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#Movember 12: Angry Ned Flanders

by Mike Browne on November 12, 2009

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The mo’ grows. It’s coming in pretty good now.

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I think I am starting to look a little like angry Ned Flanders from this Simpsons clip:

OK. So Ned really does have quite the mo’. I have a way to go to catch him.

Before I forget, like I did last night (I was frazzled from our cat’astrophe) here’s the reason I am growing a caterpillar on my lip:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

As today is the 12th day of Movember here’s some 70′s style p0rn music from Sesame Street to teach you how to count from one to twelve (and numbers in between):

I don’t feel like writing much tonight. I am tired and frazzled from dealing with the cat stuff. Ugh. Have a good night.

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#Movember 11: Moping Mo Mike

by Mike Browne on November 12, 2009

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My cat ate some yarn and needed surgery today (you can read more here). So, I am mo’ping as seen in evidence in the picture below taken by mo’tographer Carol.
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I didn’t shave the rest of the crud off my face today, but as you can see we’re growing again. I am kind of pooped out so I am not going to write a lot tonight. I do, however, have a little something up my sleeve (that is punnier than you know right now) about a Movember giveaway thanks to an email I got today from a mysterious man named Rory. More shall be revealed, if things work out.

Until then, here’s today’s Mo’ video. One of my favorite mo’ wearers. It’s Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) in Anchorman. He’s kind of a big deal:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

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#Movemeber 10: Rad Dude in a Jumpsuit

by Mike Browne on November 10, 2009

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I am listening to Led Zeppelin IV while I write this post, so, being under the influence of satanic 70′s rock and roll I cannot be held responsible for what you might see.

First my daily mo’gress photo, by Carol Browne, my official mo’tographer:

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The mo’s looking much better today. I think the spirit of Magnum sprinkled Rogaine on my lip in my sleep. Thank Magnum!

In the original you could see my closed eyes, protecting myself from the flash, but it made me look like a corpse so I cropped them out. Believe me it’s much better this way. Carol said she liked my pretty eyelashes. Being the macho man I am, having your wife tell you that you have pretty eyelashes is emasculating enough without the 3 people who read these posts seeing them too, so good bye.

Before I go off on a rant here’s the reason I am cultivating a porn ‘stache:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

Thanks to Arnie G for today’s donation to Movember.

I have determined that after Movember is over I am going to keep the 70′s look going afterward and perhaps grow a beard and get me a blue hooded jumpsuit and a chunky gold bracelet like this badass:

blue-jumpsuit

via Rad Dudes

I especially like the fit in the crotch. My slightly overweight frame should fill one of those out nicely. Look out ladies!

Speaking of bodies and macho men, here’s today’s video. You knew this was coming eventually. I am surprised I held off this long:

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#Movember 09: A Stripper’s Bits

by Mike Browne on November 9, 2009

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Ken, one of the generous donors to my campaign said I should start rubbing some rogaine on my upper lip as the growth appears to be slow. I really think that things have stalled. I am not sure what the problem is as my moustache usually grows like weeds. Perhaps my mo’ hairs have stage fright. They’ve never been photographed so much.

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Grow mo’ grow! Thanks again to Carol the mo’tography.

Here’s the reason that my upper lip looks like a stripper’s bits after a week of camping without a razor:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

Thanks today to Ken R and Andrea W for ponying up to help keep prostates cancer free. Great stuff!

Perhaps a little positive affirmation and visualization will help: “I have the hairy genetics of Sasquatch and Gene Shalit. My mo’ is growing out of control. I am tripping over my mo’. It tastes like week old soup!”

And I am calling in the big guns.

Magnum help my mo!

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#Movember 08: Your English Teacher

by Mike Browne on November 8, 2009

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I am turning into your grade 10 English teacher:

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I am no officially not enjoying the feeling of that thing on my face. I almost absentmindedly shaved it off this morning, but caught myself before the first slice. I do not want to fail at growing facial hair. That would be embarrassing.

There is a reason I am putting myself through all this:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

I wish to thank Audrey C and Dave B for their generosity in giving to the cause. Every little bit helps. Thank you so much!

One of my favorite examples of amusing moustachioed people is this video by, Queen. You’ll see what I mean once Freddy Mercury appears:

My mother was thoroughly unimpressed by my TV music video viewing choices upon seeing that one.

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We Are All Connected – Music Video

by Mike Browne on November 8, 2009

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Symphony of Science – ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com.

“We Are All Connected” was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music.

Check out “A Glorious Dawn” by Carl Sagan, another Symphony of Science project!

And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com

Click HQ to watch in better quality.

Enjoy!

John
john@symphonyofscience.com

Lyrics:

[deGrasse Tyson]
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically

[Feynman]
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax

[Sagan]
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature

[Nye]
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks

[Sagan]
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned

I find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we

[deGrasse Tyson]
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??

(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)

[Feynman]
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the other

And it’s all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature

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#Movember 07: Prickly and Creepy

by Mike Browne on November 8, 2009

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Below is today’s mo progress photo. I think I am starting to look like a dirty old pervert:

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It’s even beginning to feel dirty. I have had facial hair before and I know this stage passes. Regardless, it really is for a good cause.

The reason for the bristly yuckiness evident on my upper lip:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

This is what I fear becoming. Meet Larry:

Yuck!

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#Movember 06: The Reveal

by Mike Browne on November 6, 2009

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Ooh! Look. A mo is not all that I’m growing. There are accessories on either side of my head.

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Sideburns! I’m letting my hair grow a bit so I can blow dry and feather it a bit. Perhaps I am enjoying this a little too much…

What all the fuzz is about:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

I think I need a Camaro Z28 or IROC to complete the look. Let’s say 1986, one of the worst years:

Yuck. No wonder GM wants another bailout. They still feel ashamed.

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#Movember 05: A New Perspective

by Mike Browne on November 5, 2009

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Carol snapped a different perspective of the mo’ for his evening’s shot. Thought it best to shake things up a bit and not highlight the zit glowing like Rudolph’s nose in the middle of the frame.

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Still, that is a cavernous and oddly finger sized nostril you have there Mike. Yuck!

Here’s some information about the reason for the hair on my upper lip:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

We noticed tonight when the Canucks were pounding the tar out of the Minnesota Wild that there were players on that team sporting mo’s. My suspicions were confirmed by the commentators who made reference to Movemeber.

Several players are growing mustaches in support of Movember, which “changes the face of men’s health” and raises funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Cal Clutterbuck’s stache is in full force, and Petr Sykora is rocking the handle bar stache like Greg Zanon. Kyle Brodziak’s is slightly less apparent, and was the subject of much unprintable ribbing from his teammates. [source]

Even though the Wild suck at hockey (at least for this game) I will give props where due. Way to go Wild Mo Bros!

Today’s Movember related video comes to us from a couple of Mo’ Bros all the way from New Zealand:

Krango & Charlie: Kickbacks for Movember from Gustavfriends on Vimeo.

Krango and Charlie – Being a Bad-Ass cop Episode 1! New Zealand’s most bad-ass ’70′s cops in all new action shots! Check out ‘Kickbacks’, and remember, ‘It’s all about the Mo, Bro!’

David Krangel, (a.k.a. : Krango from Krango and Charlie) is also the founder of thefixuk.co.uk – sports event management specialists. For the month of ‘Movember’, ‘The Fix UK’ is organising ‘The Movember 10km Run’ in Greenwich Park, London!

Krango will be there. Charlie will be there. And we, gustavfriends, will be there filming the event!!

The race is being held on the 14th November 2009.
For full details follow this link: thefixuk.co.uk/movember10k.htm and to register, go here: thefixuk.co.uk/events/people.php?id=15

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#Movember 04: Mo Looks Ugly

by Mike Browne on November 4, 2009

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My mo’ has entered an uncomfortable adolescence. You know, those gawky in between years when it isn’t really clear what the heck you are going to turn out like. Here’s what I mean:

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That’s just plain horrendous. The moustache is bad enough, but add some matching nostril hairs and I look like a hairy youngster of Sicilian decent who’s parents are telling him to shave the ugly thing off his face. I really do hope this improves.

It is for a cause however, so I forge heroically ahead.

A reminder about why I am doing this. It is for a cause:

More information and how to donate to Movember: Movember 2009 Info

Anyway, here is today’s relevant video:

I’m getting a little mileage out of the Family Guy Moustache episode. Thanks Peter Griffin.

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