Rather than see another boring-ass picture of me and my stupid moustache, seeing as today is the day the winner got chosen for the set of Movember cuff links from Arbitrage Clothing Inc., why not see a picture announcing who the prize goes to.
Chosen at random here he is:
It’s not the picture you sent me Marc, but this one from your website, marcmcpherson.ca, is much more amusing and truly captures the spirit of Movember. Marc wrote a great post, well worth reading, on his site about why he participates in Movember. Donate to Marc on his Movember page if you like.
As soon as Arbitrage gets those cuff links to me I will mail them off to you Marc. Congratulations!
A couple of honourable mentions
Stacey B, from Sacramento, CA for her wedding day mo’:
Aw! Isn’t that cute? That’s the spirit Stacey. Check out Stacey’s web site Pill’s Place.
Thanks to everyone who participated. There were some great entries. I wish everyone could have gotten a prize. Hopefully I will have more prizes to dole out next year!
Last night was the Movember Gala Parté at the Fortune Sound Club in the Chinatown district of downtown Vancouver. We were frisked quit thoroughly on the way in. They made me feel like some sort of terrorist. Perhaps it was profiling of some sort.
Not every arab is a terrorist you know.
The ghutra (or keffiyeh) I was sporting is the real deal as Carol used to live in Saudi Arabia. I wish I had a thawb to go along with it to allow the boys to have some air. Good for the prostate.
Movember is going well for our team. Last night, thanks to LG Electronics, our Movember teammate John Biehler won a whopping $5000 to put toward the cause. Here’s a photo that Carol took of him with the novelty cheque.
Very Happy Gilmore. Way to go John. That’s fantastic!
The reason the picture didn’t get posted yesterday is because Carol fell asleep as soon as we got home. She was pooped, so two pictures today.
I start my new gig on Monday. I jumped through all the hoops I had to. I am pretty grinny today.
Tonight the mo’ felt like snarling a bit. Billy Idol would be proud. If you’re too young to know who he is, that’s what google is for. I’ll wait.
The month is drawing to an end. Finally. I will soon be able to shave the mess off my face someone’s prostate may be saved from cancer and all will be right with the world again.
Tomorrow night is the Movember Vancouver Gala Parté. We’re going to party like it’s 1979! Here are the details:
Fortune Sound Club
147 East Pender
Vancouver
British Columbia V6C 2V6
November 26th
Start 8:00pm
End 2:00am
Judging: 10:00pm
If you want to buy tickets you can do so on movember.com. Come on along and watch people make fools of themselves. I’ll be the cool guy…
Speaking of off putting and angry men with hockey moustaches:
Yeesh. What is that, an ad for a prison hockey league?
A lot of police officers have moustaches. I have not been asked whether or not I was a cop in a very long time, if you know what I mean. If you don’t I am not explaining.
Not all cops have moustaches, but a lot do. Carol’s sister is a cop, but doesn’t have a moustache (I would hope not). You can probably figure out why very easily. If you can’t I don’t want to talk to you.
In this brief scene displaying mixed up crazy backwards day in the world of law enforcement from Police Academy the two cops DO NOT have moustaches, but the other gentlemen in the scene do. Can you tell who’s who?:
When I was a kid I did not understand what was happening in that scene. I guess it’s OK to laugh at the homophobic cops in the scene. The look of sheer terror on their faces is hilarious.
I love that song and will buy the mp3 if anyone can find it. I want to use it as the ringtone for my iPhone. But alas, I think that version was just made for the film.
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:
