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.
Carol and I attended the Movember Tweetup last week and got to meet a few of the fine folks from Invoke, the company that is behind HootSuite. I have been using HootSuite off and on for a while and more recently with meeting and chatting with some of the people behind it. Today HootSuite became, hands down, my app of choice for following and updating my social networks.
I noticed last night that the site was down for service upgrades and had expected something was up after some cryptic discussions with Invoke employees at the party and some banter on twitter last Friday between myself and Dario Meli, a partner at Invoke, I knew good things were afoot. I just didn’t know what. I had my suspicions, and was right on the money with a couple, but there was even more.
After a day of running around and not being near my computer, I came home and logged into HootSuite to see what I would find and was more than pleasantly surprised.
This graphic stolen from the HootSuite site and edited by me shows a list of the upgrades they made.
I figured facebook and twitter lists would be on the upgrade list, which is fantastic in and of itself, but the inclusion of the Ping.fm and LinkedIn services as well excited me a lot. Here’s a part of why:
The ability to schedule Ping.fm updates is particularly noteworthy since through it you can update most popular social networks (such as MySpace, LiveJournal, etc.) Scheduling status updates now has near universal applicability. [HootSuite blog]
What sealed the deal, making HootSuite the social media app for me was the promise of an iPhone app. I have had trouble finding the perfect social app for my phone. But if the goodness I have come to expect from the folks at Invoke continues to be consistent, I suspect the iPhone app will be a thing of beauty as well. Count me in for one download — sight unseen.
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:
I am definitely a soda pop lover. I know the dentist says it’s like giving your teeth a sugar bath but I adore it. I like real cane sugar pop, like those from Jones Soda. I am really sick of the Pepsi and Coke high fructose offerings and am grossed out by the taste of sweetener.
John Nese is the proprietor of Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lover’s destination. About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galco’s also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it).
What a cool place, interesting man and a great story. The next time I am in LA I will be checking out Galco’s Soda Pop Stop.
If anyone knows where to get a decent bottle of pop in Vancouver I would love to know. Please leave a comment.
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:
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