The hair on my mug does tend to grow quickly. I’ll have a real itchy mo’ in no time at all.
Like wearing a costume makes you instantly funnier (and creepier) sporting a moustache does tend to change one’s reactions to and perspectives on things. Listen to Peter Griffin talk about his mo’ to clarify:
Movember: an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.
It’s here. Movember. I am growing a mo’ (short for Moustache) as a part of a Movember Canada team called Twi’stache Vancouver. We are participating to help bring attention and maybe some money to aid in finding a cure for prostate cancer. If you like you can learn more, give some tax deductible cash to me via my donation page, to our team or even join the team and grow your own Mo.
It’s only day one. It isn’t too late. Yet…
I have shaved off the rest of my facial hair and this is what I am left with this evening (better than seeing my nude face this morning). Some stubble…
The fun has begun. I’m even sporting some bad smelling aftershave to heighten the effect for Carol. I think I’ll get some Hai Karate to take it to the limit:
Movember is the month formerly known as November where men start clean shaven and commit to growing a Moustache. That’s right, we are bringing back the Moustache this November to raise funds and awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer. [source]
That’s right I am growing a moustache to raise awareness, and hopefully, some money to help find a cure for prostate cancer. I my mo sistah Carol take a picture of my mo’ every day, starting on Movember first, and post it here on my blog with Movember related updates including the amount of money I have raised so far.
To date it’s $20 — from me! That was easy!
Here’s what you might see over the coming month:
I can grow a pretty mean mo’ but something tells me it might not be that big.
Check out this great intro video explaining more about Movember:
If you want to get involved you can join our team known as Twi’stache Vancouver captained by Chris Mathieson of the Vancouver Police Museum. If you’re a dude grow a mo’ with us and if you’re a chick love the mo’ growers. Either way we are going to have some fun.
If joining isn’t your thing you can make a tax deductible donation on my MoSpace page.
Shot on the Sony EX3 and Letus Ultimate in Rhyolite, Nevada.
Music is by Ennio Morricone from “Once Upon A Time in the West”
Vignettes and grade done of course with Magic Bullet Looks.
Making of coming soon… philipbloom.co.uk
A stop motion short film shot with a stills camera in the ceiling pointing straight at the floor. There’s tons of ‘making of’ stuff at the website sorry-im-late.com
I was Socrates that said, “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.” [source]
I guess he was right. Up until recently I’ve been just sleepwalking through life, going where the wind blew me and expecting the worst. My belief was, “Things are going to turn out shitty and I’m going to die eventually anyway. Why bother trying?”
Sounds like a lot of fun, right? Well not really. Life kind of sucked to tell you the truth. I did everything I possibly could to distract myself from life, essentially killing time until I keeled over from some horrible disease, a heart attack or sheer boredom.
I was playing online games obsessively and became completely lost. One day the thought came to me, “There has to be more than this. I can’t live this way anymore.”
Some of the things I am doing differently:
I canceled my gaming accounts, uninstalled my games and had a long hard look at my life.
I began meditating, doing affirmations and writing every day.
I began writing and sharing a gratitude list online, via twitter and facebook, every night before bed.
I continually look for things to be grateful for in every situation.
I am trying to do the ‘next right thing’ – doing what’s in front of me.
I take better care of myself (physically, mentally and spiritually).
I have cleaned out my space and gotten rid of a lot of extra stuff by recycling, trashing or donation.
I am remembering that the Universe is a friendly place.
I am practicing positive thinking.
I am trying to be helpful to someone every day – being of service.
I am doing something creative everyday and have a ton of new projects I am working on.
I do what I can to indulge in only happy thoughts – I don’t read a lot of news or gossip.
I am being more social and making new friends.
I say “thank you” a lot…
Things are much different. I feel like a new man.
I’ve put all the dreary, dark and depressing posts from this blog into a category called ‘old stuff‘ for posterity’s sake, but really there is not a lot there worth seeing.
As I am trying to practice what I preach I will only be posting stuff on this blog that makes me feel good and, hopefully, does not hurt anyone.
Gratitude Week Vancouver is happening from October 12-19, 2009.
What is Gratitude Week?
Gratitude Week is a vehicle for ordinary people in Vancouver to make something happen to end homelessness now. It is a way to enable individual citizens to do something tangible in the fight against homelessness. Our Provincial Government and the City are making enormous strides in providing long-term solutions to the problem. A number of non-governmental agencies and charitable organizations are also doing amazing work towards the same goal.We commend them for their work and support their efforts.
The missing piece has been the involvement of the entire community, rather than the committed few who have been doing wonderful work for so long with limited resources. Each one of us can do something today to end homelessness now. [source]
A sign of the times:
We all have something to be grateful for. Why not share? I’ve given, have you?
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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