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Today I left the ranks of the few and the proud. I went back to life as usual, my lip undecorated and I am a lesser man for it. So in honor of my former moustache who was given up in the early stages of his life, today I post a list of other men, good and evil, who wore their staches with pride and left their mark on the world.

Note: The moustache has been getting a bad rap these days for the being the facial hair of choice for motorcycle cops, carnival workers, and our fathers in the seventies and early eighties. This is a shame. It was once used in the British military as a form of rank and prestige and so I present this listing of the famous patrons of the stache, to remind people of its place in history.

Albert Einstein- Father of quantum physics, Star of the film IQ with Meg Ryan, Jewish
Groucho Marx- Comedian, grew up in a Jewish neighborhood

Charlie Chaplin- Silent film actor, Communist
Joseph Stalin- Leader of the Communist Soviet Union

Errol Flynn- Actor, The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)
Veerapan- Bandit, Considered the Robin Hood of India

Friedrich Nietzsche- Originator of the Übermensch or Superman concept
Adolf Hitler- Fascist dictator, Believer in the Superman concept

Emiliano Zapata- Mexican Revolutionary, Known as a fancy dresser
John Waters- Filmmaker, Known as a total weirdo

Theordore Roosevelt- President of the United States, Spoke softly and carried a big stick
Georges Clemenceau- Prime Minister of France, Spoke softly
Rollie Fingers- Don’t know how he spoke, Pitched to a big stick

Mark Twain- Great American Novelist, Wrote about riverboats
Burt Reynolds- Great American________, Starred in the television series Riverboat (1950)

I’ll end this post with a collage of moustaches, mostly because I can’t think of something whitty and secondly, my brother told me over thanksgiving break that I don’t use enough pictures.

AP news reports that my mustache is not growing in very well, mixing light peach fuzz with dark hair to create what looks like I shaved in front of a foggy mirror.

This all points to the fact that I may have chosen the wrong stache for my personality type.

How would I know? I used the mustache calculator created by Brian Smith.

Brian Smith, an ache of the moust expert, is a design student at UCLA and a friend. He created this as well as other great works for a interactive media class.

Watch the Ultimate Power of the Stache, to help you gain the confidence to grow the finest of all mens body fashion items.

I started growing a mustache this week for a college dance I’m going to. The theme is “A Night in Paris”, which is the dumbest theme i’ve ever heard of but we won’t get into it as I have already severly offended my girlfriend on every level, by tearing down her school, friends and other things she holds dear. So, I grew the mustache figuring all french have thin upper lip mustaches, wear berets, don’t shower, and mask it all with heavy cologne. Fitting in the theme came down to not showering or growing the lip decoration, so I chose the stache.

I have now decided to keep the mustache after tonight’s dance for severals reasons.

One, its my way of rebelling against my girlfriend for making me attend this event.

Number two, is the important one. I was talking to a friend and I told him I was growing a mustache and he quizically asked me “just the stache?” This prompted me to think back when I grew a beard during last holiday season in order to inspire my filmmaking.

Taking a moment to philosophize(?), I answered, the beard is creative, but the mustache it’s…intellectual.

An organization called the Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment or H.O.P.E. is giving the world the a second chance and offering forgiveness for peoples musical sins. In light of the sad state of music, caused primarily by MTV and major record labels, H.O.P.E. is allowing misguided followers of Ashlee Simpson to trade in their CD’s in exchange for a CD of quality music.

This list includes Brian Wilson who is on the label Rhino records, one of the sponsors of the great musical reformation.

Honestly people, Ashlee Simpson? You listen to someone because they are someone else’s little sister and you can watch them ACT on a reality show?

Brintey Spears is like my 4th cousin, can I get a reality show and a CD?

Check out the H.O.P.E. website

I had to go back to the hobbit man because i keep re-reading it and finding new gems. Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

“The hobbit was nobody’s fool”

“Both the tiny humans and the dwarfed elephants appear to have become extinct at about the same time as the result of a major volcanic eruption.”

“Homo floresiensis is an addition to the short list of other human species that lived at the same time as modern humans.”

“The blades, perforators, points, and other cutting and chopping utensils were apparently used to hunt big game.”

Only if J.R.R Tolkien was alive to know that he created a term that would define scientific exploration for the 21st century. This last one is an ACTUAL researcher and scientist:

“So there was temporal overlap between the hobbits and ourselves from at least 40,000 years ago until at least 18,000 years ago—more than 20,000 years minimum.” -Richard Roberts, a geochronologist at the University of Wollongong, Australia

I’d like to add my own commentary to each quote, but right now…words can’t describe my joy