Tank's Moustache March Blog

March 31st, 2008 seems like forever ago. It has been a long year and not necessarily an easy one for most. But that is why I am glad March 1st is finally here. The time when men around the world unite and enjoy all that is Moustache!

On the site, moustachemarch.com, we have a whole new look and new theme for the new year. Our own Mike coined the phrase “When Moustaches are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Moustaches,” which we decided to develop our year around.

I hope for your own sake that you will join us in this time of global uncertainty and honor something that is certain, the amazingness of Moustaches.

So, Sir David Baehler, one of our faithfuls and an uber MacFanBoy like myself pointed out something truly amazing to me. The guys at Sortuva Company (priceless name by the way!) have developed in my opinion the best iPhone/Touch App yet. ‘Stachetastic takes any picture and allows you to add over 15 different facial enhancements to it, most of which are sweet moustaches that I could never grow myself.

I decided what better picture to use as an example than my ‘single tear’ picture from April 1 last year(My wife is lucky I didn’t have a better portrait of her on my phone…)

Link to ‘Stachetastic in iTunes…

Well as you know I am pretty big fan of the month of March being dedicated to the Moustache but I just had to share Movember with you all.  I had heard of it before but have a friend participating this year.  I visited the website and was blown away by the involvement.  From what I can tell they have raised millions of dollars for Prostate Cancer Research and have a ton of participants around the world.  It looks like DC Shoes and Playboy are pretty big sponsors.

I decided to do the first ever Dad’s and Grad’s sale this year on the Moustache March site.  You all have that dad or grad in your life that lives or loves the ‘stache and what better way to show them you love them then by getting them a shirt(now $10) or bandana(now $2) from this year’s Moustache March store?

This was a sad week for many of us…Adam Carolla, even utilizing a unicycle and a moustache, could not impress America enough to stay on dancing with the stars. I was impressed by the performance although he does look quite stiff. Check the end of the video for a good view of the ‘stache.

Well this morning a coworker who shares the respect for the moustache told me he caught Jeopardy last night and informed me that Alex Trebek was once again sporting the moustache. I don’t watch much any more, it has just gotten too easy. This excited me to no end but then I found this blurb on wikipedia’s Alex Trebek entry:

In late 2001, during Jeopardy!’s 18th season, Trebek shaved the mustache that he had worn for over 30 years. He wore a fake mustache for the first half of the April 1, 2008 episode as an April Fools’ joke.

A cruel joke indeed. Oh well I guess I will have to cement Will Ferrel’s portrayal as my mental image for the time being.

While most of the world is busy playing pranks and telling funny jokes on April 1st, I am in a somber mood. Today my moustache came off. After 3 months of preparation and one month of pure enjoyment my face is bare. This year is even more drastic since I have no facial hair whatsoever and nary a hair on my head. I think this is the first time that my eyebrows have been so lonely in over two years, though I think my new found abundance of nose and ear hair are keeping them company.

So while your coworkers are finding their staplers in strawberry jello and gmail is telling you that you can change the date on your emails, I ask you to take a moment and think of all the moustache marchers out there that today can only look forward to next year.

As I post this blog I once again shed a single tear …

I got the privilege to sport a handlebar moustache for the past week.  Now, I have been growing my moustache since early december and still didn’t get the length I was looking for.  I think I have convinced my wife that I will need even more growing time next year.

Well as promised I will now give you a glimpse into life with a moustache and a mohawk.  I shaved the mohawk on a Saturday afternoon in anticipation of a cheap and saucy party I would be attending later that evening.  

So I am tempted to do a survey but I am pretty sure I don’t need to.  As a childhood male, what are the two hair features that are longed after?  If my memory serves me right it would be the moustache and the mohawk.