{"id":2086,"date":"2010-11-08T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:31:06","slug":"mustachioed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postdiluvianphoto.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/mustachioed-2086\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustachioed Like Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Selleck. Photo by Alan Light.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tom Selleck had a recurring role in the TV series “Friends” as Dr. Richard Burke, who was dating the much younger Monica. The guys saw him as “like the coolest dad ever” and, in the episode, “The One Where Old Yeller Dies,” they even\u00a0divvy up his cool attributes. Chandler gets “The Mustache.” That was nearly fifteen years ago, and Selleck was the last bastion of the mo’.<\/p>\n

In 2009 no fewer than\u00a0four\u00a0A-list actors furried their upper lip for\u00a0movie roles: Brad Pitt in “Inglourious Basterds,”\u00a0Robert Downey Jr.\u00a0and Jude Law in “Sherlock Holmes,” and George Clooney in “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” They did this not because it looks fantastic but because it has such a dramatic effect, partly because it is anachronistic.<\/p>\n

I’m no stranger to facial hair. As a student at UC Berkeley in the late 80s I had a full beard for a short period of time.\u00a0And in 1994 I grew a mustache and goatee for the role of\u00a0Count Rugen\u00a0in a local musical version of “The Princess Bride.” These days, like Hugh Jackman–who says photographers always want him scruffy–I run a beard trimmer over my face every few days.\u00a0But a mustache alone? Never.<\/p>\n

And then I heard about Movember. From their website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men\u2019s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean-shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men\u2019s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Donations gathered from\u00a0sponsers benefit\u00a0the Prostate Cancer Foundation<\/a> and LIVESTRONG<\/strong><\/a>, the Lance Armstrong Foundation.<\/p>\n

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\nAccording to Esquire, experimenting with facial hair is something men over thirty should not do, along with owning a lava lamp and helping a friend move. And I am… well, I’m over thirty. But for the record, this is not experimenting with facial hair. I knew<\/em>\u00a0it would\u00a0look funky. But you can’t wear\u00a0Levis to raise awareness about men’s health issues, for example, because no one would notice. A mustache makes you stick out like a sore thumb, and that’s the point. It’s like\u00a0the child in\u00a0“The Boy with\u00a0Green Hair<\/a>” (1948)\u00a0who learns in a vision of other war orphans why his hair has turned green:<\/p>\n

Everywhere you go, people will say… “There goes the boy with the green hair.” And then people will ask, “Why does he have green hair?” So you will tell them, “Because I am a war orphan, and my green hair is to remind you that war is very bad for children.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I decided to “grow a mo’ for a bro’,” and on November 1st I bypassed the\u00a0beard trimmer and shaved my mug smooth. It’s been a week, and… I’m done. It’s a worthy cause, but I’m no Magnum, P.I. Instead, I\u00a0hope I’m doing my small part to raise awareness through this blog post. If you’d like to help, please consider making a donation<\/a> for men’s health or spread the word yourself.<\/p>\n

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go shave.<\/p>\n

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The author, day 7<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Singman-Aste
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