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Mustaches Live Again, Good Taste in Death Throes
January 08, 2009 at 11:38am
From Beard to Mustache 2006 Here's what I think but I have yet to collect the data to support it, but I believe we have come into a time where man needs to embrace and express his manliness with keeping the soft, sensitive, and consciously aware self that he has been able to come to terms with since during the time of the metro-sexual. The beard represents masculinity, rebellion and a dis-concern of the superficiality of a tidy appearance. It has returned to be a statement of freedom. I am sure it is influenced by today's current political condition. Perhaps even, subconsciously, the media attention to the Middle East and the images of bearded men has inspired the sporting of such facial hair. In the seventies, we had the hippy beards and the east coast intellectual professorial beards. Today I believe it is a combination and men are ready to express it. What does this have to do with morphing you ask? Well, as in past beard explosions, as with all trends, people will tire of it. What will follow? Naturally the mustache. Though I see the mustache as an inevitable fashion, I do hope the beard stays and has time to grow and all men across the country will allow themselves this very and unkempt form of expression. That is it in a nutshell, and of course open to debate.

Married in Manhattan
January 08, 2009 at 11:28am
imagine how much revenue the city would make if gays were allowed to marry -- would be worth it, don't you think?