A friend of Amy’s happened to be at the beard contest. She asked him if he saw someone with a “beard” beard and he uploaded this video in response.
On Friday evening Kevin, Earl and I were out between watering holes, enjoying the late daylight and walking the streets of downtown Anchorage. Around the corner came a man just as we were taking some self portraits. He asked if we were in the beard contest and if he could take our pictures – that he was Adam Tschorn fromt he LA Times. I gushed “I’ve been reading your stuff!” which I really have been…
Here is his mention and photos of us. And the next day you can pick out Earl and I in the parade in the footage that Adam shot. In fact, if you look closely you can see Earl and i in the still frame for the video.
Look at this beautiful poster designed by Jason Nitti and Neel Williams for this week’s World Beard and Moustache Championships. I’ll definitely be coming home with a hoodie, t-shirt and poster of the totem design. I’d definitely buy posters of the other designs if they were available!
For months this one cute kid in first grade has told me to cut off my beard. I give him updates – “i will – in two months…” and today he told me to cut off the beard and i told him it would be gone next week. He looked sad and told me to keep the goatee but shave the rest. I told him it was probably all coming off – or at least the goatee would be very short and he once again gave a sad look and told me to keep it. So cute!
In other beard news, those of you that wish you could grow a beard are in luck. Erin makes felt and yarn beards and sells them in her imadeyouabeard Etsy shop.
Why am i so fascinated with beards? Could i be compensating for something? Perhaps my lack of interest in manly things like cars, sports, and watching TV all day? Could i need to prove my toughness after sitting in a bus full of Vikings and repairing a sweater? (No, really. That happened.)
In less than 24 hours Earl and I will be in Anchorage and meeting up with Kevin and on the 23rd we’ll spend hours hanging out with some of the world’s best beards and mustaches. (And the people they are attached to.)
Four months of chin growth, a bit of razor wizardry on the week’s scruff, a few moments with Cena’s hair straightening iron, a dab of palmade, and a little too much vanity makes for fun facial hair!
Lately I have been pulling my facial hair into a pony tail of sorts to keep it under control. The director of the TV show that i’ll be on for the cart bike really liked it. He shot some footage of it up close and asked some questions about it and the competition.
A few months ago I trimmed my beard down to just a thin goatee. It’s getting pretty long. This is what i’ll probably be entering at the World Beard and Moustache Championships. I have another 5 months of growth ahead of me. It won’t win any prize in the goatee category but the whole experience will be worth it.
On my new quest to grow every beard (and mustache) style possible I declare success with the Amish Style. Next? well, I trimmed it to a goatee.
My progress on the beard types
Josh can customize the name of accounts with Wells Fargo and he changed Earl’s to “I ♥ beards.” Looks like the heart icon didn’t work out. I’m going to have him customize mine too. Guess what my request was.
Beards account
If you have spent a few hours with me and my friends in the last six months you’ve noticed that a few times an evening the conversation turns to beards. I’m a bit torn on the category that i should enter but i have a good idea for a beard. I’ll probably end up doing something that uses my whole face but doesn’t require long growth. Perhaps the freestyle beard category — although i’m sure i’d never win. To the right is a silly image and a good description of the new beard category that i’m trying to get Earl to enter in — the Alaskan Whaler. Here are all of the categories that will be in the Anchorage competition.
I was just doing some stumbling on the web and found Jon Dyer’s blog where he chronicles his attempt to wear as many beard and mustache types as possible. He’s using the diagram below to guide his sculpting.
