St Clement of Alexandria

Before BeardTober leaves us, a few more words of wisdom from St Clement of Alexandria!

• "The hair of the chin showed him to be a man." St Clement of Alexandria (c.195, E), 2.271
• "How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!...For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest--a sign of strength and rule." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.275
• "This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature....It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.276
• "It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man's natural and noble adornment." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.277

BeardTober is almost over, and Root Beard is pretty sad, although his wife is pretty damn happy. But let's face it - things are only going to go downhill from here.

On Halloween there'll be a special treat for everyone, and on MOvember 1st it's game on: I'll be going toe to toe to Tom Selleck. He may live in Hawaii, solve mysteries and wear lots of floral prints, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

Here's to cheating and doing MOvember right.

ps- Don't even say I look like Jokinen!

A Goat is born!

It's a beautiful thing when a goat is born. It's cause for great celebration and is an object of wonder and marvel. In this case not so much. Look close. Very very close, maybe even zoom in a little. And there it is. A still nameless but steadily growing goat. My new goat is a little ugly, and slightly self concious. To remedy this there has been talk that he and his good freind rootbeard will be undergoing a little makeover to boost thier confidence.

What's a Beard?

"There are two kinds of people in this world that go around beardless—boys and women—and I am neither one."- Greek saying

"A woman with a beard looks like a man. A man without a beard looks like a woman."

- Afghan Saying

"The beard is the handsomeness of the face, and a wife is the joy in a man's heart."

- R' Akiva, Eicha Rabbah

Leonato: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Beatrice: What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him...

- William Shakespeare - Excerpt from Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene I

"And yet your beards forbid me..."

- Banquo, to the witches, in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

"Shaving was a custom of the Macedonian military, taken over by Hellenic and Roman society. From then on the beard becomes a philosophical status symbol, a sign of non-conformism."

- Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason, pg. 210, n.4

Root Beard, Day 6

Butler, Day 1

We cheat. Join us. Girls Welcome.

We are the Snow-Mos. Last year there were only three of us on team Snow-Mo, and we certainly need to do better than that this year. If you're committed to Movember, you can join us, or at least support one of us with a Movember donation.

We cheat

Our Mo's were a little on the meager side last year (read pathetic). To combat this, we've decided to cheat this year. We don't want to hear about morals and ethics. We're going to cheat and there is no convincing us otherwise. So on October 1st we have officially start Beardtober and Goatober. We won't have Mos until Movember, but we're damn well going to have big bushy beards or goatees (read spindly, sparse facial hair) on the morning of Movember 1st when we shave 'em down to Mos.

Join Us

So join us. Start growing a beard or goatee immediately so you're ready for Movember. Even if you have ethics, we'll still take you, because we don't. So if you want to wait until Movember 1st like a good little girl or boy and then start growing, we'll still take you. Our only condition on Snow-Mo membership is that you don't let a razor touch your upper lip in the month of Movember, and that you think up a really, really witty name for said Mo.

Girls Welcome

You can join us even if you don't have Mo growing abilities. You would then be what we call a Mo-Sister (men need not apply). You can also raise money for the cause and call yourself a Snow-Mo. You don't even have to love Mo's to join us.