Thanks to our undercover embedded correspondent in the bearded community for submitting this bit of glory.
For Internet Freedom! Share MLK’s copyrighted “I Have A Dream Speech” from Screenhugger on Vimeo.
The ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is, of course, a significant piece of Moustached American Culture. However, in an odd twist of legalities, the above copy is actually illegal. The King estate licensed the copyright to EMI, a British record company that is obviously run by bare-faced mortals who have never watched the speech itself, as they have tried to remove every copy from the internet that doesn’t result in a hefty paycheck made out to them. If the above video disappears, that’s what happened. No wonder our country is plagued by such difficulties if a foreign media company is allowed to hold hostage historical footage of events that shaped our nation! Share the above video. Post it wherever you can. Download a copy and give it to your friends.
Although he usually appears as a clean-shaven mortal, our research team recently uncovered evidence that Leonard Cohen has experienced the dynamic moustached lifestyle. And thus, the following (from his most recent album) is the soundtrack for today.
The actor & master craftsman Nick Offerman (who plays Ron Swanson on TV show Parks & Rec) would have gotten along quite well with Henri Gerbault.
I can find very little biographical information about French illustrator Henri Gerbault, aside from this cursory blog post. He is a character shrouded in mystery. His work is somewhat popular (although he died in 1930), but information about the man himself is scarce. I did, however, find a very poor quality photographic image which seems to indicate that he had a moustache. The image, unfortunately, does not meet our editorial standards for excellence, but you can see it here, along with an article in french which does me no good whatsoever (yes, I tried Google Translate. No, it didn’t work).
But of course, it’s obvious that he had a moustache. You can tell this by the subject matter of his illustrations, where frequently a curvy female form will be uncontrollably drawn to a gentleman’s stately figure and facial hair. Or maybe it’s the gentleman who is uncontrollably drawn. Either way, it’s obvious that Monsieur Gerbault shared the moustached American’s proclivity for the fairer sex, and realized the impact that moustaches have upon them. And with that, I will let his work speak for itself.
Via BoingBoing.
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/110912/
If your moustache has the blues, Little Walter knows how it feels. He even wrote about it in his lyrics for Got to Find My Baby:
“Now I’m gonna walk the floor baby,
’til my moustache drag the ground”
But somehow, on this particular Friday morning, Key to The Highway has just the right feel. But fair warning! You may find yourself, like me, wanting to dust off your harmonica and see where the road takes you:
In spite of the continued misuse of facial hair by corporate advertisements hawking soft drinks* and recent historical research suggesting that the legend of Santa Claus may have been started by people in a frozen wasteland who were hallucinating their balls off, we at Moustached Headquarters would like to wish our dear readership a very merry Christmas.
*Everyone knows that Santa drinks whiskey, not Coca-Cola. Sometimes on the rocks, but never diluted. In fact, as a general rule, if a man with a moustache tells you that he doesn’t like whiskey, either he is lying or his moustache is fake. And now you know that.
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