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VIVA LOS STACHES

Mustaches4Michigan is still kicking around, reading MGoBlog, but lurking. FWIW, we do have ironic coffee mugs from Urban Outfitters with mustaches on them (and a matching pint glass, too). 

 

We do suppose that if ever there was an Opener that could benefit from the power of the 'Stache, it would be Alabama. Mustaches4Michigan has a 100% success rate -- with recorded wins against WMU and UConn. So chew on that, ya'll, as you consider bearding up in August and shaving down to a glorious mustache come September 1st... Ironic coffee mugs from Urban Outfitters are not a substitute, for the record. 

Mustache, man. Mustache.

And you thought mustaches only helped win season Openers... 

Mustaches. 

Mustaches. 

This Thread

Makes our heart swell, our eyes well up, and our breads ravenous for Huskie meat. 

+1's all around. 

Don't forget to snap some photos of those glorious Mustaches for Michigan and send them our way on Game Day: mailto:[email protected]

For those that think their wives don't want them to grow mustaches, just a reminder from your friend and ours, the Old Spice Commercial Guy: 

Kudos to you, sir. And we mean the actual candy bar.

Misopogon killed it with his post! It is everything you've come to love and expect from one of MGoBlog's favorite diarists: a heavily research laden post with data that suggests awesomeness. 

To block quote: 

Of course, not every mustached high schooler ends up summarily awesome in college. From 2002 to 2009 I found five or six guys out of 40 with high school mustaches who weren't All-Americans, NFL players, All-Big Ten, or extremely valuable, or did not generally meet or exceed expectations.

If anyone else is interested in penning a guest post for Mustaches for Michigan, please drop us an email with your pitch: mailto:[email protected]

Your beard needs fed

Clearly that's why you're a touch cranky, David. We like to feed ours shots of wheat grass and babies of a Spartan genealogy. Oh, the wheat shots have a vitamin c immunity boost.

For half of the originating members of M4M, the dreams have already begun. This, we figured since it is an annual occurrence, must be a widespread phenomenon among fans. Our beards are truly happy to see this topic presented as it's always nice to know were not alone.

So dream on, MGoCommunity. May your beards in August and that Stache on Sept 4th make those dreams come true.

Uh, yeah, what he said.

Totally what we were going for...

Sadly, it appears that we aren't better than that. Looks like the beard took a snooze and let our normal moron brain pilot the ship... Hey, the 'r' is next to the 'l' right? No? Shitballs. Damn you moron brain!

What does Woolfork have in common with Michael J Fox?

In case you missed this on monday: 

http://www.mustachesformichigan.com/2010/08/26-days-to-go-troy-woolfolk-has-hairy.html

that's the plan. grow the

that's the plan. grow the beard, feed it small children that will grow up to be State fans. and come time for kickoff, shave it down to that beautifully bristled mustache. 

this system of beard growing to cultivate a mustache on the sly was adopted to not get fired or look like a child molester in supermarkets. but if you feel like you can rock a stache full time, man, we salute you. 

the huskies can put as many helmets in their weight room as they like, nothing though, can stop the unstoppable force of mustaches grown for michigan. 

also: danny hope. total douche. 

Ha

Does it look like I have too much time on my hands?  Ha, I'm happy to report that I am gainfully employed, in the television industry in L.A.  (I was a film major, actually)

 

Thanks to everyone for all the great comments.  Get those beards started, and make sure to check out    www.mustachesformichigan.com    for daily posts in the month of August.

Go Blue.

A Call To Upper Lips!

linked: http://www.mustachesformichigan.com/2010/08/33-days-to-go-call-to-upper-lips.html

And he's killin' it. That's a

And he's killin' it. That's a beard we should all aspire to. Grow Blue indeed.

Lack of Mustaches

UConn doesn't stack up well against the sheer number of mustaches that will be grown for Michigan. Don't have the exact stats but it's pretty heavily skewed in our favor.

on a scale of 1 to mustache

we are growing mustaches as a testament to our fandom. so there's that. 

 

feel free to join us.

This, in terms of story and

This, in terms of story and character arc, is a great point when thinking about the ending:

This also leads to a bigger question.  If Cobb is happy at the end, then regardless of where he is, is this not his 'reality' even if it is a dream state?  It's all in the perspective of the person.  

we have followed this character for two and half hours who needs to reconcile his wife's death. this is Cobb's internal goal (story). regardless of the outcome of the external goal (plot) -- he needs to do this one last job so he can return home -- we feel satisfied because his journey has an ending. the character's arc is now complete, he's lets go and recognizes he needs to move on, forgives himself for being responsible for her death. so, whether the top stops spinning or not, Cobb has completed his goal and his story ends. 

however, if there's one ding on Inception it's that, with all the beautiful swiss-watch-like crafting of the plotting and construction of the world, special effects, and all-out-badassery, it's that this moment of realization is not emotionally satisfying. Cobb explains to her: i can't imagine you like you are with all your complexities, you are only a figment of my imagination and i've done the best i can. in a way, its that swiss-watch precision -- it makes logical sense for an emotional resolution, but its written in a sterile, clinical fashion with all the warmth of Ikea instructions. 

but again, that's just how my beard feels about it. 

if they let the sedative run

if they let the sedative run its course, then they'd be in level 3 for a decade. that's why it was imperative that they didn't miss the kicks. or at least that's how my beard understood it. 

grow an awesome mustache and

grow an awesome mustache and grill something bovine.

And only 18 days until the

And only 18 days until the bearding begins... For those who like to break up the time into smaller, more manageable, mustaching units. 

T-Shirts

Interesting idea, Ryan. Last year we four founding members had custom t-shirts made up for WMU... If there's enough interest, t-shirts are something that we can explore. Perhaps we'll work up a design and set up a poll/voting system on the website... Check www.mustachesformichigan.com in the coming weeks as we get things put together. 

yep. that's the link, thank

yep. that's the link, thank you sir. like so:

To quote from ourselves from

To quote from ourselves from last year

Ah yes, the Buckstache. The calling card of criminals, vagabonds, and ne’er-do-wells. So you might wonder....why would we willingly wade into these mustachioed waters? Be not afraid, the answer is that you will notice a fundamental difference between the wispy, unkempt trashiness of what our Southern counterparts call facial hair and The Michigan Man’s Mustache.

We simply hold ourselves to a higher standard of 'stache. 

Consider it a dry-run for the

Consider it a dry-run for the Opener. Remember, every 'stache is sacred, David.

you'll have your chance to

you'll have your chance to grow a mustache starting August 1st. 

Synthol Video

There's a clip out there (somewhere) of a bodybuilding contest where a contestant's shoulder springs a leak and starts gushing synthol on stage.  Nasty stuff.  

Gittleson's Background

Gittleson's school of thought (old school 1970's HIT from Art Jones, Dr. Darden, Dr. Ken Leistner, MSU's Ken Mannie, et al) has always emphasized neck training in football:

http://www.drdarden.com/readTopic.do?id=411888

A little surprised that the article mentions most schools don't emphasize this.

Good to see though, nevertheless!

PS. Mustaches For Michigan starts up in August!

Lion-O

Give me sight beyond sight!

Ahhh... '80s Cartoons (AKA, The Golden Age of Cartoons)

We actually read an article sometime ago on the why and how Saturday morning cartoons barely exist these days.

A brief list of favorites from M4M, in no particular order:

1) Ducktales
2) The Snorks
3) M.A.S.K. (the theme song from this cartoon could not have been more '80s)
4) Go-Bots
5) Transformers
6) Gummi Bears
7) Shirt-Tales (Shh-shh-shirt tales!)
8) Inspector Gadget
9) The Get-Along-Gang
10) Alvine & The Chimpmunks, New Adventures
11) SilverHawks
12) Denver The Last Dinosaur

Mustaches for Michigan's got

Mustaches for Michigan's got your back:

Link

It'd be awesome if we could

It'd be awesome if we could work the 6 degrees of separation and convince our entire secondary to grow mustaches. Some one with "insider ties" to the team get on this immediately.

Their mustaches will make the pick-six and then run it back too.

We at

We at mustachesformichigan.com started compiling a list of alumni bars before the season started. If anyone is so inclined, feel free to email us your game-watch locations to [email protected] and we can keep the list mostly current.

That aforementioned list can be found here: http://www.mustachesformichigan.com/2009/08/8-days-to-go-location-locat…

If you're already in Santa

If you're already in Santa Monica, or the west side in general, South is the place to be. As I mentioned, space is limited so plan accordingly. The general aesthetic is of your modern chic sports bar - tidy with flat scenes in good proportion to its size. The service was great and everyone was accommodating. There will be plenty of Michigan fans to watch the game with as it is our Official Alumni Bar. The Alumni Club does a raffle, and 10% of everything you order goes to the U-M So Cal Scholarship fund.

Nothing against South, it's just a heckuva commute across town. South is on Wilshire at 26th Street.

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South is fine and dandy, nice

South is fine and dandy, nice flat screens but not much in the way of square footage. Our Mustaches graced South for the Opener and have since returned to our former host at Hollywood Billiards (who gave all the Michigan fans shots on the house for the ND game).

If you're going to South, get there early - like a least an hour and a half early for the bigger games. Indiana, I wouldn't sweat the crowds too much. Also, make sure you seek out and talk to Todd Drucker, LA Alumni Club President and tell him how re-goddamned-diculous it is to only have ONE official alumni bar in all of Los Angeles... and decide to have that one location oh-so-centrally-located all the way over in Santa Monica.

As someone else mentioned theres a South Bay unofficial bar as well.

I was confused by this,

I was confused by this, too.

The hamstring pulls the tibia towards the femur, and is the equivalent of the biceps in the arm. If you're a bodybuilder, you do want this muscle to "bulge". First time I've seen hamstring referring to only the tendons behind the knee, and not the muscle as well...

Damn straight. She was in

Damn straight. She was in the audience and brought on stage by Springsteen...

Mrs. Cox

A few of us caught a glimpse of her on her set here in LA (the week prior to the Sept 5th opener). We were fully bearded. She was not. Our mustaches loved her, but our beards wanted to feed her food. She is a tiny, tiny woman.

Incidentally, her set is on the same lot as Scrubs. When our beards saw Dr. Cox in person, they withered in fear. He is not a tiny, tiny dude.

How's that for celebrity name dropping?

Need More Mustache

We are shocked and, frankly, appalled at the lack of Mustaches in your short list of items for the ND game tomorrow. Let's remedy that quickly, shall we? What's that? You thought the mustaching movement was only for the opener? Well, yeah, kinda... But the power of the 'stache prevailed! So lets once again channel our inner mustaches. For those with embarrassingly bare upper lips (how do you show your face in public?):

Print that out. Cut it out. Now wield that Mustache for Michigan like you mean it, son.

We at Mustaches for Michigan

We at Mustaches for Michigan compiled a short list of alumni bars in select cities where MGoBlog and Mustaches for Michigan followers will be heading come saturday:

http://www.mustachesformichigan.com/2009/08/8-days-to-go-location-locat…

We founders of the mustaching efforts will be at South in Santa Moncia. If you're in the LA area, have a beer with us. We'll be the one with the mustaches.

Michael Rosenberg and Mark

Michael Rosenberg and Mark Snyder do not have mustaches. They have never had mustaches. Several former or current co-workers at the Detroit Free Press corroborate allegations that they have had laser hair removal treatment, in violation of Mustache for Michigan regulations and men who are not pussies everywhere .

Not Mandatory

Rosenberg and Snyder have been heard, muttering from their effeminately smooth faces: Follicular workouts are voluntary, not mandatory. You can't force us to grow icky hair. When we baited and misquoted Freep junior support staff that didn't know of our slanted and harried agenda, we have found: "The...[hairless duo] have...receipts showing purchases...of (large quantities of) Nair."

Mustaches for Michigan failed to contact Rosernberg/Snyder to comment because, quite frankly, fuck them and their non-mustached faces.

Locations

We've started up a list of locations mentioned to be potentially harboring Mustache For Michigan alumni & fans:

http://www.mustachesformichigan.com/2009/08/8-days-to-go-location-locat…

If we're missing locations, feel free to let us know...

ply your brother with shots

ply your brother with shots of jaegermeister - lets say one for every touchdown during the game. when he passes out after after we hang 70 on WMU, draw a mustache on him with a sharpie.

grow blue.

get yourself a fedora hat,

get yourself a fedora hat, skinny jeans, a hanes v-neck tee, a coffee from intelligensia and you could be the Silverlake posterboy.

see you at South! We'll be the ones with the mustaches.

of course it looks like

of course it looks like website for the tampa club is down... maybe there's another poster out there that knows the tampa bay situation.

Try This

Usually the alumni association for your area will have the bar listed on their page:

http://alumni.umich.edu/get-active/clubs-and-affiliates/local-clubs/fin…

Where in New Orleans does the

Where in New Orleans does the Alumni Club meet for game watches?

While we would love the

While we would love the support for more Mustaches for Michigan, we understand that there are some that might have any myriad of reasons why you are unable to grow a 'stache. We've got you covered. Every 'stache is sacred.

Click here. Print out. Cut out. Adorn as needed.

We have seen pictures. That

We have seen pictures. That goat must be allowed to sprout from his face unfettered, and on gameday, mowed down into a flavor-saving instrument of justice.

Grow a Mustache

We suggest you grow a mustache. The answer to your dilemma and more will be elucidated by the all-knowing power of the 'stache.

Thank you

Thank you, we actually were thinking about posting a round up thread once per Friday to keep fellow mustachers abreast of the progress photos. Although we've come to understand that there is a minimum point barrier to cross in order to start one.

Follicly yours,
Mustaches For Michigan

Ditto

"Hell, the intimidation factor of the mustache army will outweigh the luxury box-induced noise increase"

We feel the same way...