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A Beard With a Story

Here's the story:

There is a short beard-related documentary showing at the Pickford Cinema here in Bellingham. Being a beard enthusiast, I rallied my beard-o-phile friends together to go. Then I had the thought, "Hey, I'm due for my bimonthly shave anyway. Why not get creative for the event." I promptly called my buddy to borrow his hair buzzer.

Said buddy is a clowny fellow. And it just so happened that the buzzer exchange was going to happen at Vaudevillingham. Clown buddy decided that we should turn the ridiculous beard trimming into an act. I somewhat (but not really) reluctantly agreed.

The act was an audience plant act. I was the plant and I was to win the bid on a special hair-cut auction. When I got on stage, I sat down to get ready for my hair cut. Then out came Blinky. He brandished juggling knives, took a shot from his bottle of whiskey, then went to down on my beard. He climbed up on my knees, pretended to shave my legs*, shushed the audience, and generally clowned around.

And then I ended up with this beard. On the Trustworthiness of Beards scale, they call it a Horseshoe a.k.a. The Hogan and rate it "unsavory". If it is paired with oversized, yet mismatched, sideburns, I only imagine that moves it more to the "threatening" side of things. The upside is that after the movie, I'm free to shave it off. The downside is that that won't be until Tuesday.

Sunday April 18 2010

File under: beard

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on Sun 18th Apr, 2010 06:37 pm PDT Wren said:
The documentary was awesome. It was called "Enter the Beard". See the trailer here.
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on Sun 18th Apr, 2010 07:30 pm PDT katie b. said:
haha!!
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on Sun 18th Apr, 2010 08:07 pm PDT Mom said:
The Bearded Lady won't stand a chance against you clowns.
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on Tue 20th Apr, 2010 05:35 pm PDT Wren said:
The official photos are in. You can check out the whole series (as well as lots of other great ones from Vaudevillingham) at this flickr page. one's my favorite!
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